On April 15, 2025, Grand Junction chiropractor Greg Haitz filed a candidate affidavit to run for Mesa County Treasurer in the 2026 mid-term election. He is a Republican and owns the Rimrock Wellness Center located in the strip mall and Patterson Road and 12th Street. Haitz’s candidate committee, “Citizens for Greg Haitz,” is registered at the address of his chiropractic business, 2695 Patterson Road, #13.
Haitz ran for City Council in 2021 and lost. During that campaign, he was one of four right wing candidates who refused to answer a questionnaire put out by the Outdoor Recreation Coalition of the Grand Valley, and refused to attend any candidate forum except those put on by groups that shared his same political ideology. Haitz ran unsuccessfully again for the Grand Junction City Council District B seat in 2023. After that, he was the sole applicant for a vacant position on the Mesa County Planning Commission in 2023, and thus was handed the appointment by the Mesa County Commissioners (on a consent agenda) and currently sits on the Mesa County Planning Commission where his term expires in December, 2025.
Haitz’s history of charlatanism
During the coronavirus pandemic, Haitz led the troublesome group “Stop The Mandate GJ” that picketed hospitals, promoted anti-vaccine rhetoric and heckled the Mesa County Commissioners relentlessly over vaccine mandates for health care workers, even though the Commissioners had repeatedly told the group they had no control over these mandates.
During the pandemic, Haitz stoked fear of Covid vaccines to increase sales of his own proprietary-brand supplements that he fraudulently advertised as protective against Covid-19. After he was called out on the deceptive nature of the ad, Haitz scrubbed the fraudulent claims from his website.
In 2023, Haitz promoted “dangerous” and “reckless” weight-loss program on his business website, RimRockWellness.com.
“Dangerous” and “reckless” were the words the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used to warn people about the type of proprietary weight loss program Haitz was promoting for $199, which he called the “HCG Wellness Diet Program.” His program used Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG), a hormone derived from the uteruses of pregnant women, for weight loss.
HCG is a prescription drug used to treat female infertility and other medical conditions. It is not approved for use without a prescription for any purpose, and is expressly not approved for weight loss. The FDA further warned, “If you have HCG products for weight loss, quit using it, throw it out, and stop following the dieting instructions.” At the time, the Mayo Clinic warned that “Companies that sell over-the-counter HCG weight-loss products are breaking the law.”
Haitz is once again attempting to move up the political ladder into a taxpayer-funded position that could help him get out of running a chiropractic business that relies in large part on snake oil sales. The Mesa County Treasurer earns a generous salary of $116,147 per year, the same pay as other county officials, like the assessor, clerk, and coroner. The Mesa County Treasurer is also paid the same as the County Commissioners, and likely has a similar benefit package.