Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold is defending her decision, lamely, to blow $1 million dollars of taxpayer money to promote herself in a blatantly political TV ad just weeks before ballots are mailed.
Standing beside a former GOP Secretary of State in what looks like an endorsement, Griswold is on point with her progressive political messaging with claims that election disinformation is coming to kill us all.
Her office says the million-dollar ad was intended to send a strong message to voters that Colorado’s elections are secure.
And yet the message we get is that Jena’s priority was to waste a million bucks on self-promotion, rather than using the money to actually secure our elections.
Even Wayne Williams, the unwitting Republican who appears alongside Jena, is having doubts about his own judgement in making the ad.
KRDO reports Williams asked Griswold to pull the ad 30 days before ballots are mailed for the election and Griswold’s office has agreed.
Here’s Wayne’s explanation for his poor judgement:
Former SoS Wayne Williams (R) says he stood in @JenaGriswold‘s tax-payer-funded election integrity spots prior to the primaries— in part because Griswold was running unopposed. He’s endorsed @AndersonCOSoS, and is asking it not run close to election day. @KRDONC13 #copolitics pic.twitter.com/MhFYnrio0S
— Spencer Soicher KRDO (@spencersoicher) August 17, 2022
A campaign finance complaint has already been filed against Griswold, and Anderson is circulating a petition telling the Democrat to pull the taxpayer-paid ad.
“It’s not the message, it’s the messenger.” Anderson adds Coloradans should not be paying for an ad that features Griswold so prominently. Griswold’s campaign should be.
“You could use this money for cyber navigators at the local level to complete and close the loop on the security of our voting systems. Not vanity projects for commercials.”
The ad will serve as a reminder every time it’s aired that Griswold has rightly earned her nasty reputation for politicizing our Secretary of State’s office, and this is how she wastes our hard-earned tax dollars.