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Posted on 08/12/2026 5:43:04 PM PDT by CFW
A Denver District Court judge has given Secretary of State Jena Griswold until Thursday to comply with an open records request, or she could be held in contempt.
The records involve consulting work, paid for with public funds. Griswold's office says it doesn't have the documents and it refuses to ask the consultant for them, claiming that would impose an undue "burden." Instead, the Secretary of State's office sent four employees and the Attorney General's Office sent three attorneys to court.
The consultant was brought in two years after Griswold became Secretary of State. The office had become a revolving door. Griswold was on her second deputy secretary, third chief legal counsel and fourth chief of staff. An invoice in the court record shows the state paid Sage River Consulting nearly $25,000 to conduct "leadership development" and make "findings, conclusions, and recommendations."
Attorney Suzanne Taheri, who was deputy secretary under Republican Wayne Williams, saw the invoice in the state's transparency portal and asked the office for the consultant's report.
"We felt like that report is important for the public to know about and certainly they paid for it, quite a bit of money, and they deserve to see it," Taheri said.
Taheri says the office told her it didn't have anything to show for the money.
"No recommendations, no conclusions, no nothing. Not a single document," Taheri said.
She didn't buy it, pointing to another invoice that showed the office paid Sage River the same amount of money for strategic planning and the consultant produced a 700-page report.
"This is the same company. There should be documents out there," she said.
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Taheri says it's better than going to court.
"I thought it was unusual because their whole argument is that this would be really difficult to have to go call the vendor. But I arrive in court and they have four representatives from the Secretary of State's Office there. They had three attorneys from the Attorney General's Office there. So they have this whole army of people on state time just to not make a phone call."
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I'd love to see Griswold in jail for what she did to Tina Peters. Could this be the path to at least getting her disqualified from running for political office? She is the Dem nominee for state attorney general.
Consultant Money Laundering.....................
I’d love to see Griswold in jail for what she did to Tina Peters. Could this be the path to at least getting her disqualified from running for political office? She is the Dem nominee for state attorney general.
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Step in the right direction.
Surprised to see it sourced on CBS
Typical government tactic, hide the data behind the bureaucracy.
I'm sure Griswold is a joy to work for as I am sure she is your typical AWFL.
“A Denver District Court judge has given Secretary of State Jena Griswold until Thursday to comply with an open records request, or she could be held in contempt.”
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NO NO NO NO NO!
If the State employee refuses to comply with ANY open records request they should be immediately put in jail.
Officers of the court will then go “get” the records by whatever methods available.
The State employee can continue to sit in a cell.
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If the judge holds her in contempt (as I do), he has the discretion to throw her in jail until she purges the contempt.
Sage River’s website: https://sageriver.com
Sage River’s founder: Susan Heinzeroth
Its website prominently advertises its work for numerous State of Colorado entities. But not for the Secretary of State’s office. If they did actually do work for the SoS, you would certainly expect that fact to be prominently advertised. But it isn’t.
IMHO, definitely fraud od some kind happening here.
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