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Repug Charged With Child Sex Crimes

For the second time this summer, a local Republican activist, campaign worker and former candidate has been arrested and charged with multiple child sex felonies. Last week agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation arrested Gage Montoya, of Trinidad, on multiple child pornography and weapons charges. This happened about three months after Weld GOP Chair Hunter Rivera's arrest in May for attempted sexual assault on a child and three other related felonies.

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The headline of the cited article is...
Former Republican Candidate Charged With Child Sex Crimes Has Close Ties to GOP Legislative Leader

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... Montoya worked as a corrections officer for the state Department of Corrections, but he also worked in Republican politics, both as a candidate and on at least one campaign.

Montoya ran unsuccessfully for Las Animas County Sheriff, terminating his bid for the GOP nomination several months before this year's June primary. He bowed out despite having raised over $9,200 in donations -- over 30 times more than either the other Republican or the incumbent Democrat. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-22 02:29 AM | Reply

We should just devote a running OP on drudge.com for these lunatics, populating the thread daily with stories of these Republican sex maniacs, pedophiles, and blaphemers.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-22 09:14 AM | Reply

TYPO fixed: "We should just devote a running OP on drudge.com for these lunatics, populating the thread daily with stories of these Republican sex maniacs, pedophiles, and blasphemers."

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-22 09:15 AM | Reply

"For the second time this summer, a local Republican activist, campaign worker and former candidate has been arrested and charged with multiple child sex felonies"

There is a general culture of this in Trump/MAGA. The offender no doubt assumed that he had permission and protection for this behavior, things that come from the very top.

Permission is correct. Protection? He probably can't bribe Trump sufficiently for that.

He should have planned his life better.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-22 10:29 AM | Reply

"Montoya, who was employed as a corrections officer for the Colorado Department of Corrections"

The Law and Order personality was a mask to hide a predator.

This is the case with almost everyone who portrays them as a Law and Order Conservative.

You know who you are.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-22 10:34 AM | Reply

The Law and Order personality was a mask to hide a predator.
This is the case with almost everyone who portrays them as a Law and Order Conservative.

Proving precisely correct as the days go by.

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-22 10:44 AM | Reply

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