It turned out electing Tina Peters as County Clerk was the biggest, most expensive and most embarrassing mistake Mesa County voters have ever made.This is true even considering the Mesa County Republican Party’s long track record of electing troubled people to office...
The relationship between Clerk Peters and the all-GOP Mesa County Board of Commissioners has been deteriorating ever since the scandal over the breach of security in Peters’ officebroke back in August. After Peters spent weeks in hiding and then returned to work like nothing happened that relatio...
The machines were decertified, leaving county commissioners to quickly replace them before the November election. And then there were all the legal questions — and fights — to navigate. “It’s been a major disruption in the administration office of the county. It’s been a major consumer ...