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(WND)—It’s previously been documented that Colorado’s current attorney general, Democrat Phil Weiser, has adopted a sue-President-Trump-for-everything political agenda.
In fact, he’s started or joined dozens and dozens of lawsuits against Trump,
A commentary already had explained Weiser, in his campaign now for governor, is “running for the Independence Institute’s ‘Californian of the Year Award.’ He wants to pull the same stunt in Colorado.”
From budgeting decisions in the Executive Branch to the enforcement of national border and immigration laws, Weiser wants to make decisions for everyone. His tactics have been so outside-the-box that Congress already has considered intervening in his scheming.
It was Fox News that reported America First Legal, a nonprofit founded by Stephen Miller, a Trump adviser, is calling on U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chief of the House Judiciary Committee to open an investigation into “lawfare” by Democrat states that is part of Democrats’ campaign to block Trump and plans.
But now it seems that Weiser isn’t all that proud of the money he’s forced taxpayers to spend on his project.
Because he’s delayed the release of public records that would show just how much cash taxpayers have lost to his campaign.
It is the Center Square that is reporting Weiser, one of the political leaders in Colorado fighting to make that state more extremist than California, has taken part in at least 66 lawsuits against Trump.
He’s made that agenda a key component of his campaign for governor, repeatedly bragging about his attacks on the president.
“The Center Square requested a full list of cases in April, but the cases are held behind a $330.96 paywall. Public records that would reveal payments to outside counsel are being held behind a $289.59 paywall,” the Center Square confirmed.
And for nearly two months, Weiser’s office “has declined to answer how the fees were calculated.”
In fact, communications director Lawrence Pacheco “delayed processing the request and has repeatedly refused to accept payment of the unexplained fees,” the report confirmed.
The Center Square revealed Colorado law demands the release of public records within three working days.
“Agencies are allowed an extension of up to seven days if ‘extenuating circumstances’ exist, such as when the release of public records would interfere with an employee’s obligation to perform his or her other public service responsibilities,” the report confirmed.
Pacheco raised that issue, but not until nearly the end of June, some two months after the request was submitted, and on at least five occasions, Pacheco has ignored requests for a timeline estimate, even though records show taxpayers paid Pacheco $186,840 last year to respond to media requests.
“I’m amazed that they’re trying to conceal public documents like this,” said Dick Wadhams, former chair of the Colorado Republican Party, told the Center Square. “What are they afraid of? … If (Weiser) is going to brag about all these lawsuits, he damn well ought to share all the information with the public.”
Jon Caldara, of the Independence Institute, said, “Government that isn’t transparent is always going to be corrupted. Every minute there’s a new press release or a press conference (from Weiser) on how he’s ‘saving us’ from Trump. It sure seems like, well, that’s nice, but what’s it costing me for you to sue Trump all the time? … Maybe they are spectacular lawsuits. Maybe they’re worth every penny. Maybe when people find out how much of our money is being spent, they will hail him… but we have a right to know. For him to say, ‘I’m not going to tell you until after the primary,’ is basically saying, ‘I’m not going to tell you until after I’m elected governor,’ because whoever wins that primary becomes governor.’”
“It is the nature of government and those in power to keep their cards close to the vest and not have those nasty citizens and those icky reporters asking them for governmental documents,” Caldara said. “This is very tyrannical, and the AG’s Office plays a sizable role in this.”
WorldNetDaily previously reported on the campaign by Colorado officials to resist, disobey and block Trump’s agenda for America.
A lawfare tracker report said there have been some 200 active against the president, many “without concrete evidence to back up the claims they make.”
A column by Robert G. Natelson at Complete Colorado called some of Weiser’s schemes “constitutionally perverse.”
“Progressives,” he concluded, “generally don’t care a rodent’s derriere about the Constitution’s division of powers. (How many times did Weiser sue the overreaching Biden administration?) And most of Weiser’s suits are constitutionally perverse: they are designed either to (1) undermine legitimate federal functions, such as immigration control, or (2) force the federal government to do things the Constitution actually does not assign to it (such as subsidizing solar power).”
He criticized that Weiser would “rather fight the duly elected president of the United States than protect Coloradans from crime,” which is surging in the state.
His concern was Weiser’s troubled “obsession” with Trump.
Actually those costs are above and beyond the millions of dollars Colorado taxpayers have been forced to turn over because of the campaign by Gov. Jared Polis, a homosexual, against Christians. The state has gone to court against a baker, a web designer and a counselor, trying to force them to give of their own religious faith and adopt the religious beliefs of the state, which revolve around the LGBT agenda.
Colorado has lost all of those at the Supreme Court, resulting in awards to the plaintiffs’ lawyers so far totally millions of dollars.
The state hasn’t even learned yet, with another case in its agenda against faith-based preschools now pending at the high court.
Polis created a program offering preschool help “for all” in Colorado, then specifically excluded participation by Catholic preschools in the program, adopting a viewpoint discriminatory agenda.
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