Representative Elizabeth Velasco, the first Latina legislator from the Western Slope, was the subject of degrading emails circulated by senior Garfield County law enforcement officials  using government accounts. She was called “POS” and “GARBAGE” by men with badges and guns. This is real harm. A three-foot artistic rendering of an absent candidate in the form of a piñata at a political event is not. At a recent candidate forum  in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District — the