Tag: Constitutional Conservatives

By Sean Pond | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Earlier this year, I wrote in these pages that “The Constitution isn’t a suggestion. It’s a line in the sand.” I meant every word of it. I said I was done being quiet. I said this was no longer about politics, it was about survival. The survival of liberty, of local control, and of the rural Colorado way of life. I believed I was drawing that line on firm ground, in one of the last conservative strongholds in the state, Montrose County. I was wrong. This week’s recall of Commissioner Scott Mijares did not just remove one man from office. It erased that line in the sand. Not with a court ruling or a federal order, but with a ballot. With a local vote. If you think your county is safe from what just happened here, you are l...