Over the weekend, another accuser against Democratic former state Rep. Rochelle Galindo, according to Complete Colorado. Like the first accuser, the second accuser also is alleging sexual misconduct. The charge was filed last week.

The Greeley Police Department originally planned to release the report on the first accuser earlier, but now believes that the department will complete its findings by mid-week unless another victim comes forward. The new complaint delayed the release of the initial complaint.

Galindo originally resigned from her House District 50 seat after the first accuser came forward. At the time, she strenuously denied that the accusations were true. A second accuser makes her denials somewhat less credible. Galindo was facing a recall effort due to her unnecessary vote for Senate Bill 181, which has led several municipalities to pass moratoria on oil and gas development, a major economic driver in her House district.

The recall effort claimed it had collected more than enough valid signatures to trigger a recall election and had planned to submit them two weeks ahead of schedule.

Sadly, since Galindo resigned, instead of a recall election through which a Republican could have been elected, it is now up to the Democratic Party to replace Galindo via vacancy committee. Instead, the recall committee will focus on replacing the new Democrat in the 2020 election.

In the meantime, we eagerly await the report from the Greeley Police Department. No word yet on whether Galindo will be able to keep her position as a janitor in a school district. As a rule of thumb, school districts tend to shy away from employing those accused of sexual assault or misconduct.

Boulder is considering steps to reinforce its image as the proverbial grumpy old man on the front porch who’s always yelling at the kids to stop having fun, by considering a moratorium on electric scooters.

Not the kiddie kind, although they are considered toys by law, but the commercial kind that sprout along Denver sidewalks in the most inconvenient of places.

It’s an emergency order the city council will decide on tonight, because the hipster mode of transportation is about to be legal to operate on streets across the state, as soon as Gov. Polis signs a bill into law.

The Grand Poobahs of Boulder are concerned about safety and polluting impacts of these newfangled contraptions, so they need to form focus groups, conduct polls, hold public demonstration events — collectively referred to as “outreach” in Boulder speak

Not kidding.

We don’t care to co-exist with scooter-kind either, but we’ll be glad to see them get off the sidewalks and onto bike lanes.

While Boulder is rolling out the red carpet of regulations to stifle the free market, yet again, we’d be happy if folks would just learn to park the damn things, so the entirety of civilization isn’t constantly tripping over them.

We’re certain that could happen with a little education, instead of a temporary ban imposed by government over a growing new business.

In a unanimous decision, the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint filed against former Secretary of State Wayne Williams because it was outside the statute of limitations. Also, the complaint was totally frivolous. In fact, it was so frivolous that the folks who filed the complaint were the ones who asked that it be dismissed. Of course, this was after the complaint was used to smear Williams’ name in his Secretary of State run against the insufferable (and eventual victor) Jena Griswold.

According to the complainants, Williams was inappropriately reimbursed for his continuing education classes, bar association dues, and some clothes he was required to buy for the Denver Rustlers charity event. The complaint was dismissed because it was outside of the one-year statute of limitations.

At the time, the Secretary of State’s office vigorously fought the complaint and noted that these reimbursements had been standard operating procedure for years, making the complaint seem all the more petty.

While Commissioner Bill Leone complimented one of the complainants about his wisdom in withdrawing the complaint (since it was pointless), Leone also smacked the complainant down, accusing him of  “misusing the commission as a ‘political vehicle to tarnish someone’s reputation,'” according to Colorado Politics.

Either way, Williams is doing just fine. He was elected to Colorado Springs City Council recently.

Oprah Winfrey was in Colorado Springs Sunday to plug her book while delivering the commencement address at Colorado College’s graduation.

Seriously, she’s shameless:

Her legacy to the Colorado College Class of 2019 was not only being their Commencement speaker; Winfrey also personally handed each graduate a copy of her most recent New York Times bestseller, “The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose,” which features short essays on her life principles, peppered with quotes from luminaries.

Her speech was mediocre and uninspiring with offerings such as “life is about decisions,” and urging them to dedicate their lives to service.

But Winfrey wasn’t talking about the military or becoming the butler or housekeeper at Downton Abby.

She urged them to use that expensive college education to get a job protest stuff.

Take your pick, Oprah said, in ticking off a litany of today’s issues — gun violence, media bias, protection for “Dreamers,” homelessness, prison reform, misogyny and other societal ills.

“You will speak up. You will show up. You will stand up. You will sit in. You will volunteer. You will vote. You will shout out. You will help. You will lend a hand.  You will offer your talent and your kindness however you can, and you will radically transform whatever moment you’re in – which leads to bigger moments.”

And who should today’s graduates look to for inspiration?

Why that would be Marxist radical, militant activist, and former communist candidate for vice president Angela Davis, from whom Oprah borrowed this quote:

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically change the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

Winfrey’s insipid speech of radical transformation was radically outshined by the commencement address delivered by billionaire Robert F. Smith at the historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Colorado native gave those graduating students a gift of “liberation,” freedom from their school loans debts, which he will pay off through a grant he’s created that is estimated to cost $40 million.

In return, Smith urged the class to pay it forward to future graduates of the college.

Now that’s a legacy.

A new study released this week by the University of Colorado shows no significant change in U.S. methane emissions since 2006.  This time period coincides with a 46% increase in U.S. natural gas production.  Another inconvenient fact that you won’t find pundits yapping about on the network propaganda outlets.

This study, conducted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) showed methane emissions ten times lower than other studies claiming to measure methane trends.

Why such a vast difference?  The genius scientists running past studies to measure methane in the atmosphere were actually measuring ethane, and then erroneously extrapolating an out-sized increase in methane output due to oil and gas drilling. In fact, the CIRES study called out “major over-estimations of oil and gas emissions trends in some previous studies.”

It turns out that if you want to measure changes in methane, it is best to measure methane, and not something else.  Brilliant concept, unless you are a “climate scientist” with an agenda.

The CIRES study demonstrated that since 2006, methane in U.S. air was rising at the same pace as the world as a whole, demonstrating that energy production has no statistical influence on methane emissions in the U.S. Methane is mainly produced by decomposition in wetlands, agriculture/livestock, rice fields, and biomass burning, and it is a focus of the environmentalist movement because many current scientists believe that it is the second most potent greenhouse gas, behind carbon dioxide.

At least that is what some of them are saying now.  While that view will almost certainly change (anyone remember acid rain), Colorado Democrats are working to destroy this most important industry in our state. Every. Single. Day.

Can someone please tell the know-nothings who pushed SB-181?

We’re still six weeks away from the first Democratic presidential debate with 20 contenders on stage, and the Washington Post is already predicting Colorado’s senior senator will be one of the three who won’t make the cut.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet continues to rank below “someone else” in national polls, and candidates must show at least one percent of support in multiple polls or collect contributions from 65,000 unique donors in 20 states.

“It’s a traffic jam in Iowa and New Hampshire,” said Craig Hughes, a senior adviser to Sen. Michael F. Bennet (Colo.), “especially for those running who currently serve in Congress, putting weekend travel at a premium.”

Right, that whole Congressional gig is really putting a damper on Bernie Sanders’ 2nd place showing.

Bennet has managed to pull one percent in at least one national poll, running in 12th place — behind four other members of Congress.

However, Bennet’s been going the contributor route to get on the debate stage, rather than waste time trying to capture that elusively consistent one percent of support.

So while the adults in the campaign will debating topics of national importance on the big stage come June 26, Bennet will be in the wings, playing in his sandbox full of $1 bills.

The Republican Women of Weld thought they had a place secured for the club’s monthly meeting that would explore the topic of oil and gas development. That is, until the Town of Erie told them that their planned meeting was “too politically sensitive” and revoked the space the Republican women intended to use.

According to DeAndrea Arndt, president of the Republican Women of Weld, the group offered to cancel the oil and gas speaker and focus on a different topic (to which, we say, why?), Erie still put the kibosh on the meeting space, with the deputy town administrator, Farrell Buller, claiming that changing the topic was “not acceptable, regardless of the topic of makeup of the meeting.”

To Arndt’s point, Republican women clubs are pretty tame as far as political clubs go. But this isn’t about all political groups according to activists in Weld County and Erie, who say that the town has permitted anti-fracking groups to use the space. In fact, one activist noted that on August 4, 2018, there was an open event to sign a petition in support of what eventually became Proposition 112. The event was hosted by Colorado Rising (the anti-fracking group) at the Erie Community Center.

At the very least, this seems unfair, but maybe even illegal. If anyone from the Erie Board of Trustees would like to explain why fractivists get to hold public meetings, but Republican women don’t, we’re all ears.

Earlier today, in protest of a law 1,400 miles away in a state in which she has never been elected, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold issued an edict calling for state employees to boycott Alabama following the signage of an Alabama law that would restrict abortion.

As you would expect, she got a ton of flack for it – not from Republicans, but from journalists who rightly thought the gesture was dumb.

Westword’s Ana Campbell notes that this gesture will do nothing to change the law.

A “symbolic gesture” that will have zero impact on Alabama but will get your name in a headline. Woof. https://t.co/6eUjKOprKg

— Ana Campbell (@journoana) May 16, 2019

And Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul pointed out that no state employees were actually slated to go to Alabama.

FWIW, I just checked with the Secretary of State’s Office and no state employees were actually slated to go to Alabama this year because there’s a regional training in Denver. #copolitics https://t.co/jsUEBL2Jbu

— Jesse Aaron Paul (@JesseAPaul) May 16, 2019

9News’ Marshall Zelinger sarcastically nailed it by basically noting that this was simply Griswold posturing for a potential U.S. Senate run against Republican U.S. Senator Cory Gardner.

INBOX: @COSecofState Jena Griswold is totally not running for U.S. Senate. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/UJ68y22Ufd

— Marshall Zelinger (@Marshall9News) May 16, 2019

Let’s just call this a swing and a miss, as usual, for Griswold who is more interested in her next political promotion than actually doing her job.

Nobody’s ever accused ProgressNow’s 50-year old intern, Alan Franklin, of being a voice of reason, but even his latest tweet is a bit too far even for him.

Yes, there has been some intraparty warfare this week. No, nobody in the GOP cares about what Franklin says or does when he agrees with a former legislator. Also pretty sure that nobody legitimately thinks people with whom they disagree should die. Except Franklin, apparently.

Sorry, Alan, we aren’t planning to wander through any desert or drop dead. At least, not anytime soon.

Lynn Granger was named executive director of the Colorado Petroleum Council and will lead the advocacy association during this critical time for the energy industry.

With radical activists now pulling the strings in the Democratic-controlled legislature and the industry facing increasing calls for a moratorium on our leading economic driver, Granger has her work cut out for her.

In making the announcement, American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers noted Colorado is a cornerstone of America’s energy revolution, and says Granger’s leadership skills will be necessary to lead the industry forward.

“The natural gas and oil industry thrives on collaborative, proactive engagement with stakeholders on every side of energy policy issues, and Lynn’s breadth of experience in government, military and business matters is uniquely suited for this role.”

Granger joins the council from Colorado Concern, a business advocacy association where she served as chief operating officer.