Democrats cheat.

Have I mentioned that here? I think I have; I think about 500 times since October, 2026. For example, there is this recent scandal out of Denver, where the Rocky Mountain High makes people woke and unethical, apparently.

The Denver City Council voted overwhelmingly against a lease for Key Lime Air last December after learning the charter airline had contracted with federal immigration authorities to transport illegal immigrant detainees. Of course Key Lime had to be punished for working with ICE to, you know, enforce that law thingy. How dare they?

That vote created a problem, however: it violated the law. Federal Aviation Administration rules bar cities from treating airlines unequally based on political grounds or any other reason. The council’s pro-illegal immigration action put $90 million in federal grant funding for the airport in jeopardy. According to multiple sources, City Attorney Miko Brown attended a meeting last January 6 with airport and Mayor’s Office officials including airport Chief Executive Phil Washington, airport attorney Everett Martinez, the mayor’s interim chief of staff Emily Garnett, and other senior airport and mayoral staff. They agreed on a cover-up plan that involved concocting an investigation into the airline’s safety record, so that could be cited as the reason for denying the lease, thus preserving the $90 million grant.

Imagine: not a single official in the room had the integrity to say, “Hey, we can’t do this. It’s wrong!” Huh. I wonder why…

It is a rhetorical question.

Ah, but when Martinez was later placed on administrative leave, he filed a federal lawsuit against the city and spilled the metaphorical beans. The suit alleges that Brown suggested at the January meeting that Denver International Airport investigate Key Lime Air’s safety record. (Martinez could justify revealing in his suit what would otherwise be a breach of lawyer-client confidentiality by citing the crime-fraud exception, although in my view it doesn’t excuse his participation in the meeting.)

Mayor Mike Johnston’s office categorically denied the account as coming from “a disgruntled employee.” “The city attorney did not say the things listed here,” a spokesperson said. “No one called for a fake investigation on Key Lime.” Miko Brown sent a memo to her own staff stating “The alleged claims are untrue.”

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

CBS obtained an internal airport memo corroborating the details of the meeting. Written days after the conspiracy was hatched, the smoking gun memo was sent to the Denver airport’s vice president of airline affairs, who signed off on it as an accurate account of what was said. According to the document, Brown told airport officials: “Well you all should investigate Key Lime yourselves. If the FAA comes knocking, I want to be able to have in my back pocket that council was also voting because of safety issues but ran out of time to get to talking about that before voting.” The memo also states that Denver International Airport lawyer David Steinberger met with Brown again on January 9, and that she wanted him to again raise the fake safety concerns she had recommended at the first meeting. Brown emailed Steinberger with “continued questions about investigating Key Lime’s safety record” and “told him to relay to the group that they should continue considering safety violation inquiries into the Key Lime.” The memo, says Brown told Steinberger that “a bad argument is better than no argument.”

Nice.

Ultimately the plot was rejected by airport officials, but the fact that the meeting took place and the official denials are evidence of untrustworthy officials and deep corruption. The fact that the whole mess involved efforts to interfere with illegal immigration prevention measures is evidence of the ethics rot infesting the Democratic Party. The fact that CBS is the only national news organization that looked into the sordid story is evidence that Bari Weiss’s takeover of CBS news has already put a crack in the Axis propaganda wall.

As politicians and scumbags generally tend to do when they are caught red-handed, the airport and the city are so far following the tried and true Clinton strategy of “Deny, deny, deny.” Denver officials said they were unaware the internal Denver International Airport memo existed until CBS began asking questions about it. A spokesperson for Mayor Johnston said in a statement this week: “The only person who should be speaking on this case is the judge (in the Martinez lawsuit), who reviewed hundreds of pages of documents, sworn witness statements and listened to three hours of oral argument before stating there was no evidence of crime or fraud. There was no fake investigation and a memo written by the same person who filed the lawsuit does not change that.”

The city says no one else who attended the January 6 meeting will discuss it. Confidentiality, you know.