Who is this Stephen Miller? He is now, next to the President, the most powerful man in government

Yesterday, Stephen Miller was promoted to Donald Trump's chief of staff. This was Trump's response to the blue tsunami... raising his middle finger in a salute to what voters did on Nov. 3.  Trump is so distracted by building monuments to himself that he now has a lieutenant, an assistant he can trust to run the executive branch. If Miller is true to his past, he will pave the way to continuation of Nov.3  results into the 2028 presidential cycle.   So who is Stephen Miller? From my January 2026 blog post: 

The real shame is that so many Americans share or tolerate his (Trump's) racism.

The other shame is that his racist whisperer is in his ear daily and given a permission slip to proceed. Stephen Miller, on his staff, has a long history of white nationalism. If anything, Miller's contribution to the Trump regime is his anti-immigrant stance, including using the cruelty of family separation as a tool and in deporting immigrants without due process. He is viewed as an extremist in these sensitive matters. Given his anti-immigrant reputation, I doubt if the Bill of Rights and the civil rights-related amendments would be high on his required list of curriculum topics. The Southern Poverty Law Center tags him as an extremist.https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/stephen-miller/. Miller is in charge of this ICE project aimed at ridding the country of as many brown people as he can under the pretext that migrants are criminals, when 70 percent of those they grab have no criminal record.. ..but are brown and are both American citizens and who only committed a misdemeanor of being undocumented. Miller's campaign involves eliminating the birthright citizenship of those born in the US and cleansing them from this country.

The next two years after the blue tsunami lis about the 2028 elections: The campaign begins now.

 The race for 2028 begins now. The biggest challenge Dems will face is to prove they have a plan to deal with affordability that makes sense and to blame Trump’s veto pen if they fail. The immediate cures will be ending the Iran war and rolling back tariffs as well as ending the Ukraine conflict that does not cave into Putin . All of those caused the high prices of fuel and groceries. What happens to health care will be the biggest issue I predict in 2028. . However, the bad taste in the mouth that will bleed over into 2028 will also be MAGA ‘s sexism and racism and the stench of corruption.

The new crop up of and down the ballot winners full of diversity and driven by a desire for economic fairness Nov 3. will be motivated to put up intense fights. That was their answer to the racist white Christian nationalism of the Trump regime and shifting the costs of living to everyone who was not super rich. The biggest winner in the midterms was not a ballot item but democracy that worked to restore control of, by, and for the people and stopped the slide into authoritarian rule by a wannabe strongman governing by fear and revenge and trampling into dust the rule of law, helped by his merry band of tech and big business oligarchs.

Will capitalism survive? I can hear it now as shrieks of horror that the DSA will take us over. The DSA was successful because it stuck to its public plank of affordability and economic fairness. I did not hear support for its other plank of ending capitalism. They did not get a mandate for that. What I do think is that after the dust settles, capitalism will emerge healthier.

Crony capitalism run by oligopolies and only interested in profits is what drove Marx and gave wings to the Soviet-style dictatorship, where means of production were in government control with central planning. That in time failed to produce enough financial success to sustain its socialist agenda of free everything. DSA plank differs little from this economic system, but the democratic word in their title means people vote to have that system instead of the Stalinist method of brutal force to stamp out all but the proletarians.

Capitalism does best when the free market sorts out the losers and winners because there is competition that determines the best practices. Bribery, pay-to-play, monopolies, and advantages given to the ruler's supporters are capitalism's enemies. In addition, many services demanded by ordinary constituents are not profitable, but capitalism based solely on profits will also not provide them either. Safety nets and basic services demanded by the masses need support, and tax policy is what provides that. .The balance between social services and capitalism varies from country to country, and voters will determine that balance in a democracy. For those concerned about communism, the quickest way to that is for capitalism to fail to address its problems within a democracy like ours.

The one sector that will likely do more than just fill in the gaps that capitalism cannot provide will be health care. That one may go left...but the discussion will be between full Medicare for all or some version that will extend Medicare and Medicaid to younger age brackets.. To pay for it will take an adjustment in the tax system built to protect the ultra-wealthy. France often rates the greatest consumer satisfaction with their socialized medical system. I had the opportunity to ask the French ambassador to the US years ago how the French tolerated the tax system, and the answer was they felt they were getting their money's worth. That's a judgment call, and the debate in Congress in the next two years will tell us where health care falls in that balancing act in the US. At minimum, the cuts to all those health programs may get restored. How far it goes to provide Medicare for All is yet to be seen, but polls suggest there is majority support for the concept. In the middle, it may be to move health care providers to become not-for-profit. Americans may have had enough of profiteering at the expense of their health care.

Even then, with expansion in Medicare, there may be gaps in the ability to pay co-pays, as it is with Medicare now. Private insurance still should be allowed, but at least the system should be built so that no one has to go broke to get the health care they need to pursue living that modern medicine can provide. Within that system, formularies and competitive bids to provide pharma and procedures can be used to bridle the obscene profits private health provides . Innovation and research should be well funded,too The good news is that Medicare provides the outline of the system so it does not need to begin from scratch, and we know the cost of administration. per participant. The other good news is that the cost of many subsidies may be offset to some degree by expanding the pool to include more healthy young participants, reducing the cost per member by spreading the risk widely.

https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/current-and-historical-public-opinion-on-medicare-for-all-and-other-national-health-plan-proposals/

Even with the blue tsunami, Europe still views Trump as a danger to world stability

https://derspiegel.substack.com/p/a-survival-guide-to-the-last-two?utm_campaign=email-post&r=imm3e&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The above is the English-language editorial from the middle-of-the-road German news magazine, Der Spiegel.  They feel Trump is still a danger to world stability, and fear he will try to cement even closer relations with Putin.  In fact, they fear he will be even more dangerous than he is now. Ukraine will be particularly tense. Germany is already planning to "step up to the plate".

An interesting development in the Balkans: a long time strong man is unhorsed for corruption

The love of autocracy and strongman fascist rule is a fever that has already broken, with the popular uprising of voters in Hungary and Serbia, and now Brazil. In most cases like this, it is driven by the corruption that strongman autocracies enable and the failure of self-serving wannabe dictators to be responsive to the affordability issue affecting so many lives. Nov. 3 may also signal the same realization in the US. We will see.

Both Viktor Orban and Aleksandar Vucic have something in common: Russian-leaning strongmen who were brought down because of the anger of their corruption. This is interesting. The Student LIST movement just ousted the current strongman Aleksandar Vucic in Serbia via parliamentary elections.. The List was angered by the collapse of a railway station canopy, which exposed government corruption and contracting incompetence.. It was about both that and student grievances against the government policies, as well as a Trump family deal. Yeah! We cheer another strongman bit the dust. Chalk one up for democracy. Well, democracy worked, but those supporting Vucic's fall were not necessarily more pro-West, either.

List's agenda wasn't about joining or not joining the EU or NATO.. List's demands ignored the EU issue and advocated military and national neutrality. Reuters believes neighboring Croatia and Montenegro, both NATO members, influenced the uprising and unhorsing of the Vucic government. Per a PBS report, students were also angered about the government's approval of a development by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, that would have removed an historic ruin dear to Serbian nationalists angered by US bombing of Belgrade in the Kosovo conflict (another Serbian/Muslim conflict).

Update: Going forward, Student List will have challenges. Update: Amb. Christopher Hill, former ambassador to Serbia and a participant in the Dayton Accord ending the Bosnian War in the 1990s, (and for a time a fellow member of Denver Rotary) has posted his very knowledgeable and thoughtful analysis. of what the future brings after List's victory. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/experts-react-serbias-vucic-is-out-and-the-student-led-movement-is-in-what-comes-next/

Things are never simple in the Balkans, yet what happens there does not stay there, given its access to the Mediterranean, which Russia has always coveted, and a religious affinity with the Russian orthodox church and Russian culture, including a similar alphabet. Serbia had applied for membership in the EU, but it was de facto put on pause because a massive street gathering celebrated as a hero the death of a Bosnian Serb, Ratko Mladić, who was serving a life prison term in The Hague. The World Court found him guilty of leading the mass killing of 8 thousand men and boys who were Muslims from the Bosnian village of Srebrenica. The long-reigning Vucic government in Serbia opposed the public celebration of the “hero’s Mladic" funeral in mass demonstrations as Mladic's body was returned to Belgrade, Serbia, because of fears, rightly, that their application to the EU would be put on hold..

Also eyebrow-raising last night on US TV was one of the leaders of Student List, the student movement bringing down the government, flashing a two-handed victory sign of the nationalist Chetniks... a hyper-Serbian nationalist movement ..During World War II, the Chetniks were the surviving royalists that had fought the Nazi's as a guerrilla group with the hope that the Serbian king would be restored to the throne. Their ideology was fighting communism and advancing Greater Serbia. (Yugoslavia was formed in the wake of WWI by pasting together warring ethnic regions that had a Serbian king, a constitutional monarch, until the Nazi invasion of the country) . Student List appears to be more of a nationalistic movement than not; however, one can also hope that Serbian neutrality is better than being a Putin satellite.

The implications for peace in the Balkans are huge since Serbian history is one of closeness to Russia, and Putin has been trying to get more influence in that ethnically conflicted and heated cauldron. Their client state in Bosnia, the semi-autonomous Republika Srpska, just elected a pro-Putin government with the assistance of Trump’s own campaign operatives.

UPDATE: Brazil at the same time rejected the return of a right wing party: same ol Trump BS. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/26/trump-brazil-election-bolsonaro-rigged-01135566

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/serbias-populist-strongman-vucic-outplayed-all-his-opponents-then-the-students-came. 

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/whose-side-is-trump-on-anyway-from.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbia-votes-students-seek-unseat-vucic-snap-election-2026-10-25/

Felicia Muftic is a long-time close-up observer of the Balkans, since her visit as an exchange student in Europe in the late 1950's, and was been married for over 50 years to an immigrant from Croatia with close Bosnian roots. At Northwestern, her independent senior year study was on Balkan History, culture, and economies. Over the past 50 years, she has visited every corner of the former Yugoslavia, and the family has been involved in import and distribution from that area even today. She has also been involved in humanitarian aid post-civil war in the 1990s through Denver Rotary and the Rotary Foundation

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/whose-side-is-trump-on-anyway-from.html

Rutinel is right to oppose 133 (proposing harsher penalties for traffickers) and Evans is deceptive and wrong in CO district 8 race

 Gabe Evans/Manny Rutinel race for the 8th Congressional district in Colorado is boiling down to two issues. (D)Rutinel is focusing on affordability, and GOP incumbent Evans is for law and order and says Rutinel is not because he voted against harsh penalties for human trafficking, as is ballot issue 133. Rutinel is right. Evans is deceptive and counts on voters' ignorance. No major anti trafficking, anti-violence against women organizations in Colorado support 133 because: 1) it punishes victims 2) it is a sneaky way to stop women from other states from seeking abortions in Colorado., Take a look at those who oppose 133 and from a press release on September 17, the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CCASA) and Cobalt hosted a joint media briefing on how Proposition 133 (Penalties for Human Trafficking of a Minor) on the November ballot harms victims of sex trafficking, sexual and domestic violence, and child abuse, and deceives the public about its impacts. In addition to CCASA and Cobalt, Prop 133 is opposed by a growing coalition of victim service organizations, advocates, and survivors, including the Colorado Children’s Alliance (CCA), Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance (COVA), Violence Free Colorado, Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center (RMvlc), Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, RMIAN, Project Safeguard, the Women’s Foundation of Colorado, COLOR Action Fund, Lotus Foundation, Sweetgrass Advocacy, Caring for Colorado Foundation, Project PAVE, 4 The Child, The Family Tree, and ACLU of Colorado.

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/vote-no-on-colorado-prop-133-regardng.html

Don't count on Colorado AG candidate.Allen to defend vote integrity, protect us from ICE and attacks on reproductive rights

 So much has been made of whether one or the other is a better administrator, but what far more crucially counts in the race for Colorado Attorney General is what the AG likely will do or not do. We have a good idea from GOP Michael Allen's past actions and statements of what Allen likely will NOT do. Don't count on him to protect vote integrity and ballot access convenience, to defy Trump's attempt to take over Colorado's control of who, where, and how we vote, to stop ICE's excessive use of force, or to protect against attacks on the Colorado Constitution's protection of women's reproductive rights. Democrat Jena Griswold is on the opposite side from Allen in all of these issues, and she has already proved her effectiveness in their defense.

The single case made by supporters of Michael Allen, GOP, is that he is a better manager. Unlike Griswold, he is also a prosecuting attorney in the courtroom, a skill AGs rarely, if ever, use, because there is a whole division that does that in the AG's office. That attack line is also an attempt to get voters away from focusing on what important issues are at stake. Allen claims Griswold is a poor manager based on skimpy evidence and is an arguable judgment call. If Griswold, as Secretary of State,, was "such a poor manager," she certainly has been effective, including keeping in check rogue county clerks who failed to keep elections fair and free during her tenure. Her business service sections ran smoothly, as well.(As a small business owner, I use her office frequently)

-Allen likely will not use his skills to protect ballot integrity..He follows the agenda of election deniers. He supports the suppressive SAVE Act and prefers in-person voting instead of mail-in ballots., Griswold has shown grit, courage, and skill in protecting fair and free elections as Secretary of State, including bringing Tina Peters to face justice. for breaking rules that had assured bi-partisan scrutiny control over the count. and then lying in a cover-up. Griswold successfully defied Trump's demand to turn over protected voter rolls as Secretary of State, and protected the gold-standard mail-in system.

- Allen will likely not protect Colorado from excessive force and cruelty of ICE. He supports ICE activities in Colorado; Griswold promises action to stop ICE's illegal actions.

- Allen likely will not protect challenges to the state constitution, which protects a woman's right to choose, because he is an extreme advocate against abortion even in the case of rape and incest, and opposed that same amendment that protects women's reproductive rights. Griswold is a firm supporter of women's reproductive rights.

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-hidden-agendas-in-race-for-colorado.html

Griswold on Tina Peters on 60 Minutes:https://www.facebook.com/reel/1754112445691420

Welcome to Yugoslavia. Flashbacks to the raid on Ilhan Omar's home

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It is still dark, not sure what time it is, and someone is knocking at the apartment door...and a chill and terror make you suddenly wide awake, heart pounding. It is the secret police again, hunting for a family member they believe to be a danger to their government and state. You go to the door; in a rush, the police push in and search every nook and cranny. After they leave, you shakily make a cup of coffee and try to calm yourself down. That was the life of my mother-in-law, Baba, as the Yugoslav Communists took control of their lives post-WWII. It was still a problem when two of my pre-teen children spent time with Baba, and once again, the banging in the night, as the secret police demanded ot know what foreigners were staying with her. Baba produced my two very frightened children, and they went away. I had flashbacks to what happened to Ilhan Omar, a congresswoman, when Trump's police minions, ICE knocked on the door to search for evidence to justify their suspicions that, sometime when she was 12, she lied to get her citizenship. No evidence yet, but surely they will find it. Why? Because she was deemed an enemy of Trump: black, Muslim, immigrant, woman, and an outspoken critic.....Welcome to Yugoslavia in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

The Hidden Agendas in the race for Colorado Attorney General

 There are e hidden agendas in the race for Colorado's Attorney General. Two powerful positions in Colorado government control how, where, and who gets to vote., Secretary of State and Attorney General. Both are on the ballot November 3; It is where the battle between "election deniers" such as the GOP candidate for Attorney General, Michael Allen, and Jena Griswold, the Democrat's candidate. It is where state control of elections plays out in n the attorney general's race. It is also about who will defend Colorado's "right to choose" if a foe of women's reproductive rights is in the AG's saddle. While these are lurking elephant-in-the-room issues now, they will be even hotter in the next two years leading up to the presidential campaigns.

Both of these agendas should also be viewed in context as a nationwide GOP strategy to support election deniers in key governmental positions and the always continuing drive to force all states to be anti-reproductive rights. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/a-growing-number-of-election-deniers-hold-key-local-roles-in-midterms.html

On one side is Jena Griswold, who has effectively defended with guts and success on the national stage state-by-state control of elections as Secretary of State, Democrat, and on the other hand is Michael Allen, GOP El Paso DA, who embraces "election denier" policies such as "preferring in-person voting" over mail-in voting and the oppressive SAVE Act, among core positions. Also under attack by Allen's MAGA cohorts in the next four years will be the perennial issue of women's reproductive rights and Trump's attempt to meddle in the 2028 presidential elections with bully tactics, including ICE or military presence. The resistance against both attacks will be played out in the courts, and who is Attorney General is critical to the outcome. Grriswold on 60 Minutes regarding Tina Peters: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1754112445691420

Griswold also attacked Allen's who hearted support of ICE and its cruelty, and his pledge to overturn Colorado laws standing in the way of full cooperation with them on immigrant issues. https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/10/15/griswold-allen-attorney-general-debate/

Allen has successfully buried these major issues by claiming, without specific evidence or concrete examples, that he is a better administrator than Griswold. For claiming she is a poor administrator, dang, she certainly has been effective in holding off Trump's attacks on our elections. Allen experience he touts has been effective in supporting election denial and ballot issues banning abortion in the case of rape and incest, too. Griswold is a supporter of reproductive rights, while Allen has supported ballot initiatives banning abortion even in the case of rape and incest. Those are the elephants in the room that are the hidden agenda of his supporters.

There is a good reason why Allen and his supporters are trying to make some experience and administrative reasons to vote for him. He is out of step with both mail-in ballots and the issue of women's choice. 87% of Colorado voters are satisfied with the system and 65% are pro-choice per polls and evidence cited in a Google AI seaarch. Even the issue of "experience" is a campaign theme has its problems. https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-message-to-my-friends-who-have.html

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-elephant-in-room-of-colorado.html

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-message-to-my-friends-who-have.html

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/michael-allen-gop-candidate-for.html

What about the amendments? Hidden agendas in many. Most of those ballot initiatives and  proposals are from groups outside of Colorado, and part of national agendas...such as tricking voters using mail-in to put their personal information on the outside mailing envelope. .Bye bye secret balloting.   The one human trafficking is particularly bad because it punishes some victims, and some are charging it is a secret way to keep women in southern states from seeking an abortion in Colorado...though that theory has not been tested yet.  It is not a referendum on human trafficking, and it will likely accomplish nothing since the penalties are hefty already.  Wonder where the GOP candidates for Congress and Senate are on releasing unredacted Epstein files?  For an excellent article on dark money and dark advocates on amendments, sorry for the paywall, but the Denver Post had an excellently researched analysis: 

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/10/21/amendment-84-dark-money-fundraising-governors-race/

How popular is mail-in voting in Colorado? 87% like the election system.https://copollinginstitute.org/release/87-of-colorado-voters-say-theyre-satisfied-with-states-election-system/

What percentage in Colorado support women's reproductive rights? Per Google AI"Public Support and Polling

• Majority Approval: Polling consistently shows that roughly 65% of Coloradans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a rate higher than the national average. [1]
• Ballot Measure Approval: Colorado Amendment 79, which solidified abortion access and protections in the state, passed with 62% of the vote. [1]

How tech oligarchs just domonstrated how they can be a danger to our democracy and national security:

 Tech oligarchs control communications and content of what goes on the internet. This past week, two strange happenings raised some red flags: One concerned Ukraine's defense and the other attacked No Kings Day organizers. Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, is what Ukraine uses to target and defend itself using missiles and drones because the satellite system can provide detailed geographic locations. Its use in defense against incoming attacks from Russia depends on this, and mysteriously it slowed down for some critical time, to permit Russian incoming to kill a lot of people and do some damage.  Saturday was NO Kings Day, and mysteriously the Instagram system used for Indivisible's communication with demonstrators crashed for four hours midday.  Instagram is part of Meta (formerly called Facebook) and is controlled and over 60% owned by tech oligarch Mark Zuckerberg.

Coincidentally, Donald Trump dropped any pretense of support for Ukraine this last week and is now in a full-throated alliance with Putin over Ukraine's survival. If the Trump cohorts fear anything, it is the size of the turnout of peaceful street protests against Trump's attempt to make himself a tyrant king and an autocrat. Never before have such slowdowns and targeted accounts and systems been attacked at a critical moment like that. That this is all a glitch or coincidence is a hard excuse of "oops" to swallow.  

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8wy9veedgygo   (Musk agrees he was helping Trump?,yes per the BBC)

)https://www.newsweek.com/no-kings-protest-mets-12584351

If the Dems get control of either House Nov. 3, this suspected attack on our national interests by Trump's oligarch tech allies needs to be at the top of the oversight agenda because it is both important to saving democracy and stopping Russia's aggression and destabilization of Europe.

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/whose-side-is-trump-on-anyway-from.html

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/the-tech-coup-a-new-book-shows-how-the-unchecked-power-of-companies-is-destabilizing-governance

A message to my friends who have swallowed the "incompetence" argument against Griswold for AG

 For my friends who have swallowed the GOP case against Jena Griswold for AG:.Competence is not the issue here and the attack argument is bogus and cooked up. What is at issue is whether her GOP opponent MIchael Allen of Colorado Springs, will protect women's reproductive rights and Colorado's control over its elections in the face of Trump's attacks., He has a record that shows he will not. What's bogus and cooked up? That Griswold is not a criminal prosecutor is not a matter of competence to do the job of Attorney General because banging the table in a courtroom is not what AGs do. AGs set priorities of the office, and decide how and what Colorado's interests are protected and defended in court. However, the AG has a whole division of experienced courtroom litigators. The current Colorado AG has never appeared in court on original cases because of this, per a search of the issue. The bogus argument was tailor-made for the GOP candidate, a criminal prosecutor. (FYI, most AG's actions are in defense of administrative law and civil action, not criminal prosecution; for that, Allen will have a learning curve).

Update: 1030/26 I suspect that the "competence" issue was part of a variation of ballot-stacking strategy by some campaign operative for Michael Allen, since the same charges of incompetence and management problems were "countered" by some fresh, inexperienced opponents of Griswold in the primary.Her opponents boasted she did not get a majority (46% 0)in the primary as some indication of victory or validation of attack..Later letters to the editor and the Denver Post endorsement of Allen. followed. . Same pitch, same approach were also used to divert attention that Allen was in lockstep with MAGA on nearly every issue, including those hyped by election deniers and right-for-lifers on reproductive choices.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/alaska-senate-race-ballot-stacking-allegation-explained

A vote for Allen is a vote for an AG who is on the record for opposing women's reproductive rights and voter control and access to voting. He "prefers" in-person voting instead of mail- in and supports Trump's suppressive voter ID laws. He has a record of fiercely anti-abortion rehetoric including being supportive of failed ballot initiatives that would have banned abortions even in the case of rape and incest. If Allen is so talented as an attorney, think what damage he could do to these issues.

For someone allegedly incompetent, she certainly has been effective.

Griswold as Secretary of State, has proved her competence to defend Colorado against Trump's attempt to take away our ability to control who, what, and how we conduct our elections. This includes removing Trump-loyal county clerks from election supervision who violated the rules on election ballot security and chain of custody in 2020, including Tina Peters. FYI: the actual criminal prosecution in her case was so effectively conducted by the AG's office that Donald Trump had to get involved, threatening to yank federal SNAP funds from Colorado if we did not let her go. Gov. Polis caved on that one.

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Felicia Muftic is a former election commissioner, Clerk and Recorder of Denver and the director of the District Attorney's office on consumer fraud, with concurrent civil and criminal powers with the

AG's office for the consumer protection laws. She has served on an AG advisory board on the UCCC. Un(iform Consumer Credit Code.)

Michael Allen; candidate for Colorado Attorney General , is a wolf in sheeps clothing

 

The Denver Post endorsement of MichaelAllen over Jena Griswold for Attorney General totally ignored Allen's extreme pro life/anti abortion record and his "doubts" about mail-in ballots..a deceptive election denier more in step with the rest of the MAGA GOP. What about ICE's attempt to control how they operate in Colorado? Those are the critical issues, and Allen is no defender against any of those hot-button issues that the next AG will handle. At the top of the list is his record of supporting the most extreme measures against reproductive rights and "does not prefer mail-in ballots, " but in-person voting, for starters. He is a political wolf in sheep's clothing. Griswold has proved her ability, guts, and determination to protect Colorado on these ikey ssues. In this race, there are hidden agendas and diversionary bogus issues, and they need to be called out.

The AG rarely, if ever, appears in court as a prosecutor. In fact, the current AG has NEVER been in the courtroom on an original case per a search on AI.. There is a whole division of those courtroom litigators in the AG's staff. Still, the AG does set the tone, priorities, resources, and action on critical issues like abortion rights, ICE overreach, and federal interference in the conduct of our elections. The Denver Post relied on Michael Allen's expertise as a prosecuting attorney against crime, but that's an irrelevant asset. Much of what the AG' does is civil litigation and administrative law, all of which are more important to protecting consumers and affordability than the difficult-to-prosecute criminal law convictions required. That Michael Allen is a competent attorney means that he can also use those skills to stonewall issues such as protecting mail-in voting, against extreme voter ID requirements, and reproductive rights.

Allen may have a great track record fighting crime, but where is he on these other issues that matter? Will he go after businesses that cheat, collude to set prices, and deal with outrageous utility bill gouging? These are on Girswold's agenda, but not his. All that is important, but what about ICE overreach, or voter access, or reproductive rights?

The Post endorsed him for a less-than-relevant reason: competence as a crime fighter, and ignored these issues which concern most voters in a blue state, like Colorado, as if to divert your attention from what is most important: So who will also go to bat for reproductive rights? Who will truly fight against Trump and his federalizing of voter rolls and anti-mail-in ballots that 90% of Colorado voters use? It will not be Allen.

."Republican District Attorney Michael Allen has a record. He represents a threat to reproductive freedom that runs counter to our Colorado values. He supported the abortion ban on the ballot in 2020, Proposition 115. He has stated, 'I am unequivocally pro-life.' https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/10/middleton-we-need-jena-griswold-as-attorney-general-to-protect-abortion-rights/82402/ 

Michael Allen,"Prefers" in-person voting instead of mail-in ballots in a September Facebook post. in 2024. Allen is in step with other election deniers. Do not expect him to go to bat for our rights to voter access or our mail-in ballot system. He also supports a burdensome voter ID law that will suppress the ability of those who do not have a passport or cannot prove their current name is the one on a certified birth certificate. Your driver's license is no proof of citizenship. That may come as a surprise for those who believe that is all you need to vote.

As Colorado’s Secretary of State, Jena Griswold refused to turn over Coloradans’ sensitive voter data to the federal government and has consistently stood up against Trump's attacks on elections.