Stephenson: About that Lift Vodka investigation

CRS 44-3-307 (2)(b) says that a peace officer described in CRS 16-2.5-103 (Sheriff) is prohibited to “operate a licensed premises that is located in the same jurisdiction that employs the peace officer.”

CRS 44-3-407(1) (a) requires wholesalers to get a license for the premises where it stores and, in DiSalvo’s words, “schleps” bottles to restaurants. 

The gift from Lance Armstrong to our sheriff is not nominal nor for a special occasion. Labor Day is now a “special occasion” to receive a gift? One has to ask why the ownership was first denied and then identified as a 5% gift off the books. As Bob Braudis himself would say, “If it doesn’t pass the smell test ….”

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Ann Stephenson

Basalt