Park County MAGA Commissioners want Trump to remake Colorado in their image. They send a cry for help to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The majority of the credit for “mushing” together–her words–the plea for Donald Trump to save Park County from the socialist yahoos in Denver goes to Commissioner Amy Mitchell. The guy to the left above is Micthcell’s primary collaborator from Montrose County, Commissioner Scott Mijares. Migares went a step further. Mijares didn’t just sign the document—he designed it, as the Rocky Mountain Voice memorialized in its April 22, 2025 edition.
Mijares didn’t just sign the document—he designed it.
He purchased heavyweight, oversized 10 x 17 paper for the final version, secured the board’s attested signatures, and rolled it into a mailing tube for delivery to the White House.
“I literally created a beautiful, kind of artistic document that looks almost like a proclamation.” He added, “It’s something people can put their fingers on… not just a piece of paper that gets lost in a folder.”
Other copies were sent to Rep. Lauren Boebert and Rep. Jeff Hurd. “We’re also sending one to any elected official who wants one,” Mijares added.
One of the three Montrose Commissioners, Sue Hansen, abstained from the vote approving the letter, “explaining that although she had no procedural objection to sending letters of support, this one raised questions of representation.
“’Often these are symbolic in nature…,’ Hansen said. ‘The board has a perspective, and it may not necessarily agree with everybody in Montrose County.’”
“Hansen noted the board sends similar letters on a range of state and federal matters and emphasized the need to remember that all 44,000 county residents deserve consideration. A request for comment was sent to Hansen. As of publication, no response has been received.” (Quoted from the Rocky Mountain Voice.)
Wissel, Mitchell, and Gemmer talk the talk: “We represent all citizens of Park County,” while Montrose’s Hansen walks the walk.
Amy Mitchell said Park County’s letter included input from fellow Commissioners Wissel, Gemmer, and County Manager Lucas Meyer. She said all she did was “mush” it together and add the Park County “flavor” to the letter, although she did not say if she planned to emboss it on heavyweight, oversized paper.
Not to open a can of worms or cause controversy in Montrose County, but Sean Pond, the third Montrose County Commissioner appointed to his seat by the Montrose MAGA Republicans after the incumbent died, also claims authorship of the original letter.
I originally titled this post “Chickenshit” because it seemed to me Wissel intended to keep the discussion and letter as low-key as possible. It was even left to Lucas Meyer to remind Wissel it was ready to be aired; Wissel’s comments were relatively terse, and he took pains not to read the document himself. Since the discussion was during a work session, there would be no official record of it happening; there was no proclamation—Letter to Trump Day!—or official proclamation.
But, considering what MAGA is, chickenshit may be too tame a word.
If you’ve watched the video, you’ll note that County Manager Lucas Meyer guffaws mightily with what he perceives to be an amusing remark at the end of the discussion. He rhetorically asks if they should add Governor Jared Polis’s birth surname to their letter. “Should we use Jared Polis Schultz,” he says and then giggles like a schoolgirl. Polis’s birth surname was Schutz, not Schultz. He changed his last name to his mother’s birth name, Polis, in 2000. Polis is Jewish and gay.
I don’t know why Meyer voiced that comment, which, for some, leans precariously close to antisemitic. Maybe it was only meant as a silly comment that appeals more to adolescents than adults. Or, for others, it may reflect Meyer’s perception that it’s okay to poke fun at the gay guy. After all, Meyer’s Facebook site did, for a while, display this:
In any event, it is what it is. The transcript of the May 14, 2025, meeting is below.
Transcript – BOCC Work Session, May 14, 2025 – Letter to Donald Trump
Meyer: Lucas Meyer, County Manager; Wissel: Dave Wissel, Commission Chair; Mitchell: Amy Mitchell, Commissioner; Gemmer, Jason Gemmer, Commissioner
Meyer: Chairman, one last thing, if… We, we had mentioned at a previous work session a possible letter to, ah, the executive administration, ah, ….President Trump. Um, if you guys would like to… If the Commissioners would like to have any discussion on that. Ah, as I believe that there is a final draft ready at this time.
Wissel: Thank you for that, Lucas. We have been discussing our friends in several different counties, have been communicating with the federal government on their concern about the direction and recent, um, legislated… passing… ah, um, bills that have been, um, on the forefront of Colorado’s legislative session, which is now thankfully over. Neither man nor his property is safe while the legislature is in session. There’s a reason for that statement. So, with that, we have been kicking around some things. We did speak pretty loudly both on Senate Bill 3 as well as House Bill 1312. Ah, there’s been some communication from our fellow peers and different counties, Montrose County and their Commission did a proclamation on their concern about Senate Bill 3 and other things on the infringement of natural and constitutional rights. And we have some similar feelings with that. And so there was a collaboration of, of, ah, between us to come up with a draft, and with that, I’ll stop and let the drafter talk about.
Mitchell: Well, I’ll give, um… Yeah. Montrose county. Scott Majoris, um, specifically sent us, um, their copy of their letter. Um. You know, there’s other larger counties that have more bandwidth. More resource, a lot more like more attorneys and not just one that we worked to death. Ha! Ha! Ha! Well not to death, but we work hard. Let us know if you’re getting close to that and we’ll back off, Christy. And Teller County wrote a letter. It was, um, pretty focused on sanctuary status within Colorado and they’re, um, the pressure to force them to stop working with ice for detention holds and such. And they’re the only county in the state that has fought hard to maintain their ice detention, but they had other things into their letters. So, I basically took it upon me to mash a bunch of these letters all together and then put the Park County flavor on it and then through Lucas sent it to, to both, um, Jason and Dave to let them put, ah, their $0.25 worth in and mash them all together. We went through a couple rounds, and I believe that we are at a, um, a very good and respectful letter. But, um, you know as our… Um. As we are afforded, we can redress our grievances when we believe that that, um, government is outside of bounds, contrary to the Constitution of the United States and of Colorado. Um, and I believe that we are in that state right now. We are in the reality of, um, tyranny. And I think it is only appropriate… Um… There’s also another motive. Um, President Trump has stated that they believe that sanctuary status or behavior of sanctuary, which is happening in Colorado for certain… Um, they’re looking at pulling funding to those states. Um, and we want, we want them to know that we are, we respect the Constitution. The federal government doesn’t have that many, um, provisions within the Constitution. One of them is, um, national security and to protect our borders and, um, and we would like to be able to honor that at the county level as well. And, um, and so we it may put us in a better spot for funding depending on how things happen in the future, Um, and to let them know that we, we obey, we appreciate and obey that rule of law that was afforded to us back at the founding of our nation. So that’s how this all came about.
Wissel: Thank you for that.
Gemmer: Thank you for that presentation. I appreciate that and I appreciate the, ah, the, ah, efforts that we have all put together and looking through this document at our own time and will and making adjustments. So… I believe there’s, ah, several items in there that, ah, that have recently come through in the, ah, in the House and Senate have been signed in by the Governor, that have shown to be issues in with, within a lot of people within this county. And I believe those, those issues will be challenged in court as they should be, but that’s going to cost the taxpayers of the State of Colorado tunes of a… a lot of money. And, ah, they never even should have gotten that far. So I believe this is a, a, a great way for us to represent, ah, what this county really wants to stand for is being, um, adhering to the Constitution, as well as the Constitution of the state of Colorado.
Mitchell: If I may, we, you know, I take… We… I, I will speak for myself, but I would imagine my fellow Commissioners feel the same, take my oath of office extremely seriously because it is pledged to God. And, um, and we can, we must uphold the constitutions of Colorado, and the United States is what we pledged to do. And that oath is in me, my perception, it’s a binding agreement. Um, so, um, I think that, um, we owe it to show that we are doing the, the best work we can to try to stand up to our oath. So, thank you, Mr. Chair.
Wissel: Yeah, I think and if I could just sum up, um, we look at the last, one of the last pieces of legislation and the legislature is over, and my brain is refusing to remember bill numbers. They don’t matter anymore because they’re out of session. But the last bill, which was completely the antithesis of working with ICE at the local level, I mean, local law enforcement could be charged and fined $10,000 for trying to cooperate with federal officials on immigration matters. All kinds of protections, and our governors was real… trying to be clearly stating, perhaps for future political endeavors, that he’s a libertarian. The passage of that Bill and his signature would remove any libertarian from his legacy, and prove the Colorado is nothing more than a sanctuary state. All of us, whether we want to be or not, and we did a resolution a year ago saying that we were not and could not, and have none of our resources available for people that are not residents or citizens. Legally. And we’re in an environment that doesn’t provide any conducive, ah, opportunity for people that aren’t prepared for justice summer. So with that, you know, I think I think it’s a reasonable letter and I’m in support. You wanna go ahead and read it? Yeah. Yeah, you wrote it. It’s easier for you to read than me.
Mitchell: Huh, huh.. Alright, yeah, my voice will be, um, attached to this, and I am honored and proud to do it. It’s dated May 14th to the honorable Donald J Trump, President of the United States, the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500. Dear President Trump. The Park County Board of County Commissioners, additional elected officials and appointed staff write to you with the utmost urgency and dire commitment to defend the Constitution of the United States. We are witnessing firsthand the rapid decline of constitutional governance within the State of Colorado. Unrelenting waves of constitutionality breaching, legislative actions have passed, and more are on the agenda that strip our citizens of their rights and bear burdensome taxation and government overreach upon our constituents. The once great state of Colorado is crumbling under the weight of its extreme ideologies that seek to strip our citizens of their First Amendment rights only after infringing on our Second Amendment rights just weeks prior. This is not partisan alarmanism, alarmism, but a desperate plea for protection from overreach. Citizens are being criminalized for carrying out lawful actions such as speaking out or even carrying out the basic functions of a parent. Families are being torn apart under Colorado Protection Services guidelines, property owners are being taxed to support agendas they don’t agree with. County governments are, ah, are the last tower of hope, even with that, as more Coloradans move to the rural areas, more socialist extremists from other states move into the Denver metro and I-25 corridor, and continue to control the vote. Our state has been gerrymandered to the point where we no longer can have a voice. Park County is a large mountainous county with the center of, within the center of Colorado with 59% public lands and a small population and a small annual budget. It is not feasible to litigate every, every constitutional violation of, of the State of Colorado. The citizens of Park County, Colorado, urge you to intervene in these egregious government overrea…oversteps. The citizens deserve a government that we elected to represent us as a whole state and not just the extreme ideologies of the Denver metro area. Accordingly, respectfully request you, your administration, the United States Court, and the Attorney General Pam Bondi, to urgently intervene. We request a full formal review of Colorado’s legislation since 2008, where many signed bills violate the rights of American citizens guaranteed under the Constitution. We request a full review of the gerrymander districts of counties that silence our voice, the egregious state election laws, including the willful violation of the state’s requirement for counties to preserve election data during the trusted build, voting machine software upgrades, and the automatic voter registration statute signed in 2019. We request a review of the sanctuary laws that prevent our Sheriff’s Office from working with ICE when illegal aliens have been arrested for breaking the law. We advocate for and uphold the truths and fundamental liberties of the people of Colorado. We furthermore, furthermore we support local and rural governments that are committed to preserving and defending the United States and the original Colorado Constitution. As per Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution, the United States of America, we call upon the federal government as guardians of people and the Constitution to step forward and defend us from the tyrannical overreach of our state government. When state violates the fundamental and natural rights of its citizens, it becomes the duty of the nation to intervene and restore constitutional order. This is deeply embedded in both philosophical thought and legal precedent. It underscores the principle that governments exist to serve and protect the citizens, and when they fail in this duty, corrective action is not only justified but required. This is a request that we do not make lightly, as elected officials appointed officials and public servants, we are sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution as the representative servants of the people of Park County, Colorado, we grow increasingly desperate to defend our citizens from the oppression, oppressive taxation and leveraged overreach of Governor Polis and his extreme agenda. Should Colorado fall to this destructive liberal agenda, it will continue to cascade throughout the nation. Just as the extreme ideologies have infected our state, so will it spread to other states. We believe in the voice of our citizens and they are screaming for liberation from the oppression from tyranny. Humbly, please intervene quickly, respectfully submitted.
Wissel: Thank you for that. So that’s our letter. It’s, ah… I’ve signed it already. I’ve sent it down to you two to sign and we’ll send… Thank you for that, Lucas.
Meyer: My only question on this is, ah, whether we should use Jared Polis’s full name, Jared Polis Schultz. Just a question.
Wissel: Yeah. I, I just think however we get it to the governor is OK. And if others would like to so, offer their signature on it, we would be welcoming them. Um, if they’re so inclined. This is going to be from the three of us. And we have accounted for an additional signature, signature page if others wish to adjoin. So with that, anything else, Sir?
Meyer: Nothing else for me at this time. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I’ll volunteer to sign that as well.
