This is a nonpartisan issue, Griffin said in an interview. Cowboys for Trump cofounder Couy Griffin confronted a trial by jury Tuesday on charges that he failed to register a political organization without filing related public financial disclosures. Its been real hard.. A document that David Clements claims shows a failure to update voter check-in machines for 11 years is inaccurate, since the state uses a different check-in system, the secretary of states office said. It concluded that if elections continued to be litigated and relitigated, without evidence of fraud, there is a serious threat voters will refuse to accept votes they do not like, and that the, "peaceful transfer of power, a hallmark of our democracy, could be at risk.". Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver said dozens of people have complained about volunteers associated with the audit going door-to-door and asking residents about their vote. Couy Griffin Griffin, who was convicted of a federal misdemeanor in March for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, is representing himself in the lawsuit, which. She said in an online press conference that she feared, "a scenario where the tabulators would instantly become, you know, questionable, and we would have to completely take them out of serviceIt's just a really scary, unfortunate and nonsensical situation. Authors of the brief include Laurence Tribe, a professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard, and Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law. I know they do. "Ive seen the same videos that you have and there were people who acted extremely foolishly and recklessly and violently, and I dont agree with any of that type of behavior," Griffin said. He delved into politics too, serving as a county Republican chair and as an unsuccessful Republican primary candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2014. Pecchia said his respect for Clements evaporated one day when he saw his former teacher leading an anti-mask march through a craft market where Pecchia sold his woodworking, causing a disturbance. "The reports that we've subsequently seen put out by these people have been riddled with falsehoods," she said. The pickup was emblazoned with his Cowboys For Trump logo. Nichols, and awarded a nearly $50,000 contract to audit about 24,000 votes to Echomail, which was among the companies who audited the 2020 vote in Maricopa County, AZ. "Cowboys for Trump" co-founder Couy Griffin speaks to reporters as he arrives at federal court in Washington on June 17, 2022. . Otero County Clerk Robyn Holmes disagrees. The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who once took an . The Otero County commissioner is facing charges for his alleged role in the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Its probably why New Mexico is a toilet. Griffin went to court over the seatbelt ticket where he was ordered to pay the $81 fine. A Hubbard Broadcasting Company, said he never entered the Capitol building. 0:00. David Clements urged commissioners not to perform their statutory duty to certify the results, arguing that doing so would place them in legal jeopardy because of the problems they alleged with the machines. But my hope rests on the law, and the law is available to us all.. In his disciplinary hearing, which Clements posted online, the university said he violated the schools covid-19 mask and vaccination policy. Clements, who was born in Seattle, grew up the child of itinerant parents who worked blue-collar jobs. The U.S. intelligence community has continued to warn that foreign actors are probably targeting American elections. The trial itself is expected to commence on Tuesday February 28th, 2023 with national media attention. Couy Griffin has been booted from his seat as Otero County Commission chairman for violating his oath of office when he participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. They have a Son Together was born in 2014. The need for the audit in New Mexico was more in the likes of Bernalillo County, and Sandoval County and Doa Ana County," referring to areas where President Joe Biden won the 2020 vote. Investigators said the investigation was launched after Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver referred her investigation into Griffins refusal to register C4T as a political committee and disclose donors and expenses. This Otero County election review is part of a nationwide trend. FILE - Otero County, New Mexico Commissioner Couy Griffin speaks to reporters as he arrives at federal court in Washington, June 17, 2022. "On the afternoon of January 17, 2021, the U.S. Capitol Police notified the FBI that they had detained Couy Griffin of New Mexico, who was the subject of an arrest warrant for his role in the . It sounds good and people believe it because it sounds authoritative if you dont know much.. So..Griffin: We live in a state thats just so corrupt right now and has so much crime, and theres two of you guys out here driving around citing people for no seatbelts. Any further details regarding Kourtnie have not been disclosed yet. However, the new evidence . EXCLUSIVE: Blake Griffin and Ryan Kalil are getting into business with Sony Pictures Entertainment. Clements said in a brief interview in Nebraska that he believes his efforts are noble. In the end, the commissioners voted to sue the secretary of states office for forcing them to certify the primary results. FILE - Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, the founder of Cowboys for Trump, takes in the view from his ranch in Tularosa, N.M., May 12, 2021. The New Mexico attorney general investigated embattled former Otero County Commissioner and Cowboys For Trump founder Couy Griffin for using C4T funds for personal use and taking official acts as commissioner for his personal gain. Sicknick, a Capitol police. More immediately, Griffin is eyeing an open 2022 sheriffs race in another New Mexico county where he grew up. Where I need peoples support is to show up and stand shoulder to shoulder in Alamogordo for this trial. Griffin has claimed he did not knowingly trespass. He lives in a doublewide trailer. Weve got enough evidence to have indictments, people tried for treason and have the remedy of firing squads. He said the only good Democrat was a dead Democrat. And it was a challenging venture into the barbecue restaurant business that he said pushed him into politics. She grew up in the U.K. and has a small jar of Marmite in her kitchen for emergencies. The error was quickly corrected, but the damage was done. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden sentenced Griffin in June to 14 days imprisonment, but credited him for 20 days he served in jail after his arrest. Colorado State slices up Lobos; UNM is a 6 seed in league tourney, After bill was vetoed last year, lawmakers try again to boost pay of NM judges, If it MUST be the NIT, UNM basketball has a plan. Guitarist Ottmar Liebert bringing his unique blend of music Ottmar Liebert and his band Luna Negra will perform with the New Mexico Philharmonic at Popejoy Hall on Saturday, March 11. I come to you as someone who had a future. Mar 21, 2022, 9:53 AM Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin speaks Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M., as hundreds of advocates for gun rights rallied at the New Mexico Statehouse. Otero Arts Puppet Show, Authors Lecture and More, Childrens Art Exhibition Opening Night Otero Arts. As per edailybuzz, Couy Griffin is married to his wife, Kourtnie A Gates. Updated: March 23, 2022 - 2:43 PM. A rancher named Dave Wright raised his hand to say that it was obvious to him the Democratic National Committee had figured out how to cheat, so why couldnt the Republicans do so as well? Trump won there in 2020 with 73% of the vote. Couy Griffin was wanted on an arrest warrant after storming the barricades of the Capitol Jan. 6, said authorities. But she "did not take her minor child to war with her" as Couy Griffin is doing by taking their son to President Donald Trump campaign events during a pandemic, the attorneys said. And he is disillusioned with Trump himself, citing an issue that brings him back to his earliest grievances: forest management. Cell phone video captured the violence and chaos of that day. A New Mexico judge on Tuesday removed Otero County commissioner Couy Griffin by invoking the 14th Amendment's prohibition on those who engaged in insurrection from serving in office. You think that the governor hates me as a county commissioner put a gun and a badge on me, and well see.. Their additional three locations remain open. Mr Griffin, the founder of Cowboys for Trump, said in an interview with journalist Mr Griffin that he believed both Sicknick and Ashli Babbitt are still alive. And I pray to see you on February 28th at the Otero County Courthouse in Alamogordo N.M.Much love in Christ,Couy, According to case documents Griffin launched a GoFundMe account for Cowboys For Trump but used the funds for personal expenses, including court-ordered child support, used public funds to advance C4T and has taken official acts for personal gain.. Since then, Griffin has led an itinerant life. He yearns to someday run for governor even though state GOP leaders are openly scornful and Democrats hold every statewide elected office. The arbitrator, who was chosen by Griffin and Cowboys for Trump, found for the Secretary of State's Office. Just this week, Griffins attorneys filed new motions on his behalf one demanding evidence and another claiming his charges are politically motivated. I can handle a lot. Published: January 6, 2022 - 1:40 PM. Griffin: You know the drugs right now are horrible, the property crime is horrible, and theres two of you guys riding around citing people for no seatbelts?Officer: So, wed probably be doing the drug stuff if you were wearing your seatbelt.Griffin: Oh, really? Griffin has been rebuked by some Republicans over his racial invective. Expect tightened security in the area of New York Avenue and an influx of press in the area on Tuesday. For all his bombast and showmanship, Griffin's fortunes and conviction seem to be waning. Griffin is one of thousands of Trump loyalists in public office who are charting an uncertain future ahead of the 2022 election cycle. 1 talking about this. Shows how clueless you really are. Ive had my own family say some pretty nasty things, Griffin said. In a conversation with The Associated Press, Griffin says he learned to love the spotlight during five years as an expert rodeo hand in a Wild West show at Paris Disneyland park. This could either be the final nail in my coffin or this could be a true day of reckoning. His wife divorced him. With the pickup still running, the state cop walks back to his patrol car and notes to his partner.. As news of the attack came, he was in his cabin in the mountains of New Mexico with his wife and three young children. In October, around the time he was fired from his university job, David and Erin Clements mailed a 261-page document to commissioners and county clerks across New Mexico alleging widespread issues with the voting systems what the congressional report called imaginary fraud.. A first-term commissioner in New Mexico's Otero County, Griffin rose to national prominence in May 2020 when Trump tweeted a video of him proclaiming that "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat." In 2019, he founded the for-profit "Cowboys for Trump" organization and has described himself as a "peaceful patriot." Griffin has acknowledged using the county building for promotional videos but said he never claimed they were affiliated with Otero County. He says Griffin is right about lots of things, like the need for a border wall. Griffin, who was once thanked by Trump for saying The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat and who was convicted of a misdemeanor for entering a restricted area during the Capitol riot, has long alleged the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Those claims are rooted in a 2020 election night error by the clerk in a Michigan county that resulted in the heavily Republican area briefly reporting that Biden had beaten Trump there. Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Yeah.Officer: So if you want to waste our time here.. After the officer hands him the ticket, Griffin still gets in a parting shot. A jury will consider this week whether the support group . Its like hes been radicalized somehow. The criminal complaint which is basis for the lawsuit states that "on or between January 15, 2020 and March 18, 2022, Couy Griffin did willfully and knowingly violate and provision of the Campaign Reporting Act by failing to register Cowboys for Trump as a political committee with the Secretary of State, by failing to file all required finance reports and by failing to pay statutory fines for failure to file; after receiving a lawful order to do so, a misdemeanor offense.". That day, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released their report into the threat of election misinformation. We've received your submission. The first call to the press he made was to our reporter to the station we own. The couple soon found an ally in Couy Griffin, a flamboyant former Disneyland Paris rodeo cowboy who until this week was a member of the county commission in Otero, a rural New Mexico community of 69,000 along the Texan border. Theyre going to eat some crow.. Theyre going find out he didnt have anything to do with these types of things, he said. SANTA FE, N.M. - A New Mexico state district court judge has disqualified county commissioner and Cowboys for Trump co- founder Couy Griffin from holding public office for engaging . They loved it, Harper said. He said he went to pray and exercise his right to peacefully protest, but he was arrested for his involvement. He asked me to cover the prayer vigil we were the only press to do so and his attorney was happy with the coverage as was he and moved to tears. Couy Griffin Career Griffin was found taking active participation in the 2021 US Capitol riots and was arrested for the same on 8th January 2021. After years of unwavering support, Griffin suggested he. Couy Griffin, of New Mexico, was arrested today in Washington, D.C., and charged by criminal complaint with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful entry. They want to destroy our country, Griffin said in a video monologue. The countys attorney disagreed, calling the argument highly unlikely.. Republican primary candidates embracing Trumps stolen election rhetoric have flourished this year. Everette Brown, a Marine veteran and information technology specialist at Holloman Air Force Base who is Black, said that comment shows politics have changed Griffin, whom he once respected. They embrace the instructions of leaders like former Trump adviser turned podcaster Stephen K. Bannon, who has urged election deniers to run for local races and sign up to be poll workers in what he calls his precinct-by-precinct takeover strategy. Because I want to make sure our voices are accurately captured. Hes dined with Trump and Mike Lindell, the chief executive of MyPillow and high-profile election fraud conspiracist. Mr Griffin appears to be setting the stage of this court case with home court advantage. Thus the State Attorney General filed the lawsuit and a trail by jury was ordered. Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin will face off in court Monday against three New Mexicans who argue in a lawsuit that he should be removed from his post as an Otero County commissioner for participating in an insurrection against the United States. He sees. Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin confronted a trial by jury on Tuesday on charges that he failed to register a political organisation without filing related public financial disclosures. On Aug. 11, Clements and his wife presented the final findings of their audit in a special five-hour commissioners meeting, during which he got into a shouting match with the county attorney and told Holmes she should resign because it was disgusting how you fight the people. She left the meeting in tears. Now, Griffin is spearheading a legally dubious audit of the 2020 election in Otero County. "When they put this thought into people's minds, that somehow our machines are not calculating the votes correctly, then these people will not want to vote.". They say Griffin didnt partake in violence and was well within his free speech rights as he voiced election grievances and attempted to lead a prayer with a bullhorn. A donkey named Henry brays from a side yard. He appeared first in Torrance County, where he led off comments at a raucous meeting. Officer: Yep, still wasnt wearing his seatbelt. He said he began examining the alleged evidence of fraud in contested states like Georgia and Pennsylvania in the days following the election, and later had some of those who claimed to have observed it firsthand appear on his YouTube videos. Ex-NBA Champ Shares Screenshot of Soccer League's Ridiculous Question for His Son - He's Fuming . Id see other happy families on vacation while I would bus their tables as an underage kid and say, is this it, Lord? , But, he said he realized, God was preparing me for something, to see artifice, to see lies.. But despite the uproar of the last few years, he still believes he has a support base. Couy's ex-wife, Kourtnie, is a 34 years old Iraqi war veteran who was born in the year 1986. This is yet another example of how lies about Dominion have damaged our company and diminished the publics faith in elections, Dominion spokeswoman Stephanie Walstrom said of Clements. Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, the founder of Cowboys for Trump, takes in the view from his ranch in Tularosa, N.M., on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Clementss strategy is to target his message locally: to county commissioners and clerks, jobs that are lower profile but that wield an outsize role in administering Americas decentralized election system. Copyright 2023 2nd Life Media AlamogordoTownNews.com. Is it my county commissioners or these people sitting here who had lunch with Donald Trump and the MyPillow guy?, On June 17, the states deadline to certify election results, Clements drove several hundred miles in his old Buick, hoping to stop commissions across New Mexico from approving the votes. Still, the audit rumbles on, and could yet have widespread implications. We was on Fox & Friends the next day.. For two hours, Clements who has the rumpled look of an academic, though he lost his business school professors job last fall for refusing to wear a mask in class spoke of breached voting machines, voter roll manipulation and ballot stuffing that he falsely claims cost former president Donald Trump victory in 2020.
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