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Trisha Calvarese: “You're asking people to elect you to use tax dollars to pay…”

Featuring: Trisha Calvarese, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Colorado, District 4

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Episode 205 - Trisha Calvarese wants to represent Colorado’s CD4 in the US Congress

Published | Video Starts at 23:49

And when they had that first panel discussion and somebody asked, who here has criminal record? And Boebert and everybody raised their hand, and it was a laughing matter. Yeah, I don't think anything's funny about that. You're asking people to elect you to use tax dollars to pay for you to be a lawmaker, and you're celebrating the fact that you shirk the law. Right. But it is what it is. Kind of funny that the guy they finally selected to be the placeholder, he had them all beat in terms of being arrested and not just for anything. (23:49–23:59)

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Criticizes candidates for celebrating legal infractions while seeking public office funded by taxpayers.

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