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Related: About this forumCongressional Candidate Boebert Claims BLM Protesters Were "Paid and Bussed In" at Rally in Rifle
Colorado congressional candidate Lauren Boebert is claiming that Black Lives Matter protesters in her hometown of Rifle, Colorado, were paid and bussed in, despite a complete lack of evidence to support this claim.
During a July 6 radio interview, Boebert, a Republican who recently upset five-term incumbent Congressman Scott Tipton in the Republican primary race for Colorados 3rd Congressional District seat, said that protesters created an illusion of division in our city.
In Rifle, Colorado, Black Lives Matter was paid and bussed in, and it really just created an illusion of division in our city and thats just not true, and so thats one aspect of it that I dont favor, Boebert said after an awkward pause when KOA News Radios Mandy Connell asked for her take on the movement and recent protests.
Boebert then characterized the Black Lives Matter movement as trying to elevate one group or class above another.
Read more: https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/07/congressional-candidate-boebert-claims-blm-protesters-were-paid-and-bussed-in-at-rally-in-rifle/26806/
Rhiannon12866
(220,290 posts)A lady told me that they were saying we were bused in from New York City and paid by George Soros... Apparently that's what they always say.
TexasTowelie
(116,301 posts)Of course, you can always tell the MAGAts that the protesters were the last people leaving Woodstock.
Rhiannon12866
(220,290 posts)It was several hundred protesters - and a handful of MAGAts - and of course they were the ones to start trouble, blasting a megaphone and disrupting traffic. It became enough of an issue that there was discussion of prohibiting protests - and I went to my first one there to protest the impending invasion of Iraq. As for there being out-of-towners, I saw seven people I knew, not counting a local DUer who told me she was there and wished she'd known I was, too...
joshdawg
(2,705 posts)Right wingers don't need no stinkin' evidence!
diverdownjt
(711 posts)If it feels right...that's good enough.
Don't forget They always accuse US of the thing's they are doing now.
SOP baby.....