Convicted MAGA election denier declines job in California amid pressure from Newsom

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Set us as preferred Tina Peters, who served prison time for tampering with voting machines on behalf of the MAGA movement, has declined a job offer helping to oversee elections in a conservative Northern California county.“She declined the offer because she’s running around the country right now trying to secure the elections,” Clint Curtis, the Shasta County registrar of voters, said in an interview Tuesday.“Shasta County lost out.” Last month, Curtis set off alarm bells across California by telling reporters he planned to hire Peters, a former county clerk in Colorado who was released early from prison this summer amid a pressure campaign by President Trump.Curtis, himself a longtime election denier, told The Times he had planned to hire Peters as a consultant “to assist with supervision of the November election.” Peters’ attorney, Peter Ticktin, said in an interview Tuesday that she had given serious consideration to the job offer but that he had not discussed it with her in recent days.

It would “not have been a full-time position,” because she is so busy, he said.“There’s far more for her to do than get tied up in one county,” Ticktin said.“At this point, she is an American icon.

I mean, think about it: How many people meet with the president of the United States in the Oval Office?” In California, talk of hiring Peters drew swift condemnation from Gov.Gavin Newsom and other Democratic lawmakers who vowed to fight her employment.

On Monday, Newsom wrote in a sarcastic post on X: “A convicted MAGA election tamperer working in an elections office.What could possibly go wrong?”He added, in all caps: “TINA, NOT IN CALIFORNIA! ELECTION DENIER FELONS NOT WELCOME HERE!!!”In a separate social media post, the governor’s press office called the job offer “a disgrace” and said Newsom ha...