Linda Stanley
The disbarred and disgraced former 11th Colorado Judicial District DA Linda Stanley owes Fremont, Custer, and Chaffee counties $307,264.23 for misappropriating county taxpayer funds for her benefit. Those three counties sued Ms. Stanley, but Park County was the lone 11th Judicial District county that didn’t join the suit because Park County’s MAGA Commissioners had hemmed and hawed since October 2024. The Stanley Saga narrative is here, controlling the narrative, and here, Linda Stanley, an update.
On March 3, 2025, I contacted Park County Administration and asked when the County Commissioners would revisit the suit against Stanley. Administration personnel responded on March 18, 2025, that County Manager Lucas Meyer would put a “prompt” on the agenda for the April 1, 2025 meeting. And, I’ll be darned if he didn’t: “COMMENTS AND/OR DISCUSSION REGARDING THE LAWSUIT AGAINST FORMER DA LINDA STANLEY”
It’s now a moot point whether Park County will join the other three counties in the lawsuit. It has already been adjudicated. However, the Wet Mountain Tribune in Custer County reports that regardless of Park County’s participation, the county will get a percentage of the award if Stanley ever pays up.
Park County’s MAGA commissioners sat on their hands, fiddled their thumbs, and claimed Stanley was okay-dokey. But Voila! They will, nevertheless, get some of the fruit of the other counties’ labors.
Here’s the Work Session Agenda, with a Zoom link if you choose to tune in.
Pols Feeding at the public trough
I’m told the county hired Brandon Heacock last week to fill the Development Services position, which was vacated when the MAGA County Commissioners fired Mike Smith. You may recall that Heacock put his hat in the ring for County Manager and didn’t win that contest. He did, however, congratulate Sir Lucas Meyer for winning that slot.
You’ll find the Heacock bona fides here. Perhaps the below expresses an insight into Heacock’s essential beliefs:
More to the point, though, this is the current list of the Park County MAGA (formerly Republican) Party Central Committee members. Of course, the Central Committee is the political party’s top honchos in Park County. 60% of those honchos also feed at the public tax dollar trough.
I’m reminded of Dave Wissel’s “new paradigm” for government in Park County. Would it be asking too much if that new paradigm provided a modicum of separation between political party and county-paid administrative positions? Wouldn’t it be nice to conclude without misgivings that county management is ideologically neutral and that all county taxpayer citizens are well-served by public servants who are not also directing the machinations of a political party’s MAGA-centric hierarchy?
Wissel finds DOGE “Inviting”
I’ll just let the video serve to explain this one.
