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Jeffco GOP chief aims to force vote to remove Dave Williams as Colorado Republican Party chairman

Colorado Republican Chairman Dave Williams faced mounting calls to step down Saturday amid a push by the GOP chair of one of the state’s largest counties to oust him from the top party position.

“It is an aggressive move, but what Dave has been doing for the past few months is just unacceptable anymore,” Jefferson County GOP Chairwoman Nancy Pallozzi told Colorado Politics after launching a petition on Friday to force a vote to fire Williams.

“He is not speaking on behalf of the Republican Party. He is speaking for himself,” Pallozzi said.

'I'm Voting for the Felon': 20-year-old Trump delegate from Colorado sells T-shirts to finance RNC trip

Weston Imer, the youngest delegate from Colorado to this year’s Republican National Convention, is financing his trip to Milwaukee, in part, by hawking T-shirts that celebrate former President Donald Trump’s conviction on felony charges.

“I’m Voting for the Felon,” reads the slogan on an assortment of T-shirts the 20-year-old political operative created and offered for sale online this week, for $30 a pop — or $37, including shipping and handling.

“I’ve been very pleased with the success of of it so far,” Imer told Colorado Politics on Friday, noting that he’d already received orders for 50 shirts and raised nearly $1,300, less than 24 hours after unveiling the apparel on WinRed, a fundraising platform popular with Republicans.

Federal judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit of Highlands Ranch man attacked by police dog

A federal judge on Wednesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against two Douglas County sheriff’s deputies whose dog bit the sleeping resident of a Highlands Ranch home as the result of an alleged misunderstanding about a burglary.

Tyler Luethje sued Deputies Travis Kyle and Scott Kelly for excessive force, wrongful arrest and unlawful entry after they responded to a report that someone had broken into Luethje’s house. The deputies, according to Luethje’s lawsuit, quickly sent their dog inside the home, where it bit Luethje in his bedroom and caused lasting nerve damage.

In a June 5 order, U.S. District Court Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney rejected the defendants’ attempt to dismiss the case, finding the allegations suggested there was no immediate danger that would have justified the warrantless entry into Luethje’s house.

Republican primary candidate for Colorado state Senate has lengthy criminal, civil court record

One of two Republican candidates in Douglas County’s Senate District 2 has a lengthy criminal and civil court case history, beginning in 1988 and continuing until 2022, Colorado Politics has learned.

Court records show 39 separate civil and criminal cases, in which Timothy Arvidson has been the defendant in 30.

Arvidson’s criminal past includes domestic violence, four DUI charges between 1992 and 2006 and multiple restraining orders between 1996 to 2010. The criminal and civil complaints stretched across six separate jurisdictions: Arapahoe, El Paso, Jefferson, Denver, Douglas and Summit counties.