Debate highlights: Polis and Stapleton on Trump, Bernie, Jovan Melton and that '99 police report

Republican state Treasurer Walker Stapleton spent parts of Colorado’s second-to-last gubernatorial debate trying to turn a 1999 police incident involving his opponent, Democratic Congressman Jared Polis, into a scandal.

Several times during the debate Wednesday evening at Colorado State University, Stapleton ignored questions posed by moderators and called attention to a 19-year-old Boulder police report, unearthed last month by the conservative news outlet The Washington Free Beacon, about an altercation Polis had with a female employee at the Boulder office of JPS International LLC, a company he ran at the time.

Over and over, Stapleton highlighted Polis’s admission to police that he pushed the employee, Patricia Hughes.

What Stapleton failed to say is that Hughes was found by police to have been stealing business information from Polis on her last day of work, when the incident occurred. He didn’t mention that Hughes was hitting Polis with a bag when he pushed her off of him. And he omitted the fact that police did not find Hughes credible when she claimed that Polis injured her or prevented her from calling police.

Read more: https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2018/10/17/debate-polis-stapleton-governor-colorado/