#FREETINA
Tina Peters is finally scheduled to come home, and that matters more than most people in this country will ever fully understand.
Tina sat in a cell while the very system that should have answered her questions turned its machinery against her instead. She lost time that no court order and no commutation can ever give back. She endured what would break most people, and she did it without surrendering her conviction that Americans deserve to know their elections are honest. I have served alongside warriors my entire adult life, and I will tell you plainly that the measure of a person is not what they do when things are easy. It is what they hold onto when everything is being taken from them.
Tina held on.
To everyone who prayed for her, who refused to go quiet, who kept her name alive when the powerful hoped you would forget: you fought with honor.
Tina, you are coming home to a Nation that never stopped believing in you, and to a God who carried you through every single day of this.
Soon the nation will welcome you home.
Thank you Governor Polis.
I made mistakes, and for those I am sorry. Five years ago I misled the Secretary of State when allowing a person to gain access to county voting equipment. That was wrong. I have learned and grown during my time in prison and going forward I will make sure that my actions always follow the law, and I will avoid the mistakes of the past.
I strongly condemned it when people not connected to me threatened to storm the prison I am in. I myself have faced threats, so, I also want to be clear that I condemn any and all bullying, threats and acts of violence against voters, county clerks, election workers, and other public officials, and concerned citizens like myself.
Upon release, I plan to do my best through legal means to support election integrity and based on my own personal experiences to elevate the cause of prison reform to help ensure the detention system is more fair and equitable for people of all ages. My experiences have given me a perspective that plan to share with others to improve Colorado’s corrections system. I am grateful for a second chance and an earlier release, and I look forward to doing good in the world.