Radical activists shut down @AuroraGov Council meetings.
Then came the lawsuits. Then began the settlements.
Now they want to control policing itself.
My latest @DenverGazette on how Aurora is repeating the Tay Anderson Era of Denver Schools:
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"It's a familiar playbook perfected by the former Tay Anderson and his allies during his time on Denver's school board — theatrical antics and intimidation over deliberation and accountability.
...With Anderson, Coates and Shofner, it's free speech and due process for me but not for thee. Aurora is following their playbook. A compliant council is letting them run it."
This line was the final disqualification for Scott Bottoms.
Anyone who literally admits they'll have a Jew hater in their administration so long as his role isn't "around Jewish people" — inherently acknowledging his antisemitism — has no business being governor.
GOP Gov candidate Scott Bottoms says he’d probably offer a role in his administration to his good friend Joe Oltmann, the MAGA podcaster who has called for the executions of the “Synagogue of Satan Jews” running Colorado.
“Assuming it’s not around Jewish people,” Bottoms said.
📺 In the latest episode of The OpEdge Podcast with @SengCenter, Gazette columnist @rachelwritesag says Gov. Jared Polis has ushered in an unprecedented era of tone-deafness to rural Colorado. #copolitics
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Radical activists shut down council meetings in Aurora.
Then came the lawsuits. Then began the settlements.
Now they want to control policing itself.
Jimmy Sengenberger writes the latest in The Denver Gazette on how Aurora is repeating the Tay Anderson Era of Denver Schools:
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"It's a familiar playbook perfected by the former Tay Anderson and his allies during his time on Denver's school board — theatrical antics and intimidation over deliberation and accountability.
...With Anderson, Coates and Shofner, it's free speech and due process for me but not for thee. Aurora is following their playbook. A compliant council is letting them run it."
The courts weren't finished with Tina Peters' case.
Her sentence was vacated. Resentencing hadn't happened yet. The appeal process remains active.
But @JaredPolis usurped the judiciary anyway — with a remarkable clemency letter.
My latest @DenverGazette:
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"Let's be real: Jared Polis couldn't honestly write that Peters was remorseful because she isn't. So, he copy-pastes that language for murderers and cop shooters but gives Peters a pass.
For Tina Peters, @GovofCO abandoned his own standard and disrupted an active judicial process — under the pretense of the First Amendment — to reach a predetermined outcome."
Phil Weiser took money from corporations and lawyers with business before his office — then gave them special treatment.
Coloradans deserve better than pay-to-play politics.
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If you didn't think @victormarx was disqualified (or at the very least unqualified) before the @9News debate, you must now.
@KirkmeyerforGov is clearly the only one of the three candidates who is credible and has the relevant experience and temperament. Doesn't mean she's perfect. But she's not insane. And she won't drive unaffiliated voters to vote against every Republican, or drive moderate and normal-conservative Republicans to just sit out the election.
Anybody who still supports Marx 1) doesn't care about winning, 2) doesn't care about ability, and 3) doesn't care about honesty.
Anybody who supports Bottoms, well, you're beyond help.
#copolitics @kyleclark@cologop
📺 Gazette columnist Rachel Gabel, editor of The Fence Post Magazine, says Gov. Jared Polis has ushered in an unprecedented era of tone-deafness to rural Colorado. In this sweeping OpEdge interview with investigative columnist @SengCenter, Gabel leaves no stone unturned over the issues facing rural Coloradans, warning everyday working people averse to politics, "If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu" at the state Capitol. #copolitics
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Radical activists shut down @AuroraGov Council meetings.
Then came the lawsuits. Then began the settlements.
Now they want to control policing itself.
My latest @DenverGazette on how Aurora is repeating the Tay Anderson Era of Denver Schools:
🔗 Link in comments 👇
"It's a familiar playbook perfected by the former Tay Anderson and his allies during his time on Denver's school board — theatrical antics and intimidation over deliberation and accountability.
...With Anderson, Coates and Shofner, it's free speech and due process for me but not for thee. Aurora is following their playbook. A compliant council is letting them run it."
Aurora's new council majority didn't just change direction — it changed who holds the wheel.
Jimmy Sengenberger's column in the Denver Gazette today names it clearly. Before you read it, here's the backdrop:
DACAC — the group at the center of this — is a chapter of a national Marxist-affiliated organization that has been running the same anti-police playbook for 50 years. They found a willing council majority in Aurora. The consequences are landing fast.
Aurora was Colorado's most violent city in 2022. Conservative-led council investment in proactive policing turned that around — crime down 26%, shootings cut in half. That progress is now at direct risk.
Aurora voters made this council in November 2025.
Read Jimmy's column. Then remember: the next election is the answer.
Register. Pay attention. Vote.
📺 In the latest episode of The OpEdge Podcast with @SengCenter, Gazette columnist Rachel Gabel, says Gov. Jared Polis has ushered in an unprecedented era of tone-deafness to rural Colorado.
#copolitics
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https://t.co/041eP3SNYQ
.@SengCenter: "The Lewis family recently dropped Aurora as a co-defendant in their lawsuit against Dieck. They then sued the city in a separate federal court filing, alleging systemic racial profiling and excessive force — having waited for the current, friendlier city council to take power in hopes of a more amenable outcome. If the generous Shofner settlement is any indicator, the plaintiffs are likely to get what they want." #copolitics
Radical activists shut down @AuroraGov Council meetings.
Then came the lawsuits. Then began the settlements.
Now they want to control policing itself.
My latest @DenverGazette on how Aurora is repeating the Tay Anderson Era of Denver Schools:
🔗 Link in comments 👇
"It's a familiar playbook perfected by the former Tay Anderson and his allies during his time on Denver's school board — theatrical antics and intimidation over deliberation and accountability.
...With Anderson, Coates and Shofner, it's free speech and due process for me but not for thee. Aurora is following their playbook. A compliant council is letting them run it."