Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas has sued her commissioner colleagues, the latest turn in more than two years of public bickering, as she seeks to recoup legal fees she paid to defend hersel…
Key to the justices’ ruling was the idea that the county attorney could not represent both the commissioners and the treasurer in adversarial litigation. So Adams County had an obligation to cover the legal charges billed to Culpepper, “who, but for the conflict of interest, would be represented by the county attorney’s office.”
“If you’re going to use the legal system to target other officeholders, then either you have to pay those legal bills out of your own pocket, or you have to pay everyone’s legal bills out of the public’s pocket,” McGill said. “And then you have to explain to the public why you’re doing that.” A deputy who resigned cited the dissemination of a letter containing “false information” about her. Thomas acknowledged circulating the anonymous employee letter, which outlined a wide array of leadership deficiencies and conflicted relationships at the agency, at the 2022 Douglas County Republican Assembly.
That investigation was handed over to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, the lawsuit states, and it found no probable cause to believe misconduct was committed by Thomas. Teal said Thomas is “spinning the lawsuit as an act of free speech and that she is some kind of whistleblower.”
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