Polis 'put both of his hands on her shoulders and pushed her back'. Jared Polis, the Democratic nominee for governor in Colorado, was involved in a physical altercation with an ex-employee in which he admitted to police he pushed the woman. ... Polis told the officers who arrived at the business that a woman he was employing, Patricia Hughes, had given her resignation .... Polis—at the time still legally named Jared Polis Schutz—told Hughes not to take any sensitive documents, and quickly drove to the office. "After hanging up with the dispatcher, Ms. Hughes attempted to leave the office. Mr....