Posts Tagged ‘Alice Nichol’

The audacity and to be quite frankly the stupidity of many of the current and former leaders of Adams County never seeks to amaze.  In an interview with CBS4 former Adams County Commissioner Larry Pace bragged about how he fleeced the taxpayers for eight years. Pace is the leading opponent to Adams County Ballot Issue [...]

Last week it was announced that Adams County Commissioner Alice Nichol would not face criminal charges for her involvement with the Quality Paving scandal.  The conclusions reached in the investigation far from absolved her and other officials of responsibility and her response was comical. The investigation was conducted by Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey.  [...]

Running for political office is an expensive endeavor, even at the local level.  Delving into current Adams County Commissioner candidates’ donor records reveals big contributions from special interest groups and even from the same disgraced politicians we are trying to rid ourselves of. Every election year I write a story about campaign contributions to the [...]

By Kevin Raines - In November, two county commissioner seats will be up for election in Adams County, and the current occupants of those seats will leave public office. This is a very, very good thing. In fairness, not every recent scandal can be traced directly to departing incumbents Skip Fischer, Alice Nichol, and their buddy Larry [...]

Plagued by scandals, the Adams County Democrats may have found a way to jettison their biggest liability.  In a public hearing today disgraced Commissioner Alice Nichol announced she was changing her political affiliation to unaffiliated. During the Elected Officials’ Communication portion of the public hearing, Nichol simply announced, “After 50 years as an Adams County [...]

By Kevin Raines - In the movie Apollo 13, there’s a great scene about crisis control.  As the emergency begins, systems are failing and gauges are dropping and there’s a tinge of panic building in the air.  Ground control members are calling out problems nonstop when Gene Kranz steps in and changes the direction of the [...]

Following on their inability to conduct a timely and accurate assembly with only 350 voters, the Adams County Democrats have released the results.  Embattled Adams County Commissioner Alice Nichol failed to achieve enough support to move forward to the primary and in her place the Democrats are nominating union activist Charles “Chaz” Tedesco. The writing [...]

Saint Patrick’s Day was a big day in politics locally as Republicans and Democrats gathered to establish the issues and candidates that will be going forward leading up to November’s elections.  While the Republicans competently completed their work, Adams County Democrats are in disarray and don’t even know the results of their assembly. We have [...]

Here on Tony’s Rants we use the term ‘Adams Family’ (first coined by Complete Colorado) to describe the inbred corruption amongst Adams County’s elected officials.  Now we find out that the dirty dealings go beyond just those elected officials with a (D), it also runs in family blood and has infected a local school district. [...]

State Senator Mary Hodge and Representative Cherylin Peniston have represented Adams County for many years but sat silently through dozens of scandals in Adams County and refused to take a stand for their constituents.  Now, faced with a public uproar, they are desperately trying to save their political careers by forcing an ethics measure on [...]