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TexasTowelie

(116,301 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 04:46 AM Jul 2020

Congressional 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 Colorado’s 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 that’s just not true, and so that’s one aspect of it that I don’t favor,” Boebert said after an awkward pause when KOA News Radio’s 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/

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Congressional Candidate Boebert Claims BLM Protesters Were "Paid and Bussed In" at Rally in Rifle (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2020 OP
That's what the handful of MAGAts said about the protesters in my neck-of-the-woods Rhiannon12866 Jul 2020 #1
MAGAts can't imagine anybody being opposed to their way of life. TexasTowelie Jul 2020 #2
The last one I went to protested the "kids in cages" and I was pretty impressed with the turnout Rhiannon12866 Jul 2020 #3
Evidence? joshdawg Jul 2020 #4
Don't need no proof.... diverdownjt Jul 2020 #5

Rhiannon12866

(220,290 posts)
1. That's what the handful of MAGAts said about the protesters in my neck-of-the-woods
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 04:51 AM
Jul 2020

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)
2. MAGAts can't imagine anybody being opposed to their way of life.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 04:58 AM
Jul 2020

Of course, you can always tell the MAGAts that the protesters were the last people leaving Woodstock.

Rhiannon12866

(220,290 posts)
3. The last one I went to protested the "kids in cages" and I was pretty impressed with the turnout
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 05:13 AM
Jul 2020

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...

diverdownjt

(711 posts)
5. Don't need no proof....
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 06:55 AM
Jul 2020

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.....

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