¶ Lauren Boebert, Lou Vallario, and Garfield County Sheriff Office chronology, 2011-2023
This chronology covers the dated events that clarify the Boebert / Vallario relationship question: jail-volunteer access and records, 2020 local support / endorsement, 2022 complaint and investigation records, and the February 2023 dismissal order.
Included: dated events directly tied to Boebert, Vallario, Garfield County Sheriff's Office / jail records, American Muckrakers, or the complaint disposition.
Excluded: Vallario's broader ICE/DHS and sheriff-office policy chronology unless a source directly connects that lane to Boebert.
¶ 2011 and 2013
- Colorado Newsline / CTR reporting says Garfield County Sheriff's Office records show Boebert completed inmate-program volunteer training twice before her first recorded volunteer occasion.
- Why it matters: this helps separate training / access from actual volunteer-service dates.
- Source basis: retained CTR / Newsline article.
- The same reporting says GCSO volunteer attendance records show Boebert volunteered at the jail nine times over roughly two and a half years, associated with New Creation Church services.
- Why it matters: these records became a public-record counterpoint to Boebert's repeated
seven years jail-counseling campaign narrative.
- Source basis: retained CTR / Newsline article.
- Retained CTR reporting describes Vallario as one of Boebert's local supporters and quotes him in a pro-conservative-values frame from Grand Junction Daily Sentinel coverage.
- Why it matters: this anchors Vallario's visible local support before the fall campaign.
- Source basis: retained CTR article.
- Retained reporting identifies Vallario as having endorsed Boebert and reports his public defense of her arrest-history issue.
- Why it matters: this is a direct endorsement / legitimacy mechanism, not a money mechanism.
- Source basis: retained CTR article relying on Colorado Sun coverage.
- Retained reporting says Boebert repeated the Garfield County jail-counseling story during a campaign event in Silver Cliff.
- Why it matters: this shows the jail-volunteer narrative was campaign-facing.
- Source basis: retained CTR / Newsline article.
- A retained October 5, 2020 Lauren Boebert for Congress YouTube campaign-ad note adds a first-party campaign-ad layer for the Garfield County sheriff's public-safety endorsement of Boebert.
- Why it matters: this strengthens the direct public-endorsement / law-enforcement-legitimacy mechanism while still leaving money, official-resource, coordination, and campaign-finance questions separate.
- Source basis: raw video note; verify exact quotation and transcript spelling against the video before public-facing use.
- TRACER records discuss Vallario's Boebert robocall-script email, later found to have been sent only from Vallario to himself.
- Why it matters: this is the most direct campaign-script / official-email episode in the preserved complaint file, but the order treated it as an endorsement rather than a contribution on the record before the agency.
- Source basis: TRACER complaint package source note.
- TRACER records describe emails among Vallario, GCSO staff, and Boebert staff about Wheeler activity, safety concerns, and attempted TRO service.
- Why it matters: this supports an operational contact lane, not an unlawful coordination finding.
- Source basis: TRACER complaint package source note.
- A federal RECAP exhibit preserves a Garfield County County Court temporary civil protection order in Boebert v. Wheeler, case
2022C30220, filed at 4:51 PM.
- Why it matters: this directly anchors the TRO mechanism referenced in the TRACER email chronology. A later federal report and recommendation says GCSO was unable to serve Wheeler, but the native state-court service packet remains unretrieved.
- Source basis: federal RECAP TRO and disposition packet source note.
- OpenFEC records show American Muckrakers PAC made
7 anti-Boebert Schedule E expenditures in the 2022 cycle, totaling $843.45 in the retained slice.
- Why it matters: the PAC that filed or publicized the Vallario complaint was also a small federal anti-Boebert independent-expenditure actor.
- Source basis: OpenFEC American Muckrakers source note.
¶ 2022-08-19 and 2022-08-24
- OpenFEC records show American Muckrakers PAC reported two
GARFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF'S ANNEX RESEARCH disbursements totaling $305.
- Why it matters: this is a direct money flow from the anti-Boebert PAC / complainant actor to a sheriff-office payee, best treated as a likely public-records / research-payment mechanism unless invoices show otherwise.
- Source basis: OpenFEC American Muckrakers source note; TRACER complaint package source note for CORA chronology context.
- TRACER records say Wheeler received the CORA records from the Sheriff's Department.
- Why it matters: this links the complaint chronology to the public-records mechanism without proving special access or improper conduct.
- Source basis: TRACER complaint package source note.
- TRACER, the sheriff-office release, and later reporting state that David Wheeler / American Muckrakers filed the campaign-finance complaint against Vallario on this date.
- Why it matters: this starts the state complaint track.
- Source basis: TRACER complaint package; official sheriff-office PDF release; Aspen Times reporting.
- KJCT reports American Muckrakers asked DOJ/FBI to investigate allegations involving the relationship between Boebert and Vallario and county emails obtained through CORA.
- Why it matters: this broadens the public claim from state campaign finance to federal-investigation rhetoric, but does not establish proven misconduct.
- Source basis: KJCT article capture.
- TRACER initial-review records found potential campaign-finance violations and gave Vallario an opportunity to cure.
- Why it matters: this explains why the matter became an investigation track before later dismissal.
- Source basis: TRACER complaint package source note.
- KJCT reports that the Secretary of State was investigating alleged campaign-finance violations by Vallario and that he had ten days to respond.
- Why it matters: this is the clearest retained investigation-stage source.
- Source basis: KJCT article capture.
- TRACER records show a notice of investigation and a Division motion to dismiss.
- Why it matters: the same-day notice and motion show the matter entering investigation while the Division also concluded the preserved record did not support moving forward on the alleged campaign-finance violations.
- Source basis: TRACER complaint package source note.
- The TRACER order grants the Division's motion to dismiss and states the determination is final agency action.
- Why it matters: this is the direct disposition layer for the state campaign-finance complaint; it supports dismissal, not proof that the alleged conduct occurred.
- Source basis: TRACER complaint package; KJCT dismissal article, Aspen Times item, official sheriff-office release.
- Garfield County Sheriff's Office issued a PDF news release about the dismissal.
- Why it matters: this is direct evidence of the sheriff-office public response.
- Source basis: official PDF source note.
- KJCT published a short dismissal report.
- Why it matters: this provides a non-sheriff-office reporting layer for the disposition.
- Source basis: KJCT dismissal article capture.
- The 2020 endorsement / support evidence establishes a real public relationship.
- The retained 2020 campaign-ad note adds a first-party campaign communication layer to that endorsement evidence.
- The 2021 article using GCSO volunteer logs shifts the jail narrative from campaign biography to public-record dispute.
- The June 2022 TRO and attempted-service sequence sharpens the sheriff-office civil-process mechanism without proving misuse or coordination.
- The September 2022 complaint converts support and sheriff-office activity into a formal allegation track.
- The February 2023 dismissal closes the retained campaign-finance complaint track, while leaving the native CORA exhibits and GCSO fee records uncaptured.
- Retrieve the county email production / CORA packet before making detailed claims about complete routing, recipients, attachments, metadata, or official-resource implications of the emails.
- Retrieve GCSO invoices / receipts before treating American Muckrakers'
GARFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF'S ANNEX RESEARCH payments as confirmed CORA fees.
- Retrieve the native Garfield County County Court case
2022C30220 docket, petition, service packet, unserved return, fee records, and disposition before making detailed claims about the state-court TRO process.
- Reconcile the apparent January 17 certificate-of-service date inconsistency in the TRACER notice / motion documents if exact service dating becomes material.