The Colorado Sun: The top Republican in the Colorado House of Representatives,  as he was sitting in the back of a police vehicle two years ago, asked a state trooper not to disclose his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol to the media.

“If there’s anything we can do to kind of keep the press out of this, that would be great,” House Minority Leader Mike Lynch said, according to footage from inside of a Colorado State Patrol vehicle during the arrest in September 2022.

The State Patrol released the footage Friday to The Colorado Sun in response to an open records request. The agency initially said the video wouldn’t be available for many months.

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