By Frank Sturgell January 26, 2026

It seems simple and even petty, but not filing an oath of office has enormous legal repercussions if an officer of the executive branch or a judge does not file an oath to support the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado, support the laws of their duties, and faithfully perform the duties of their office. Article XII, Section 10 states that an office is vacant if an officer has not filed an oath of office.

The legal repercussions of this are at least the following:

• Contracts signed by the person posing as an officer in a vacant office are null and void.
• Actions by the department that the poser is faking to represent have no legal merit. For example, any actions by the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) to punish a person have no meaning. The person does not have to accept the punishment.
• Reports submitted by the person posing as an officer do not legally exist. This means that the Sunset Review reports signed by Patty Salazar, posted online, and submitted to the General Assembly do not legally exist, which also means that all the “regulatory” boards have been sunsetted and do not legally exist.
• Anyone affected by Patty Salazar’s failure to be in office, which is all of us has the right to file a lawsuit against her and DORA for any harms that have been committed against the citizen.
• Licenses administered by corporations, but issued by DORA may be invalid depending on each board’s approval process and whether the boards have oaths of office. Knowing much of the lawlessness that happens in those boards, it is doubtful whether those corporate board members have an oath of office on file.
• The money and benefits that posers of an office have been paid, must be given back to the People. They were not in office, but took pay from that office nonetheless.

If a lawsuit is filed for no oath of office against an officer of the executive branch, it is doubtful that a Colorado district court judge not protecting the damage done to the State the poser. Governor Jared Polis has said he has never checked if any of his appointees have an oath of office and has never withheld a paycheck or punished an appointee for this failure.

The Senate has never bothered to check and has no statute or rule demanding that an oath of office be on file at the Secretary of State prior to approval either. This seems ridiculous. The Senate is supposed to screen appointees prior to approval. They obviously do not. The entire General Assembly is literally are the Governor’s rubber stamp crew, no matter the color of the party.

All of the people and organizations that are supposed to be a check on balance on the other branches are in cahoots regardless of color of party to protect their shared bribers. The only ones that will ever rid the government of crime are you.

“It’s one big club (of crime) and you ain’t in it.” – George Carlin

Article 12, Section 8 of the Colorado Constitution is very clear, “Every civil officer” must have an oath of office. The Office of the Executive Director of the Department of Regulatory Agencies is definitely a civil office. It is the most powerful agency for protection for the wealthy in the State of Colorado.

Article 12, Section 8 of the Colorado Constitution is muddier, but still leaves no doubt that any officer of a department in the executive branch must have an oath of office on file with the Secretary of State.

A Deputy Executive Director such as Ginny Brown also must have an oath of office on file with the Secretary of State at the very least to assume duties if the Executive Director is on leave for any reason or is simply traveling for the department, which obviously happens often according to expense sheets of the Slush Fund To Hush of C.R.S. 24-34-108, which can be seen below:

Why wouldn’t an officer of the executive branch file an oath of office with so much as all the decisions of the entire department and personal costs such as pay and benefits on the line if they do not? As was said at the top, it’s a petty and simple action that does not take up much time. So why not, Patty? Anyone that has done even a little research on DORA’s actions and intentional actions to avoid following law, knows that DORA is a lawless cesspool of racketeering and crime to protect the wealthy and their chief servants in many ways including stifling competition, particularly superior competition. So many of the societal ills of the State emanate from DORA including poverty, mass homelessness, excessive property taxation, racism, and misogyny. DORA is corporate rule with extreme authoritarian obedience. DORA is NOT a regulatory agency. How did Patty Salazar get an award from the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce when she is not in business, but in the government? This is an even odder award considering the misogyny at DORA that includes 100% of banker’s licenses issued at DORA, but administered by the American Banker’s Association are given to white men. (Source: FDIC)

Once it is understood how DORA is organized, it becomes very clear that no real regulation goes on there. Signing an oath of office will subject an officer not following laws to charges of perjury of oath of office, which is a felony. Malfeasance was lowered from a felony to a misdemeanor by the General Assembly about 3 years ago. Only government officials and C corporation executives can be criminally charged with malfeasance. No one in the General Assembly has followed their legally demanded duties of oversight called Sunset Reviews per CRS 24-34-104 since at least 1992 when the law’s author Jerry Kopel retired from the General Assembly. It was written to hold DORA accountable to the People.

Patty Salazar came back to Colorado after working in the administration in the State of California. She was appointed as Commissioner of Financial Services in November 2015 and Deputy Executive Director of the Department of Regulatory Agencies in 2016. She was chosen by Governor Jared Polis to assume to Executive Director of DORA in 2019 with Brown as her Deputy Executive Director, but neither have ever taken office.

Both Salazar and Brown were given a Colorado Open Records Act CORA request on January 3rd, 2026 to prove that they have oaths on file. They chose to violate CORA and not respond. State statute C.R.S. 24-72-204 demands a response within 3 days to either produce the requested record or ask for an extension of time by the government official that holds the record. It has been more than 20 days as of this writing. Neither Salazar nor Brown have responded to the request or their 14-Day Notice to be sued for their lack of response, which is telling. They have many crimes to cover-up.

Normally, an oath of office is just a piece of paper with some certain words and some names scribbled on it, but this failure to do such a petty task is a harbinger of what is really happening in each of those departments.

Sources: Google Drive Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1XLAw-3spvNO1-0NfdLCELv-dgWqYoGbP

Mega Folder:

The rest of C.R.S. 24-12-101: