Colorado’s leading Holocaust denier is no longer just a novelty.

The last: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, Republican nominee for Secretary of State, faces 10 criminal charges after a grand jury indicted her in a tampering and misconduct investigation elections.

• Peters went to the county jail hours after an arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday. She sat there for hours and did not immediately post bail, reports the Grand Junction Sentinel.
• In an extraordinary move, Colorado GOP Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown called on Peters to suspend her campaign later Wednesday, suggesting it would hurt the party’s chances of winning the 2022 election.

Why is this important: Peters, a little-known local elected official, became a national cause celebre among former President Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists by falsely claiming she had proof that the 2020 voter records had been destroyed.

What she says: In a lengthy statement released by his campaign, Peters called the indictment “a procedural announcement.”

• She faulted the Democratic Party for “using legal power to indict political opponents” – even though the indictment came from a grand jury convened by a Republican district attorney.
• And she rejected the call for her campaign to be suspended, saying “knowledgeable Republican voters in the June primary will take a look at these bogus accusations.”

To note : This is his second arrest in a month.

• In February, she was charged with obstruction of justice after trying to kick a police officer executing a search warrant in an unrelated case.

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