Does Chacon know what her job is?
Renee Chacon, ostensibly a Commerce City Council Member, made the news again recently. Not for anything having to do with what some might consider the important job of serving as an elected official of Commerce City’s government, but for yet another of her many civil-justice-warrior antics.
And this time, she is being joined by fellow-traveler and wanna-be city council member Lucy Molina.
Colorado Public Radio ran a story about how Chacon and Molina have banded together to help thwart federal law enforcement. This adds to a long list of examples, in which Chacon eagerly bandies about her “city council member” title, while engaged in far-left activist pursuits that have nothing whatsoever to do with governing Commerce City. The list includes:
Speaking at a pro-Hamas rally at the State Capitol on the day of the Governors State of the State Address
Pushing for the renaming of Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
Testifying at the legislature against a Democratic bill to classify nuclear power as clean energy
Giving an interview at an anti-ICE march where she was quoted as calling for the President’s arrest and deportation, and claiming “no justice, no peace”
And the list goes on. With all that activism, one wonders how she finds time to actually be a Commerce City Council Member.
Perhaps that contributed to CPR’s confusion, where in the initial version of the story they referred to Lucy Molina – the somewhat divisive political activist and School District 14 Board Member who wanted to become a Commerce City Councilmember – as, in fact, a Commerce City Councilmember.
Now, to be fair, CPR has since quietly corrected its mistake, perhaps recognizing that they ought to just let the voters of Commerce City decide who they want to serve on their local city council.
Those voters already expressed their democratic displeasure with Molina once, and they can’t be terribly impressed with her recent antics on the District 14 Board when she verbally attacked actual Council Member Craig Kim for voicing concerns about a new District hire.
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And if Molina does want to make another run at governing a city as crime-ridden as Commerce City, perhaps she should spend a bit more time focusing on the issue of how to keep law-abiding Commerce City residents safe, rather than chasing headlines by ostentatiously opposing law enforcement?
Or, perhaps she is simply taking from Chacon’s playbook, and intends to ride the coattails of the “council member” title, while treating the job itself as a mere side gig that she can parlay to advance her real priorities?