City, county and economic leaders from Colorado Springs and El Paso County are siding with the president in pending litigation over the relocation of Space Command.<\/p>\n
Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser sued the Trump administration in October<\/a>, saying the political motivations for the move made it unconstitutional.<\/p>\n Late last year, the Colorado Springs City Council formally opposed<\/a> the lawsuit. The El Paso County Board of Commissioners followed suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n At a press conference on Wednesday, local leaders, including council president Lynette Crow-Iverson, commission president Carrie Geitner and president and CEO of the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC Johnna Reeder Kleymeyer, said they tried to stop the relocation and fought hard for Space Command to stay in Colorado Springs. However, they said the AG is acting in an adversarial way. Think the old proverb, “You get more flies with honey than with vinegar.” <\/p>\n \u201c(We) are putting partnership over partisanship and lawsuits. We would invite our Attorney General to do the same,\u201d said Kleymeyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Chamber & EDC announced plans to file an amicus brief, or a friend of the court filing, opposing the AG\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n Crow-Iverson said she fully supports keeping Space Command here, but now that the decision has been made to move it, she wants the city to move on.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSuing the president is politicizing the situation,\u201d Crow-Iverson said. \u201cIt’s not productive. It’s not the path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, Crow-Iveson acknowledged the political genesis of the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFrom our point of view, two wrongs don’t make a right. And so yes, the president might do his thing and say his memes and whatnot, but that doesn’t lessen the fact that the AG did not need to go that far,\u201d Crow-Iverson said. \u201cHe (Weiser) has sued him (Trump) 50 times. That is not helping the state of Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n AG Wieser and his office declined to answer questions on the filing of the amicus brief. The office did, however, provide a statement in which Weiser reiterated that the president’s actions were unlawful. <\/p>\n \u201cSome elected officials may choose to accommodate the Trump administration and its illegal intimidation efforts against states with which it disagrees \u2014 that is their choice,\u201d Wieser said. \u201cBut when Colorado is attacked and our sovereignty is threatened, it is my duty to protect our state and defend our rights.\u201d <\/p>\n Kleymeyer said, despite the amicus brief, the chamber isn’t on anyone\u2019s side.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re trying to be the adult in the room to say, you know what? Let’s stop fighting,\u201d Kleymeyer said. \u201cLet’s look forward to national security and protection of U.S. interests and stop the political theater.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n When asked if Colorado Springs fits the metaphor of a child in the middle of a bad divorce, she said, \u201cYes.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cWho usually loses in those fights? \u2014 The kid,\u201d Kleymeyer said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City, county and economic leaders from Colorado Springs and El Paso County are siding with the president in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[14442,145,138,1060,140,139,2672,7678,25817,56853,2558],"class_list":["post-132803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-colorado-springs","tag-donald-trump","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-military","tag-president-trump","tag-southern-colorado","tag-space-command","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}