Case in point, Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office is charged with investigating allegations of campaign finance misdeeds.

But now when Griswold is the subject of complaints that she broke the law, Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office is charged with investigating her campaign’s alleged violations.

The news is that Weiser plans to drop the charges while the whole mess is being blamed on Griswold’s brother, who is also her campaign advisor, and she claims to have no knowledge of the campaign violation.

In other words, if a campaign violates the campaign finance law but the candidate disavows all knowledge, then the law was never broken, apparently.

The violation occurred when Griswold was planning to run for governor, and PeakNation™ will recall that Weiser announced this year he’s running for governor.

But now Griswold is instead running for Weiser’s soon-to-be-old job of attorney general.

Isn’t that cozy?

What happened is, Griswold failed to file for office including the required personal financial disclosures before launching her campaign for governor.

And that campaign went public when her brother bought the domain name jenaforgovernor.com last year, which effectively made the campaign public.

Her brother claims he had no idea that buying a domain name comes attached to a landing page on the internet that announces your website called “Jena for Governor” is “coming soon.”

We’re to assume he’s ignorant about the internet, and didn’t bother to check if the product he bought actually existed online.

Here’s the original 9News story from December about the website and the resulting complaint.

The Denver Gazette now reports:

The conclusion is that insufficient evidence supports the finding that Griswold violated state campaign finance law.

Which is really odd, considering the Griswold camp eventually admitted to owning the website domain, which is public information, and was displayed publicly.

The loophole getting Griswold off the hook appears to be the attorney’s general finding that Griswold never “publicly disclosed an interest in running for governor.”

Hilarious, considering everyone in the state has known for years she was planning on it.

And then just one week after Griswold shocked voters by announcing she will be running for attorney general and not governor; the Gazette breaks the news from the current attorney general who is running for governor that he will not be pursing charges against her.

Cozy, indeed.

More of Griswold in any elected office let alone as the chief law enforcement officer is exactly what Coloradans don’t need.

She’s made a wreck of the Secretary of State’s office as evidenced by the leaked password scandal right before the presidential General Election in November. And, that time she mailed voter registration letters to 30,000 people who were in this country illegally.

And now she wants more power to screw up our state.

If elected, Griswold would also be the state’s chief propaganda officer in charge of defining misinformation to “prevent and combat the sharing and spreading of factually inaccurate data.”

PeakNation™ will recall that’s the state law passed by our Democrat-controlled legislature and signed by Gov. Polis last summer. No good will come of it under Griswold’s watch.

She is a melodramatic princess with a voracious appetite for revenge. Griswold would be a waking nightmare as attorney general.

Even the Democrats don’t like her, as evidenced by this ongoing poll by a Denver activist on X.

The qualification she’s flouting to serve as Colorado’s attorney general is that she hates Trump.

Hell, every Democrat elected official in the state hates Trump, that doesn’t make them to be attorney general.

What next? Democrats announcing their intention to run for governor because they know how to sign their name on every misguided bill passed by the inept Democrat legislature?

Has Colorado really sunk so low that voters would even consider putting Griswold in charge of equal protection under the law?

She doesn’t even meet the basic job description, which is to promote open and accountable governance and the highest level of ethical legal services to the state.

She has no interest in advocating for policies that help law enforcement protect Coloradans from criminals, or the state from any legal challenge — unless it’s from a Republican.

Jena’s running on a revenge tour to help pile on lawsuits against the Trump administration using Colorado’s limited government budget.

And while many Democrats want to see Trump suffer, even if it’s at the country’s expense, surely they want an attorney general who is dedicated to doing the actual job for Coloradans, which is this:

The Attorney General has primary authority for enforcement of consumer protection and antitrust laws, prosecution of criminal appeals and some complex white-collar crimes, the Statewide Grand Jury, training and certification of peace officers, and most natural resource and environmental matters. Additionally, the Attorney General’s Office works concurrently with Colorado’s 22 district attorneys and other local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to carry out the criminal justice responsibilities and activities of the office. The Attorney General is also the chief legal counsel and advisor to the executive branch of state government including the governor, all of the departments of state government, and to the many state agencies, boards, and commissions.

Come on Colorado, Griswold couldn’t even launch her campaign without first getting slapped with a complaint for violating state campaign finance law back in January.

Jena Griswold is a train wreck in search of her next tunnel.

If this is the best Democrats can do, no wonder America now looks like this.

The crowd of 30,000 cheered loudly the remarks of one union leader who said the message to the Democrat party that day was to “Get off your ass!”

Now the uprising has Colorado’s boomer establishment Democrats quaking in their Birkenstocks as aging U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, who couldn’t even compete with Joe Biden for president, is now up for reelection.

Plus, the critical state seats, like the race to (finally!) replace a term-limited Jared Polis, an embattled Secretary of State Jena Griswold, and Attorney General Phil Weiser already embedded in the far left with nothing to show for it.

Colorado’s Progressive Left should feel emboldened and energized.

2026 is the time to step up—every seat held by a safe, out-of-touch Democrat who won’t meet the moment needs a primary challenge. Let’s build power where others have gotten too comfortable. https://t.co/PoCASVENRT

— Deep Singh Badhesha (@DeepNotShallow) March 22, 2025

As the Democrat Party’s popularity took a nose dive to a record low of 29% in a new CNN poll, it’s no wonder the New Yorker and Vermont socialist were rallying the troops in Colorado, one of the Democrat Party’s last strongholds.

The whole show was a real Democrat downer for all the state’s career politicians and comes on the heels of the battle erupting in Washington, D.C. to toss status quo party bosses like U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer off the sinking ship of fools.

Yet there stands Hickenlooper, still supporting Schumer to lead Senate Democrats in their opposition to exposing government waste, fraud and abuse in government agencies that would secure funding programs like Medicare and education, which is getting wasted on DC bureaucrats instead of reaching public schools.

To digress for just a moment, every time Democrats scream about federal workers losing jobs, remember your tax dollars are supporting this bloated system of middle management that too often wastes your money. Republicans are trying to build a pipeline to get that money back to us more efficiently before our country gets swallowed up by the $36 trillion debt we owe to investors including China.

The level of vitriol directed at Schumer for siding with the GOP and Trump on the government funding bill this month has shaken the party and their friends in the media, who are now on the hunt for who is siding with whom in a Democrat Party schism.

Axios Denver reports Hickenlooper respects Schumer’s party split to side with Republicans on the spending bill so Hick is crying for party unity.

“I think it’s time for Democrats to stop pointing fingers at each other and doing the circular firing squad,” Hickenlooper told us when pressed about whether he would support a leadership change.

The Democrat split is bad news for Hick, who would be nearly 80 years old when he finished another term in office. This leaves him vulnerable to primary opposition from a younger candidate, which is 97% of Colorado’s population.

And check out the anger that greeted Democrat U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen at a town hall meeting in Golden last week.

Even 9 News reported the Democrats here are in disarray and frustrated with their lawmakers.

At least seven people were escorted out by police after interrupting the forum Wednesday night. Some attendees shouted at Bennet, accusing him of failing to take a strong stand against Republican policies.

“You’re a joke, Senator, you’re a joke,” one person yelled before being removed. Another criticized Bennet’s past votes, claiming, “The Senator voted to approve Trump’s nominees.”

Others took to chanting, “Step up or step aside.”

Good times. So sorry we missed it.

The Democrat senator is wise to gauge support before committing to another humiliating political defeat.

PeakNation™ will recall Bennet was jockeying for last place in the 2020 presidential race when forced to concede just weeks into the primary election season to Joe Biden.

After living inside the Beltway for his nearly 16 years in the Senate, Bennet is ready to bring home all that generational wealth he amassed as our public servant, which now ranges upwards of nearly $31 million from his remarkably successful market investments.

In Colorado, Bennet is a one percenter in terms of wealth. Nancy Pelosi must be very proud of him.

What would a Gov. Bennet mean for Coloradans?

We will certainly kiss our TABOR refunds goodbye and can expect massive tax increases under Bennet’s pet project to reinstate the old welfare system of paying people large sums of money based on the number of children they produce.

Gen X will remember that scheme for producing welfare queens, until it was abolished by then President Clinton in the early 90s when Republicans took control of the U.S. House for the first time in 40 years.

Bennet calls it a “child tax credit” and got Congress to approve a temporary revival during COVID.

Unfortunately, after the crisis passed, the payouts continued, and it crippled our workforce because people were making so much money by staying home and plundering the government’s social welfare system instead of returning to the able-bodied workforce.

If elected, Bennet would also perpetuate the state Democrat Party’s end run around democracy through their vacancy scheme that skips elections and denies Coloradans their votes.

Instead of serving their full terms, Democrats quit their elected jobs early to allow for entrenched party vacancy committees to choose their successor. Then they use the power of incumbency to get elected over, and over, and over again.

That’s how Bennet got this job in the first place. When Democrat U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar quit before his term was complete to take a job in the Obama administration, the successor was hand-picked by the governor, who was then Democrat Bill Ritter.

If Bennet keeps his seat while running for governor, like he did when running for president, he will get to choose his own successor if he won.

Bennet is an elitist and a faux Coloradan who bought a one-day fishing license just to shoot a campaign ad pretending to be an avid fly fisherman.

PeakNation™ will also remember with side-splitting laughter that time Bennet posed in his freshly pressed blue jeans against a decorative tractor at Big B’s Orchard in Hotchkiss while taking a scheduled call from then President Biden for another photo op.

He is neither an outdoorsman nor farmer, but the whitest white man this state has ever seen. When he deigns to visit us.

Also running to replace Polis who is mercifully term limited, are Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Attorney General Phil Weiser, maybe U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse.

It’s a line-up from Hell.

With Republicans cast to the wilderness while Dave Williams is at the helm of the state party, it’s difficult for conservatives to compete in this election as Williams has a bad reputation for trashing every candidate he didn’t personally hand pick — much like the Democrats do.

The goal was to nudge them towards sensible policies and lower taxes with a sense of humor, or a wrecking ball, whichever worked best.

Journalists had already abdicated their role as government watchdogs, and Peak was there to do battle against the media’s unyielding bias against traditional western conservative values.

Those were the glory days of a Republican-controlled state House and later the Senate, when government checks and balances kept Democrats mostly in check and natives could still afford to live here.

We delivered the news with a heavy hand of snark that was ahead of its time, and over the years has been copied by many with little success.

Peak Politics has grown to a million readers annually, and thanks to social media the readership has exploded.

But there was a time the Biden administration’s censorship had Peak on the rocks, as Facebook shadow-banned posts that had once gone viral reaching hundreds of thousands readers, down into the single digits.

Then last year, the social media mafia finally sunk our Facebook account into cement shoes and dropped it into the middle of the ocean to sleep with the fishes.

Without any warning or explanation, and with only one community violation in our 14-year history, the Peak Facebook page disappeared without a trace in early March.

This was the last post that done us in.

We have no evidence that Jena Griswold was behind our sudden exile into oblivion, but it wouldn’t have been the first time her fingerprints were on other harassing actions against Peak.

Lawyers were hired, Facebook pretended the account never even existed, and the battle lines were drawn.

Then with just seven weeks before the November election, Facebook suddenly remembered where they hid us away, and boom! Peak just resurfaced out of the blue, like one of those soap opera characters brought back to life after being decapitated in a car wreck.

Our readership rebounded with a vengeance!

Meanwhile, Elon Musk had just acquired Twitter and so Peak turned to X to reach our audience, which doubled our number of followers in the first year.

Peak went on to expose and hammered Democrats for rigging state legislature elections through the vacancy board system that allowed party insiders to elect lawmakers instead of you, the voters.

Over the years, Peak has given voice to the state’s energy industry and its 150,000 workers when Democrats treated them like pariah as our energy costs skyrocketed.

Peak has tirelessly reported on the corruption of Democrats too numerous to count, their wild escapades, abuses of office, reckless spending of your tax dollars, and their ultimate downfalls.

Peak has informed on critical state ballot issues that have saved taxpayers money and warned when the will of the people was about to go sideways.

Peak played whack-a-mole with Democrats and their media comrades when they pretended there was no property tax crisis and that Bidenomics was a good thing.

Peak never wavered in our watchdog role during the entire COVID crisis, too much of which was of Polis’s own making.

When he wasn’t cussing out his constituency, the Polis administration was doing his dirty work to shutter businesses for good that dared open their doors just to pay their bills.

And PeakNation will never forget the nursing home deaths blamed on faulty COVID tests, that were awarded under a no-bid contract to an FOP, friend of Polis.

Peak has proudly served as the proverbial canary in the coal mine to warn when disaster was just around the corner and successfully blocked bad government ideas in its tracks.

And we did so for the benefit of our millions of readers over the years. Or maybe it’s just the same one million every year. Nevertheless, we love you all the same.

Happy anniversary!

Democrat Party elections for county officers statewide are Saturday.

The post is still on his Facebook page that’s littered with leftwing political messaging. It reads: “Being nice is overrated. Just find a good lawyer and choose violence.”

KRDO originally reported this week on the post and the excuses Rogers provided, plus his insistence that it was just slang.

From the report:

Rogers says that he then posted the meme, with it using the popular Gen-Z term of “choose violence”, typically used to describe someone or something as problematic or causing difficulty, in a playful way.

So playful! someone should mass produce it on dog sweaters.

In a separate post this month, Rogers engaged in what fellow Democrat and Secretary of State Jena Griswold would surely describe as election denial.

The post read: “Based on the last 15 days, anyone still thinking the 2026 midterms are going to be “free and fair?”

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It sure sounds like the party leader is endorsing election denying and calling for violent insurrection.

Here is his TikTok video ranting about the call from the KRDO reporter doing the original story.

@electrobrogers Got an interesting #voicemail yesterday. This is issue that so many people have with the media. #manufacturedoutrage #meme #chooseviolence ♬ Welp, Didn’t Expect That – Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX

Rogers seems to know his language is threatening.

Note his deliberate use of the phrase “unalive threat” to fool the TikTok trolling algorithm so as not to be tagged for using violent language.

Plus, the fact he completely avoided repeating the phrase that got him into trouble, that is not playful at all.

Adding to his overall creep factor, Rogers throws in a backhanded brag that he “takes it as a compliment” that conservatives who are getting “unalive threats” would think it was a result of his Facebook post.

No one in their right mind would say, hey, you’re getting threats and you think it’s because of my playful post saying “choose violence?” I take that as a compliment!

Since he’s not running for reelection, he should probably change the name of his TikTok account from electrobrogers.

That’s gotta be a record.

The Secretary of State office that Griswold holds now is responsible for enforcing the campaign law in question, so the complaint was initially filed with her office.

Since Griswold can’t investigate herself, even though she tried to on another serious matter last year, the complaint has been forwarded to Attorney General Phil Weiser for further investigation.

Colorado Politics writes that is supposed to avoid a conflict of interest, which is hilarious because Weiser announced last month he is also running for governor.

Only in Colorado, right?

The complaint says Griswold “expended funds on a gubernatorial campaign and had a website dedicated to a gubernatorial run but has not registered a committee or filed a candidate affidavit for governor.”

The website amounts to a public campaign announcement, and the domain name acquirement is an official campaign expenditure.

From Colorado Politics:

Colorado campaign finance law requires an individual who becomes a candidate to file a candidate affidavit within 10 days of filing it. A personal financial disclosure is also required within 10 days of the filing.

Griswold didn’t do any of that.

Instead, right after 9News reported on Dec. 20 the website jenaforgovernor.com had been published in August, the website was scrubbed.

But wait, there’s more!

Griswold’s campaign manager is her brother, Chris Griswold, whom the complaint says, “initially lied, stating it was ‘definitely’ not their domain.”

The complaint said the Griswold campaign revealed it purchased the website only after learning that his email address was tied to the campaign’s email subscription.

Griswold’s brother dismisses the complaint as “baseless,” and yet it surely looks to be based on facts that could be easily verified.

We are intrigued to see how the attorney general plays this.

If he lets Griswold slide with a fine and a slap on the wrist, he’s just proving he’s part of the entrenched Democrat system that refuses to prosecute their own protected class and criminals who vote Democrat.

Everyone knows Griswold wants to be governor and has every intention of running. So, why is she being so coy and allegedly breaking this technicality in a campaign finance law?

Stay tuned!

According to political prognosticators of such things over at RRH Elections, Colorado ranks 19 out of 38 races likely to flip in 2026.

The shining beacon of hope this far out is the race is not seen as a “safe” Democrat seat, but it’s a “likely” Democrat seat.

Now the needle just needs to move to “leans” Democrat and then to that big, beautiful category of “tossup!”

Meanwhile, we like their analysis of the early presumed candidates on the Democrat side going down in flames.

From the report:

“One prominent Democrat is already formally in the race in AG Phil Weiser (D); however, he is unlikely to get a cleared primary. SoS Jena Griswold (D) is thought to be interested, and is transparently ambitious, but also a somewhat polarizing progressive figure.”

No two words in polite English conversation describe Griswold better than “transparently ambitious,” yet we would throw in “ruthlessly” just for accuracy.

Despite Colorado’s leftward slant into Hell, RRH reports that Republicans have a strong bench that could produce a tough opponent to the Democrat dynasty, including state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer.

Other interested Republican candidates include State Sens. Mark Baisley and Paul Lundeen; former Speaker and current university regent Frank McNulty; former Arapahoe County District Attorney John Kellner, and; George Brauchler, who was elected in November as the DA in Douglas County.

Democrats already measuring the drapes in the governor’s office include U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse, Jason Crow and Brittany Pettersen.

RRH speculates current Lt. Gov. Primavera is a likely candidate, yet she’s done nothing in that position going on eight years except earn two salaries.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s name is also being thrown around, just not close enough to the garbage can, yet.

The bad news is another Democrat of the same political mold announced her candidacy Monday to run for the seat in the 2026 election — Amanda Gonzalez, the current clerk and recorder of Jefferson County.

Boo and Hiss.

Gonzales says she purposefully picked Jan. 6 to make her statewide political debut so she could recall the specter of the protest that went wildly wrong and interrupted a critical session of Congress prompting cries of insurrection.

Gonzales told the Colorado Sun:

She wants to prevent the kind of election misinformation that led to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol four years ago in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss.

PeakNation™ will recall that one protestor was the only person killed that day. A second person died of a drug overdose and three people died of natural causes. But we digress.

Gonzales ran for county clerk in 2022 to protect democracy, she says.

Just a reminder the job of a county clerk and recorder is to issue motor vehicle titles and registrations, record real estate records, issue marriage licenses, passports, liquor licenses, and maintain voter rolls.

It was also her job to run elections in a legal and fair manner, not to get bogged down in partisan politics.

By the way, her experience includes only one election as a county clerk. She cut her political teeth as director of Common Cause in Colorado, a national group that was formed to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court case and stymy political speech.

But wait, there’s more from the Sun:

If elected, Gonzalez plans to focus on advocating for legislation that would make it easier to vote in Colorado. As Jefferson County’s clerk, she pushed for a new state law that requires jails to offer in-person voting to inmates.

But seriously, why again should Coloradans support her?

She also pointed out how she would be the first Latina and first openly queer secretary of state in Colorado if elected. (She identifies as bisexual.)

That is probably all that many Democrats even need to know about her.

The Sun doesn’t mention any Republicans considering a run for secretary of state but reports that other Democrats considering it include state Sens. Steve Fenberg, Jeff Bridges, and Jessie Danielson, and former Jefferson County Clerk George Stern.

Questions to ask CO Democrat Sec. of State candidates:

Do you support a performance audit of the Election Division, in response to the ballot-counting machines password leak?

Will they accept Jena Griswold’s endorsement?#copoliticshttps://t.co/3oHbCWzFlD

— Rob Fairbank (@robfairbank) January 6, 2025

So while voters are grappling with the dual New Years’ Day attacks in New Orleans and the Vegas suicide truck bomber from the Springs, Phil Weiser picked this news cycle to launch Colorado’s 2026 gubernatorial race.

Long story short, Weiser’s timing sucks as badly as his record as the state’s attorney general.

BREAKING—Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for Governor of Colorado.

There are many reasons why I’m running to lead this state I love, but the biggest reason is simple: I’m committed to fighting for the people of Colorado. —> 🧵 👇. https://t.co/ff8K5blRL3

— Phil Weiser (@pweiser) January 2, 2025

Weiser claims he’s committed to the fight, although exactly what criminal element he’s really been fighting as the state’s highest ranked law enforcement official is anyone’s guess.

Colorado AG Phil Weiser, who has presided over the worst crime statistics in the state’s history, wants to be promoted to Governor. If you want higher taxes, higher crime rates, higher homelessness, higher energy costs, and more people wandering the streets high, he’s your guy. https://t.co/4EsuniguIl

— Spank (@mentaldischarge) January 2, 2025

Among the accomplishments Weiser claimed in his campaign announcement is that of “making us all safer.”

Swear to God, he really said that.

“Together, we have accomplished so much by … Making us all safer, working alongside law enforcement and community leaders to stand up enhanced recruiting, improving training for our police and sheriffs, pushing for and defending gun safety measures, and prosecuting cartels and crime rings.”

And yet PeakNation™ will recall this is the same attorney general who declared Aurora the new Ellis Island and vowed not to allow the deportation of illegal migrants arrested for committing a crime — only those first convicted of just the really violent kind of crimes.

Even as attorney general, Weiser couldn’t bring himself to support the prosecution of common criminals unless multiple crimes were committed in a certain time frame.

NEW: @pweiser reveals his hard line on car thefts.

Once someone has stolen “3 or 4 cars” within “say 3 months,” THEN it’s time for consequences.

No wonder Colorado is #1 in the nation for car theft. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/Tlhxn7bLTW

— Kristi Burton Brown (@KBBColorado) July 26, 2022

Weiser also claimed to be a leader in combating the opioid crisis, and yet he supports an open border that has flooded the drug market leading to increased overdose deaths.

Weiser’s idea of drug treatment is his support of legalizing drug injection sites in Colorado.

We can’t imagine a worse candidate for governor than Weiser. Unless of course Jena Griswold decides to run.