By Trent Leisy
Scott Bottoms, a Navy veteran, pastor, and father of a young family, has emerged as the rare conservative willing to take on the powerful insiders that career politicians protect.
In a stunning challenge to Colorado’s entrenched power structure, State Representative and Republican candidate for Governor Scott Bottoms is demanding a full independent audit of the Colorado Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office by an external special auditor from outside the state.
Bottoms introduced a resolution calling for transparency in the judicial branch after gathering what he describes as extensive evidence of systemic corruption spanning years.
“I just presented a resolution to try to call for a special auditor to come from outside the state of Colorado to audit our Supreme Court Judicial System and our Attorney General. We have pages and pages and pages of information that show corruption going back quite a few years.”
“The Supreme Court investigated themselves and found themselves innocent. Attorney General Phil Weiser is blocking outside audits. Democrats voted unanimously against transparency… They accuse me of just politicking. That’s why I did this. I will continue to uncover corruption. We are a broken, corrupt state and I’m gonna get to the bottom of it.”
Bottoms’ resolution highlights whistleblower documentation suggesting hundreds of millions to potentially billions in misused taxpayer dollars and judicial irregularities. The Democrat-controlled committee killed the measure along strict party lines, refusing any outside scrutiny of the state’s highest court and top law enforcement office.
This explosive push is central to Bottoms’ “Colorado DOGE” platform — modeled after federal efficiency efforts — which calls for sweeping audits, agency sunset reviews, real-time open ledgers, and zero-based budgeting to expose and eliminate waste and corruption in Denver.
Trent Leisy is Communications Director, Scott Bottoms for Governor.