Mesa County has been touting it’s “Variance Protection” (“Five Star”) program as the key to keeping businesses open amid the pandemic, and while the goals of the program are laudable, the widespread lack of enforcement, particularly of masking requirements, can unfortunately create a climate of additional threats to patrons, and not just to their health.
Category: Harassment
Activism, Democracy, Ethics, Extremism, Fake patriotism, Harassment, Religion, Secularism, Separation of Church and State
Election worker at Clifton Christian Church polling place tells voter he should “attend church on Sundays”
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• •This is what we were afraid of when it became known that Mesa County was using churches as polling places.
When a local man went to the polling place in the Clifton Christian Church and mentioned he preferred that the county use non-religious locations as polling places, the poll worker pulled out the snark and told him he should “attend church on Sundays.”
Government is strictly prohibited under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment from promoting specific religious beliefs, like this poll worker did while she was representing County government.
The poll worker violated the voter’s right to be free from religious coercion in a polling place.
But we knew this would happen.
Conservatives, Crazy Republicans, Crime, Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, Harassment, Republicans violating laws, Stupid Republicans
Republican CD-3 candidate Lauren Boebert’s husband arrested in ’04 for indecent exposure to a minor
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• •A Garfield County Sheriff’s Office arrest report (pdf) has surfaced showing Lauren Boebert’s husband, Jayson, was arrested on January 28, 2004 for exposing his penis to young women at the Rifle Fireside Lanes Bowling Alley.
One of the victims was a minor who was 16 years old.
Lauren married Jayson in 2005, one and a half years after the indecent exposure incident.
Cronyism, Elections, Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, Harassment, Intolerance, Janet Rowland, Legal marijuana, Mesa County Republican Party, politics, Tina Peters, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
Scott McInnis tells write-in candidate Bob Prescott to get out of the commissioner race because he’s “not on the team”
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• •Click to hear the radio ad write-in candidate Bob Prescott made in response to Mesa County Commissioner Scott McInnis’ repeated bullying (now playing on Moose Country radio stations):
The leader of Mesa County’s Old Guard Republican Establishment (OGREs), Scott McInnis, has told write-in commissioner candidate Bob Prescott to his face, twice now, that he needs to get out of the race, because “You’re not on the team,” and “You need to just go away” because “you’ve already lost.”
Prescott reports McInnis dissed him this way most recently at a Mesa County Republican Party luncheon held at Warehouse 2565 where around 30 people were in attendance.
Why is McInnis so rude to Prescott?
Ethics, Ethnic/Minority, Extremism, Harassment, Hate, Intolerance, Racism, Trump Insanity, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
More hate in Grand Junction
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• •Grand Junction’s “Inclusivity Proclamation” notwithstanding, there is plenty of hate and racism in Grand Junction. The above represents a small fraction of the 35 to 40 hate-filled memes and cartoons someone took the time to copy, cut out and mail us in an anonymous snail mail letter, received on Tuesday, 9/22/20. The rest were similar, many were worse, and many focused on Trump worship, denigrating Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, liberals, non-white people, etc.
Activism, Advertising, Deplorables, Education, Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, Grassroots advocacy, Harassment, Hate, Trump Insanity
Offensive vehicle plagues the Valley, disgusts parents picking up kids outside Chatfield Elementary School
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• •This obnoxious vehicle and its huge, offensive window decal was spotted in the parking lot at the Texas Roadhouse on November 15. At that time I dismissed it as yet another disappointing reminder that there are people living among us here in the Grand Valley who tend to be full of hate and who lack respect for others.
But it was quite another thing when the same offensive vehicle was seen parked outside Chatfield Elementary School where it was seen by a mom who was waiting to pick up her seven year old daughter. Unfortunately, her child spotted the offensive car, instantly giving the child reason to question her mom’s efforts to keep her from swearing.
Talk about putting a well-meaning parent in a bad spot.
Crazy Republicans, Ethics, Harassment, Lies, politics, Trump Insanity, Worker advocacy
BLM to G.J.? Moving federal offices out of D.C. is a way to dismantle them, Mulvaney tells Republicans
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• •Don’t cheer the relocation of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Washington, D.C. to Grand Junction until you understand the Trump administration’s real motive behind moving federal agencies out of Washington. Hint: It’s not to help them, and it’s not to help us.
The real motive for moving agencies out of Washington is to hobble and destroy them.
Uprooting federal agencies and moving them out of D.C. into “red” areas is a method the Trump administration is using to pressure skilled federal workers to leave by attrition and destroy federal oversight agencies. Republican Senator Cory Gardner, all three of our Republican Mesa County Commissioners (John Justman, Rose Pugliese and Scott McInnis) and Trump administration employees have all been telling the public that moving the agencies out of Washington is a way to streamline them, and make them more efficient and responsive to the people and industries they oversee.
Hogwash.
Consumer advocacy, Ethics, Extremism, Harassment, Hate, Safety, Security, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
Do you recognize this guy? Your anonymous tip could be worth money.
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• •Reposting from Mesa County CrimeStoppers Crime of the Week, 1/24/19
The Grand Junction Police Department needs your help to identify a male suspect that is wanted for harassment.
On Wednesday, January 2nd , an unknown male placed a malicious classified ad in “The Nickel” stating the victim’s house was “For Sale by Owner.” Security cameras capture a white male in his 50’s with a gray beard and last seen wearing a dark colored coat, blue jeans and a baseball cap. The surveillance photo of the suspect can be viewed at http://www.241stop.com.
If you know the identity or location of the suspect involved in this crime, please contact Crime Stoppers at (970) 241-7867. Information reported to Crime Stoppers that leads to an arrest can earn you up to $1,000 cash reward and you will remain completely anonymous. For more information, see us at http://www.241stop.com.
Advertising, Ethics, Extremism, Harassment, Hate, Intolerance, Media, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
New form of harassment: weaponization of classified ads
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• •Utilizing a novel form of harassment, someone put a malicious classified ad in the January 3 edition of The Nickel Classified Ads saying our house was for sale “by owner” at a lowball price, and that there will be an open house Jan 11-13. Whoever placed the ad used our numeric street address and included a verbal description of our home. They did not include a phone number in the ad.
We found out about it after a realtor came to our house with the hard copy of the ad in The Nickel in hand and showed it to us.