BOCC: Local Dem Proposes
‘Preservation of the Right to Vote’ Resolution
What’s Up With That?

by George Gramlich,
News and Notations

NOTE: The deceptive resolution “Preservation of the Right to Vote” is back on the table for the June 30th Meeting. Tabled again for a July meeting.
Pretty tame stuff at this Custer County Board of County Commissioners June 1, 2021 meeting until the local Democrat Party Chair, James Gilbert, turn came up with a proposal
that had more meaning than what it said. We’ll see the strange brew in a minute.
All three musketeers showed up: Chair Bill Canda and members Tom Flower and Kevin Day.
The landfill report was that everything is going good. The compactor broke again but what else is new.
The new Veterans Service Office head showed up for the first time. Jared McClain is learning the ropes and doing good. Office hours look like Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. He would like veterans to make appointments for claims, if possible, so he can set aside sufficient time to do a thorough job.
Next up was Dr. James Gilbert, the Chair of the Custer County Democratic Party. He is proposing that the musketeers sign off on a resolution titled, “Preservation of the Right to Vote”.
Flower asked Gilbert early on in the discussion if he was representing the Democrat Party and he said no, he was there as an individual citizen. Fair enough but still shaky.
Gilbert launched into a long-written speech containing many inaccuracies. He said there was a record turnout in the last election because there was more access provided due to the Chicom virus lock downs. He said there were dozens of election lawsuits filed by Republicans alleging voter fraud and not one was accepted. (Note: Probably true, but look at it this way: In reality, not one was allowed to go to trial. The judges, killed requests to find the truth. Why? Lib judges plus no judge wants to be on the bench in a
civil trial that might lead to overturning the presidential election.)
He then went on to make the preposterous statement that there was “no fraud at all”, anywhere, in the election! (Really. He must be a contributor to CNN. Look at Philadelphia, PA, Good grief. Look at Los Angeles County. Plus remember the article we ran last week on Windham, New Hampshire? The heavy republican county did an audit as the numbers didn’t make sense and it found that the dem candidates, up and down the line, were given a substantial number of fraudulent votes by the voting machines. No, no fraud at all. Sir, at least try to appear honest. It really undermines your presentation.)
Gilbert, droning on in the classic lib complaining whine, says that even though there was no fraud, many states have passed and are passing draconian voter anti-fraud laws and that is bad. These laws are restrictive and of course, they will suppress voters of “color” and there is no basis for these. It is time for the musketeers to stand up for the right to vote. Blah, blah, blah.
Finally, Gilbert slows down a bit and the jousting begins. Canda asks has Colorado passed any restrictions? Gilbert says no. (So, what exactly is the problem or issue here, sir?) Flower says do you feel we have any issues here? Gilbert says no and that he is an election judge and all is good here.
Day jumps in and correctly says we need voter ID, etc., so we need to know who is voting (like illegals) and this sets Gilbert off on a tangent about how voter ID and other common-sense measures to reduce fraud are wrong because we don’t have any fraud.
Canda smells a rat and jumps in with Day with questions about why should we do this and basically it is unnecessary. Gilbert says your arguments are phony.
(Folks, what all this is: Gilbert’s resolution on preserving the right to vote is a smoke screen for eliminating laws, or preventing anti-fraud laws from being passed. If this proposal passes, he and the rest of the libs, will use it against any new law or rule concerning voter fraud saying it restricts the right to vote and the BOCC is on record saying they want the right to vote preserved thus we should not have any of these anti-fraud laws at all. He is trying to hamstring the musketeers re any new voter laws. Clever little buggers, the libs are.)
County Clerk Kelly chimes in and says Colorado is very secure and is one of the top three states in the country for honest elections. (Again, so why do we need this resolution???) She says the feds are trying to pass this enormous election law debacle that would eliminate all the protections we have here in Colorado. Gilbert is pretty quiet during this.
They danced some more. Finally the musketeers told Gilbert to get rid of some the crazy stuff in his resolution and bring it back for another go.