Commissioner Amy “Um” Mitchell’s Maniacal MAGA Machinations
If applicable law doesn’t serve MAGA ideological ends, MAGA maniacs ignore it. Their righteous justification for brushing aside the rule of law relies on a skewed understanding of what the lofty term We the People encompasses. Rather than the intended meaning of the term in the Preamble to the Constitution, the MAGA translation bastardizes it to define only them, only their tribe, leaving the rest of us as strangers to the rights, privileges, and protections enshrined in that document. Their best interests, as we know, include anything enhancing the determined march toward authoritarianism by the Golden Calf, the Divinely Inspired Grand Pooh-bah of Mar-a-Lago, the convicted felon, the intemperate liar, the shameless narcissist, Donald Trump.
Park County Commissioner Amy Mitchell and County Manager Lucas Meyer heartily subscribe to MAGA mania.
On August 20, 2025, during the quasi-judicial meeting of the Park County Board of Commissioners, the commissioners spent nearly 50 minutes discussing Section 5.2 of the Dominion voting machine contract with the county that provides:
Any reasonable person who has the capacity for rational thought and possesses a scintilla of knowledge about the statutory requirements for conducting elections in Colorado will read this portion of the contract and conclude that the Clerk and Recorder or their appointed representative is logically the person to assume the role of the Customer Project Manager per Section 5.2 of the contract. Title One of the Colorado Revised Statutes (C.R.S.) provides that conducting elections in Colorado is the responsibility of the Colorado Secretary of State. Countywide elections are the responsibility of the County Clerk and Recorder via statutory requirements and rules promulgated by the Secretary of State.
Yet, the MAGA-centric Park County Board of Commissioners has raised the specter of C.R.S. Title 30 in another effort to do mischief in the continuing sad saga of conspiratorial claptrap regarding Dominion voting machines. Surprisingly, Commissioners Wissel and Gemmer’s mania specific to this issue showed a wee bit of temperance, but not Amy “Um” Mitchell’s.
C.R.S. Title 30 gives exclusive contracting power to county commissioners. The Dominion agreement with Park County is a contract. And here lies the mischievous, manufactured conundrum for the MAGA-centric BOCC: To comply with Section 5.2 of the contract (Section 5.2 was a Dominion requirement, not a BOCC requirement), the county (contractually the BOCC) must appoint a Customer Service Representative. Naturally, logically, it appears both Dominion and the Secretary of State assume the Clerk and Recorder, or their appointee, will fill that position. BUT WAIT! says Commissioner Amy Mitchell, it can’t be the Clerk and Recorder because only the BOCC has the authority to contract, and, via the contract, to appoint the Dominion-required Customer Project Manager.
And who should they appoint? Well, how did you guess Amy “Um” Mitchell’s choice is Lucas Meyer (or “Sir Luc” when he’s dabbling in his Knights Templar Christian ideological falderal). Meyer, you may recall, was the MAGA shoo-in for the position of county manager months before the BOCC conducted the shameful and costly sham of posting the job for applications, interviewing, and evaluating candidates for a job already promised to Meyer by Commissioners Wissel and Mitchell.
The above video captures Commissioner Amy “Um” Mitchell diving further into the MAGA election deniers’ nonsensical litany of phantoms by contending, contrary to the Colorado statutory definition of election records, that the statutory definition is wrong, leaving items out. In fact, she wants to copy the system hard disk, an unauthorized activity that sent Tina Peters to prison. Here’s the statutory definition of what election records are:
However, as I began this post, the applicable law, the rule of law, only applies to MAGA when it advances its agenda. Otherwise, as Mitchell suggests, her contentions should be the controlling factor, not the law.
I suspect the Park County Attorney, Christy Fitch, advised the commissioners in executive session that any reasonable person would conclude the Customer Project Manager for the Dominion system is necessarily the Clerk and Recorder or their appointee. The Clerk and Recorder is, after all, by statute, the chief elections officer of the county. To interject a non-Clerk and Recorder MAGA entity, or any entity other than the Clerk and Recorder or their appointee, into the election process, allowing them to interfere with the county’s election process, is not only unwise but potentially illegal.
Commissioner Amy “Um” Mitchell is no stranger to attempting to manipulate the statutory authority of the Clerk and Recorder. Only last summer, she was concocting a plan to do that very thing:
Hell, we could even go back to April 2023 to experience more happy-crappy MAGA election deniers welcomed to a Park County work session:
With the Golden Calf, the Divinely Inspired Grand Pooh-bah of Mar-a-Lago, the convicted felon, the intemperate liar, the shameless narcissist, Donald Trump’s most recent attack on states’ rights to run their own elections, this saga will continue. I guarantee it.
