When criminals and stupid people experience Karma

 It's so satisfying when criminals and stupid people experience Karma. In New Mexico earlier this month- one such fool was actually removed from office as a county commissioner (and he's mad about it). This is how society is supposed to treat criminals. Here's the story from the Santa Fe New Mexican. 

Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin barred from public office for life 

By Phaedra Haywood sfnewmexican.com Sep 6, 2022

State District Judge Francis Mathew has ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin removed from his post and disqualified from holding public office for life after finding Griffin’s participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol amounted to insurrection.

The Cowboys for Trump founder had argued during a bench trial in a civil case last month he was only exercising his First Amendment rights when he traveled to Washington, D.C., and clambered over three barriers to gain access to a platform outside the Capitol, where he cheered on a mob forcibly trying to enter the building as police attempted to hold the crowd back.

A federal judge in March convicted Griffin of trespassing during the rioting. He was acquitted of a count of disorderly conduct. He was sentenced in June to 14 days of incarceration but received credit for 20 days he already had served after his arrest.

Mathew didn’t accept Griffin’s argument in the civil case, in which plaintiffs successfully sought to remove him from office. The judge wrote in his ruling, issued Tuesday, Griffin’s attempts “to sanitize his actions are without merit” and are contradicted by evidence in the case.

“His protestations and his characterizations of his actions and the events of January 6, 2021 are not credible and amount to nothing more than attempting put lipstick on a pig,” the judge wrote.

“The irony of Mr. Griffin’s argument that this Court should refrain from applying the law and consider the will of the people in District Two of Otero County who retained him as county commissioner against a recall effort as he attempted to defend his participation in a mob whose goal, by his own admission, was to set aside the results of a free election by the majority of the people of the entire country (the will of the people) has not escaped this court,” he added.

Griffin called the ruling a “disgrace” Tuesday and said it was politically motivated. “I was shocked this morning when the county manager called me and told me they had already been in my office and confiscated my computer,” Griffin said. “That they had already changed the code on the door ... and that I’m no longer a county commissioner.”

OF COURSE HE CALLED IT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED -That's what Criminals do. They look for someone else to Blame for their stupid Behavior.

Griffin said he plans to appeal the ruling, in part on the grounds that Mathew did not have jurisdiction to remove him from office and the plaintiffs didn’t have standing to bring the petition because they weren’t from Otero County.

The nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, also known as CREW, wrote in a statement Tuesday, “This decision marks the first time since 1869 that a court has disqualified a public official under Section 3, and the first time that any court has ruled the events of January 6, 2021 an insurrection.”

Three New Mexico residents — Marco Alarid White and Leslie LaKind of Santa Fe and Mark Mitchell of Los Alamos — filed the petition against Griffin in March with support from CREW.   “I had been aware of Couy Griffin as a kind of provocateur before the insurrection and especially after,” White said. “He was making a lot of hay being one of the most visible Trump supporters in New Mexico and was willing to say and do whatever it was that grabbed the public’s attention and got him attention, no matter what the implications were.”

White said he was struck by a comment Griffin made in May 2020 at a Cowboys for Trump rally in Truth or Consequences: “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”

Under New Mexico law, “any private citizen of the state may file a lawsuit to remove a disqualified county official from office,” CREW said in a news release Tuesday. “Judge Mathew’s decision is fully supported by the facts and the law and justice,” Joe Goldberg, an attorney who argued the case before Mathew, said in the statement.

THIS IDIOT IS DANGEROUS: SO MANY ILLEGAL THINGS AND ENCOURAGING VIOLENCE Judge Mathew also noted Griffin aided the Stop the Steal movement as a featured speaker on a multi-city bus tour to “inflame crowds” and encourage people to go to Washington and stop the peaceful transfer of power from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden.

During that tour, the judge wrote, Griffin called on supporters to deny the results of the presidential election and used language that encouraged and normalized the use of violence to achieve political objectives. In one Jan. 4 speech in Atlanta, the judge wrote, there was video evidence Griffin “anticipated possible violence” in D.C., and said he was “calling men from across our nation ... because it might be a battle.”

Griffin also illegally breached security barriers, the judge found. “Mr. Griffin knew he should not have been at the Capitol,” the judge wrote, but “he stayed in support of the insurrection.” Mathew ruled Griffin became “constitutionally disqualified” from holding federal and state offices as of Jan. 6, 2021.

LAST WORDS FROM THE IDIOT Griffin said, if Donald Trump were to be elected president again, he would be interested in an appointed position — perhaps in the Department of Agriculture or Department of the Interior — in which he could continue his political activism on issues including immigration, gun laws and abortion rights.