A federal political action committee created by U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is bankrolling a Colorado ballot measure this year that would make it more difficult to redraw the boundaries of the state’s congressional districts outside of the process already laid out in the state constitution. The American Revival PAC gave $250,000 in August to the Fair Redistricting Colorado issue committee, which is working to pass Amendment 86 in November. ## ☀️ READ MORE ### Conservative-backed redistricting measure makes Colorado ballot ▶ FULL STORY The leadership PAC was created by Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, in 2017. It’s funded by other political action committees tied to Johnson that serve as his fundraising vehicles for Republican candidates and causes. The only other money Fair Redistricting Colorado has received came from Advance Colorado, the conservative political nonprofit that brought the measure. The group doesn’t disclose its donors. A second issue committee, Brighter Colorado, is also supporting the measure. Its major donors include Advance Colorado and Common Sense America, another conservative political nonprofit that also doesn’t disclose its donors. Advance Colorado is behind six of the 13 measures on the statewide ballot this year. And while its donors remain secret, the fact that the American Revival PAC is backing Amendment 86 is a major sign that its influence, and the people and groups influencing its work, span far beyond Colorado’s borders. Colorado Draws the Line, an issue committee tied to Democrats, says it will fight Amendment 86. But the group, which shares the same name as a nonprofit that doesn’t disclose its donors, hasn’t reported raising or spending any money yet. Amendment 86 was Republicans’ response to a Democratic redistricting effort in Colorado that sought to put a measure on the November ballot asking voters to amend the state constitution and redraw the state’s congressional districts for the 2028 and 2030 elections. The initiative, funded by money tied to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, would have overridden Colorado’s normal, once-a-decade redistricting process, which last took place in 2021 and resulted in a new congressional map for the state that went into effect for the 2022 election. The new districts drawn by the Democratic proposal would have given Democrats an outsized chance at flipping three seats held by Republicans, leaving the GOP with only one of the state’s eight seats. ## ☀️ READ MORE ### Colorado Supreme Court rejects Democrats’ ballot measures asking voters to redraw state’s congressional map ▶ FULL STORY #### Editor’s picks ## How one small-scale Colorado rancher has withstood drought, rising costs and Trump’s plan to import beef ## Snack, side dish, center plate: Colorado’s Soul Food Scholar has recipes for climate-friendly black-eyed peas ## Why a world-traveling mountaineer is teaching kids to sew in a small Colorado town But the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled in June that the Democrats’ ballot measure violated the “single subject” requirement in the state constitution, which requires that ballot initiatives have only one central purpose. Amendment 86 would change the state constitution to require that Colorado’s Independent Redistricting Commission reconvene and hold public hearings to review any Colorado congressional map redrawn ahead of the normal 10-year process. The amendment, which requires the support of 55% of voters to pass, would also require that the Colorado Supreme Court review and approve any state congressional map redrawn in the middle of a decade before it could go into effect. The court would be forced to reject any map that fails to keep “communities of interest” whole, as well as any map that was drawn to favor one political party. #### Type of Story: News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx on Friday announced fellow Marine veteran George Markert as his running mate. George Markert. (U.S. Marines) Markert, a retired Marine colonel, originally ran for U.S. Senate this year but failed to make the primary ballot. The Broomfield resident moved to Colorado about three years ago as he settled his family after leaving the military. “It’s an opportunity to serve,” Markert said on 710 KNUS, a conservative talk radio station where Marx announced the pick Friday morning. “It’s an opportunity to step up and lead.” #### Editor’s picks ## International adoptions by Colorado families have dropped to lowest on record ## There’s never been a Native American on Colorado’s wildlife commission. State tribes want that changed. ## One Boulder couple’s response to climate change: Grow trees, lots of trees, and give them away When he ran for Senate, his first bid for public office, Markert called himself “a constitutional conservative and proud supporter of President Trump’s America First agenda.” Marx said he picked Markert because of his ability to get things done. “You have to have a governor and a lieutenant governor who have a backbone,” he said. Friday was the deadline by which Marx had to announce his running mate, who will become lieutenant governor if Marx is elected to lead the state. Marx and Markert face the Democratic team of Attorney General Phil Weiser and Jefferson County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper in November. #### Type of Story: News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.

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With luck, we’ll know Tuesday night who our next governor will be. History tells us the winner of the Bennet-Weiser Dem primary is pretty much a lock. There has been only one Republican governor in Colorado over the past 50 years, and if Victor Marx wins the GOP primary — can he really be the favorite? — it could set the party back another 50 years. But what we know for sure is that come next January, Jared Polis, who is term limited, will no longer be governor. And I think I could predict the same even if he weren’t term limited. As I’ve mentioned often enough, Polis wrote his political obituary when he granted clemency to election grifter Tina Peters, freeing her from prison on June 1 even as her sentencing was being reconsidered by order of the Colorado Court of Appeals. Everyone has a theory as to why Polis has made himself a pariah in his own party, but if you read the recent Denver Post op-ed written by two members of Polis’ 11-person clemency advisory board, it gives you a good idea how they see it. And it’s not pretty. Two longtime board members, both appointed by Polis, both Denver lawyers who have been public defenders, fault Polis for, among other things, stepping all over the judicial system, ruling for the powerful and well connected and fast-tracking Peters’ commutation in a system that often takes years to proceed. #### **Want early access to** **Mike’s columns?** Subscribe to get an exclusive first look at his columns twice a week. SUBSCRIBE As Azra Taslimi and Hanna Seigel Proff wrote, “Tina Peters’ clemency is the two-tiered system operating exactly as it always has, rewarding proximity to power, and leaving everyone else to absorb the cost.” And they’re not alone. Twice, the governor sent Peters’ application to the 11-person clemency board he had appointed. Twice, the board said no. Both times unanimously. “The governor granted her asylum anyway,” Taslimi and Proff wrote. “The problem is not about Tina Peters’ case in isolation. It is what his decision reveals. That the system bends for some and holds firm against everyone else.” You don’t often hear from members of the clemency advisory board, and there’s good reason. Not only are their meetings held in secret, but the board members don’t even take notes and they rarely publicly discuss their recommendations to the governor. Why did Taslimi and Proff break the code of silence? Before writing the op-ed, they had gone public for an article in the New York Times, with Proff saying of Peters’ commutation, “It really was a punch in the gut. It flies in the face of justice.” Proff added: “Some of these applications bring us to tears. Ms. Peters’s application just felt empty.” In the op-ed, they wrote that Peters’ applications were “performative,” probably written by her lawyers, and did not show any kind of real remorse. They said it was the kind of application for clemency that they routinely deny “because performative accountability does not warrant mercy under our set criteria.” Of course, the board is just advisory. Polis often rejects their findings. It’s his right. But in this case, Taslimi and Proff thought the public needed to understand the context of his actions. A clemency hearing is a hearing of last resort. Most applicants, unlike Peters, have gone through all their appeals. Many of the applicants the board approves, unlike Peters, have made real changes in their lives and have passed the are-you-more-than-the-worst-decision-you’ve-ever-made test. “Clemency is not a shortcut. It is what remains when every door has already closed,” they wrote in the op-ed. And clemency is what remains when lawyers are often no longer available. When applications are handwritten from the inmates’ cells. When they may not hear anything about their applications for years. When they are not able to question why the appeal went against them. Taslimi and Proff want you to know who the people left behind are. “It would be dishonest to tell this story without saying plainly what it reflects,” they wrote. “The people in our queue are not a random sample of Colorado. They reflect what decades of unequal justice have built. Hispanic Coloradans make up roughly 21% of the state’s population, but over 32% of its male prison population. Black Coloradans make up just 4.5% of the state’s population, but 18% of its male prison population. “Empirical data show that people of color are treated more harshly than their white counterparts at every stage, the harm compounding at every turn. They arrive at our table having already lost so much, asking with whatever dignity they have left for one act of grace from a system that has shown them very little.” They added that consistency in how clemency is awarded is what makes the process “defensible.” Yet, the Peters case, they wrote, “broke quickly and dramatically, for the benefit of Tina Peters. It is with all of those people in mind that we say what happened here was wrong.” We know Peters proved the board right and Polis wrong. She had absolutely no remorse for her voting machine tampering. On her first day out of prison, she went on Steve Bannon’s podcast to say she had been convicted for being a, uh, truth-teller, that she was the victim, that the vote rigging was real, that the Democrats cheated in the 2020 election and that she is still appealing her sentence. ## ☀️ MORE FROM MIKE LITTWIN ### Littwin: Polis would be gone even if he weren’t term-limited 3:05 AM MDT on Jun 28, 2026 ### Littwin: Dem gov race could dictate the future — an old senator or perhaps a history-making new one 3:05 AM MDT on Jun 24, 2026 ### Littwin: In the wake of Trump’s humiliation in Iran, he has only one card to play — lie 3:05 AM MDT on Jun 21, 20269:00 AM MDT on Jun 22, 2026 #### Editor’s picks ## Steamboat Springs gravel race organizers baked cookies and knocked on nearly 300 doors to win over rural neighbors ## Fort Carson soldiers get new dining options thanks to celebrity chef ## Pity the lonely brook trout: How to stop an invasion with this one genetic trick I don’t know if Polis caved to Trump, who pushed for her release by constantly punishing Colorado while calling Polis “weak” and worse. I’ve been told that Polis wanted to grant her clemency, as a first-time, non-violent offender, as soon as the sentence was set. He somehow believes, then and now, that the 9-year sentence was too heavy, but his advisors warned him a commutation would be a political disaster. Sometimes the advisers get it right. But Polis argues that his clemency decision was not political, but made in proud defense of the First Amendment. He even invoked — all humility way aside — the ACLU’s defense of the would-be neo-Nazi marchers in Skokie, Illinois, to defend his overwhelmingly unpopular decision. In any case, Trump is still out there in support of Peters. In a Truth Social post — as noted by John Hickenlooper in a campaign email — Trump recently asked the MAGA cultists who read his social media well of disinformation whether he should “clear her name and compensate her” for her time spent, in Trump’s words, as a political prisoner. I think we can safely predict the result of Trump’s entirely unscientific poll. And we can predict this, too — there won’t need to be any rigging for MAGA voters to get to “yes.” Just as there was no rigging needed for the Colorado clemency board to unanimously get to “no.” * * * __Mike Littwin has been a columnist for too many years to count. He has covered Dr. J, four presidential inaugurations, six national conventions and countless brain-numbing speeches in the New Hampshire and Iowa snow__. _Sign up for Mike’s newsletter._ * * * The Colorado Sun is a nonpartisan news organization, and the opinions of columnists and editorial writers do not reflect the opinions of the newsroom. **Read our ethics policy for more on The Sun’s opinion policy**. Learn how to submit a column. Reach the opinion editor at opinion@coloradosun.com. 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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday cut former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ nine-year prison sentence in half and ordered the 70-year-old, who has become a national martyr for election conspiracy theorists, to be released on parole June 1. Peters’ sentence for orchestrating a security breach of her county’s election system in 2021 in a failed attempt to uncover voter fraud is now four years and four and a half months under a clemency order issued by the governor. ## ☀️ READ MORE ### Tina Peters isn’t the first Colorado convict to become a central figure in a governor’s race ▶ FULL STORY “She, because of her incorrect and unpopular speech, got an unduly harsh sentence,” Polis said Friday in an interview with The Colorado Sun, adding that he believes her new sentence is still “very harsh.” “I’m not pardoning her,” he explained. “I publicly have said very early on I would not even consider a pardon. She’s a convicted felon. She deserves to be a convicted felon. She will remain a convicted felon.” The extraordinary, but expected, decision puts Polis at odds not only with fellow Democrats, but also with many Republicans in Colorado — including the man who prosecuted Peters and a list of conservative local elections officials outraged by Peters’ behavior. “This signals that it’s open season on our elections and election officials,” said Matt Crane, who leads the Colorado Clerks Association. Crane is a Republican and the former clerk in Arapahoe County. Peters, in a post on social media, thanked Polis and said she was sorry for the mistakes she made. But she also indicated she planned to continue talking about elections. “I plan to do my best through legal means to support election integrity,” she said. “I am grateful for a second chance and an earlier release, and I love forward to doing good in the world.” > Thank you Governor Polis. > > I made mistakes, and for those I am sorry. Five years ago I misled the Secretary of State when allowing a person to gain access to county voting equipment. That was wrong. I have learned and grown during my time in prison and going forward I will make… > > — Tina Peters🇺🇸 Whistleblower of fallen Navy SEAL (@realtinapeters) May 15, 2026 The governor’s move — which comes as Polis and Colorado have faced mounting criticism and retaliation from President Donald Trump — also likely ends any speculation about his political future as a Democrat. By commuting Peters’ sentence, Polis, who has been mentioned as a possible presidential contender, has probably neutered any chance of rising in his party’s ranks. “FREE TINA!” Trump posted on social media Friday afternoon after the clemency news was announced. #### Letter from Polis to Peters Download The governor’s closest advisers have privately counseled him against inserting himself in Peters’ case, warning of the intense political risks. Polis’ decision, which came as he announced clemency for dozens of other people convicted of crimes in Colorado, will also likely cast a pall over his last six months in office and make him a pariah among fellow Democrats. He is term-limited and cannot run for reelection in 2026. The governor brushed off the political consequences of his decision. “I view my job as governor as one where I always try to do what’s right,” he said. “Ultimately, I believe people like me because I try to do what’s right. I try to do what’s right regardless of whether it’s popular and regardless of the politics of it.” By waiting until two days after Colorado’s 2026 lawmaking term ended to announce the clemency decision, Polis avoided damage to his legislative agenda. Democrats at the Capitol had telegraphed that they wouldn’t work with the governor if he let Peters out. But by not waiting until later in the year, his announcement interrupts the judicial process. ## Peters’ conviction Mesa County District Judge Matthew Barrett was preparing to resentence Peters as directed by the Colorado Court of Appeals, which found in April that the nine-year sentence he issued “was based in part on improper consideration of her exercise of her right to free speech.” “Her offense was not her belief, however misguided the trial court deemed it to be, in the existence of such election fraud,” the appellate judges wrote. “It was her deceitful actions in her attempt to gather evidence of such fraud.” A date for her resentencing hasn’t been set. Polis told The Sun he opted to wait until after the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Peters’ challenge to her sentence before taking action. “I had many of the same concerns that the appeals court,” he said, “which was basically that because of her unpopular and incorrect conspiracy beliefs, she was punished more harshly than usual for a crime that she committed. I’m a strong supporter of free speech. I share and vehemently disagree with the way Tina Peters chooses to use her free speech. But it’s a free country, she’s free to do it.” Gov. Jared Polis has faced public pressure from President Donald Trump to pardon Tina Peters. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun) But the governor did not explain Friday, when asked, why he didn’t wait for Barrett to resentence her. Peters was convicted in August 2024 of three counts of attempting to influence a public official; conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation; official misconduct; violation of duty; and failure to comply with an order of the Secretary of State. A Mesa County jury acquitted Peters of three counts: conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, criminal impersonation and identity theft. ## ☀️ READ MORE ### Gov. Jared Polis commutes sentences of 9 people, including some sentenced to life without parole ▶ FULL STORY Peters and others persuaded a Mesa County computer engineer to join her office as a part-time computer expert in the elections office. The man, Gerald Wood, went through a background check and was given a badge for access to secure elections rooms. But he never entered those rooms. His access pass was instead given to Conan Hayes, an election conspiracy theorist, who used Wood’s identity to attend a sensitive election system software update. Photos taken during the update were then posted on the internet, a major security breach that led Mesa County to discard its voting equipment and buy new machines. The scheme was part of an effort by Peters to uncover election fraud in Mesa County and across the country following false claims by Trump that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Trump, who has fought for Peters’ release and symbolically pardoned her, won Mesa County in 2020 by 28 percentage points. Local prosecutors investigated the election malfeasance claims made by Peters, based on the “evidence” collected during the Mesa County security breach, and found nothing. ## **Swift condemnation from Democrats** Big-name politicians in Colorado were quick to condemn Polis’ decision Friday. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who was notified about the clemency action about an hour before it became public, told reporters it’s a “dark day for democracy.” Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat whose office helped prosecute Peters, said it was “mind-boggling.” “The judge imposed a reasonable sentence based on her criminal conduct, she has shown no remorse for her crimes, and now the governor is taking this unwise and unprecedented step of releasing her from prison early,” Weiser said in a written statement. “Caving to this president will only lead to more abuse from the bullying Trump administration. Today is a sad day for Colorado and the rule of law.” Weiser is running to replace Polis as governor next year alongside U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, another Democrat, who said Friday that he vehemently disagrees with Polis cutting Peters’ sentence short. Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Shad Murib said Polis set a “dangerous and disappointing precedent.” **“** There are real cases that deserve the Governor’s attention and action,” Murib said. “This is not one of them.” The Colorado County Clerks Association said it was “furious, disgusted and deeply disappointed.” Matt Crane, executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association, speaks to audience members after appearing on a panel at SunFest 2024. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun) “Rather than standing with those public servants and defending one of our nation’s most cherished rights, the right to vote, Gov. Polis is bending the knee to the same political forces and conspiracy movements that are actively undermining confidence in our democratic institutions,” the organization said. “That choice carries consequences far beyond this single case.” County clerks said they felt abandoned. “There is no escaping the significance of this moment,” the statement said. “This is now Gov. Polis’ legacy. He will not be able to run from it or redefine it later. When given the opportunity to stand firmly for the rule of law, for the integrity of Colorado’s elections, and for the public servants who defend them, he chose a different path.” Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein, the Republican who led the prosecution of Peters, called cutting Peters’ sentence short an “irresponsible act” driven by “a misguided and misunderstood reason.” “Our system is designed for appellate courts to correct legal errors if they exist,” Rubinstein said. “That process was still underway, yet the governor chose to substitute his judgment for the courts, the sentencing judge, and the Mesa County community that bore the consequences of Ms. Peters’ actions.” Rubinstein called it a “sad day for Mesa County citizens.” Some Republicans celebrated Polis’ move. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Windsor, called it “a long-overdue step toward justice.” ## Polis dropped many hints Polis began dancing around the question of whether he would offer Peters clemency at the start of the year. He suggested to some journalists that he would consider letting the former clerk out of prison early. To others, he seemed to fully reject the idea. At times, it was difficult to interpret what he was thinking. “If she is very ill or has, you know, cancer, we would do something like we would for any nonviolent inmate in that situation — we consider getting them out,” he told The Colorado Sun in early January. “We’re always going to look at the sentence and how long and what it is. She is elderly.” Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters at the GOP Assembly in the World Arena on April 9, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun) Then, in March, Polis all but said he was going to let Peters out. He went on social media to contrast Peters’ sentence to the probation sentence received by former Democratic state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis. Jaquez Lewis was sentenced to probation and community service, at the request of Denver prosecutors, after being convicted of one count of attempting to influence a public servant and three counts of forgery. The case stemmed from the Boulder County Democrat’s fabrication of letters of support that she sent to the Senate Ethics Committee, which was investigating Jaquez Lewis’ treatment of her Capitol aides. ## ☀️ READ MORE ### All 66 Democrats in Colorado’s legislature sign letter urging Jared Polis not to shorten Tina Peters’ prison sentence ▶ FULL STORY “It is not lost on me that she was convicted of the exact same felony charge as Tina Peters — attempting to influence a public official — and yet Tina Peters, as a non-violent first time offender got a nine year sentence,” Polis wrote on X. “Justice in Colorado and America needs to be applied evenly, you never know when you might need to depend on the rule of law.” After that post, all 66 Democrats in the Colorado legislature sent the governor a letter urging him not to let Peters out. “This is about the security and assuredness of our elections,” the letter said. “This is about the future of our democracy, and of free and fair elections in our nation. We ask you to stand with us in safeguarding the future.” The letter said that clemency is “for those who have taken accountability for their crimes, understand the harm they have created, and made good faith efforts for restitution to victims and self-rehabilitation.” Gov. Jared Polis hands a pen to state Rep. Javier Mabrey that he used to sign a housing bill into law at the Colorado Capitol in Denver on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun) It’s true that the governor typically reserves his clemency powers for people who have shown remorse or rehabilitation in prison. Peters has not publicly admitted fault and has continued to fight her conviction on the grounds that she was improperly prosecuted. But Polis said Peters admitted wrongdoing in her private clemency application. “I made mistakes four years ago,” Polis read from her application. “I misled the secretary of state when allowing a person to gain access to county voting equipment. That was wrong. Going forward, I will make sure that my actions always follow the law, and I will avoid the mistakes of the past.” #### Editor’s picks ## 101 bills that passed and failed in Colorado’s legislature this year that you need to know about ## How microplastic research in Denver’s South Platte River can help a first-of-its-kind study ## The rivers, lakes and hot springs of Colorado we love most But the governor added that nobody gets clemency from him just because they are sorry. “That’s ridiculous,” he said. “Ninety-nine percent of prisoners would say they’re sorry if it got them out. It’s really about disparate sentences.” Polis said he’s not sure how Peters will act, or what she will say, upon her release. “I will almost certainly disagree with things she says in the future,” he said. “But it is a free country, and she is absolutely as entitled to say things that she believes as you, or as me, or as any other American — as long as she follows our laws.” _This is a developing story that will be updated._ ## Trump’s actions against Colorado President Donald Trump has loudly, publicly and repeatedly objected to the conviction and sentencing of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for crimes related to an election system breach in 2021. For years, Trump’s complaints served primarily as a rallying cry for election conspiracy theorists. But after he returned to office in 2025, Peters’ conviction became one of a number of issues state officials believe was used to justify political retaliation against the state, with real impacts for Coloradans. Federal projects that had received bipartisan support have been refused funding while longtime research and employment centers have been shuttered, slashed or relocated. * **Disaster aid for wildfire and flood recovery —** In December, Trump denied disaster funding to help northwestern Colorado recover from wildfires and southwestern Colorado recover from flooding. * **Rural clean water pipeline in southeastern Colorado —** In December, Trump vetoed a bill that would have provided funding to complete the Arkansas Valley Conduit, a pipeline to carry clean water to communities in southeastern Colorado. * **Environmental transportation grants in Colorado —** In December, the Trump administration canceled $109 million in transportation grants awarded to Colorado for projects with an environmental focus. The funds would have paid for increasing the use of electric vehicles and EV charging options, rail improvements and research into hydrogen and natural gas-powered trains. * **National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder —** In December, the Trump administration vowed to break up NCAR, which has been headquartered in Boulder since 1960. The center employed more than 800 people. * **Relocating U.S. Space Command —** In September, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. Space Command would relocate to Alabama from its temporary headquarters in Colorado Springs. Alabama and Colorado have long battled to claim Space Command. Trump said Colorado’s “very corrupt voting system” played a part in his decision. * **SNAP recertification —** In December, the Trump administration issued an order that would have forced Colorado to recertify recipients of federal food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. The order would have required the state to conduct in-person interviews with nearly 100,000 households before they could receive assistance, an impossible task state officials viewed as punishment. A federal judge in January blocked the order. #### Type of Story: News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.

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# Mayor’s Report Card Jan 16, 2026 ## During his first two full years in office, Mayor Mike Johnston has fallen short on his commitments as a candidate to improve mobility, access, and transportation safety in Denver. While he entered office with clear plans, strong voter mandates, and urgent safety needs, progress has slowed and, in some cases, been undermined or moved in the wrong direction. This report card evaluates Mayor Johnston’s performance by comparing what he promised as a candidate with what he has done during his administration, and outlines clear actions to improve his grade. See below for highlights from the report card, or download the full report card in English [PDF] or in Spanish [PDF]. Download the 2-page summary in English [PDF] Read the full report in English [PDF] Download the 2-page summary in Spanish [PDF] Read the full report in Spanish [PDF] **For more details on what the candidate Johnston promised, what has happened during his term, and how the Mayor can improve his grade download the full report cardin English [PDF] or in Spanish [PDF].** PRIMARY AUTHORS: DENVER STREETS PARTNERSHIP, GREATER DENVER TRANSIT, DENVER BICYCLE LOBBY, PEDESTRIAN DIGNITY