Documentary evidence submitted by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in a lawsuit filed in March in New Mexico district court on behalf of three New Mexican citizens seeking to remove Otero County Commission Couy Griffin from office for participating in the January 6 insurrection
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“First Amendment Scholars Say Jan. 6 Rioter Is Subject to ‘Constitutional Command’ Disqualifying Insurrectionists from Holding Public Office” by Marisa Sarnoff, lawandcrime.com August 10, 2022
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
You are all wrong about my friend, Couy Griffin. I have spoken to this man in person, and know him to be a good friend. Sorry, you have determined to slander him in your paper. Phillip F McCabe
He may be a good friend to you but he does not wish most of us well. And he has made this clear many times, culminating with his childish and destructive antics on January 6th, 2021.
You are all wrong about my friend, Couy Griffin. I have spoken to this man in person, and know him to be a good friend. Sorry, you have determined to slander him in your paper. Phillip F McCabe
He may be a good friend to you but he does not wish most of us well. And he has made this clear many times, culminating with his childish and destructive antics on January 6th, 2021.