Congressional Candidate Boebert Claims BLM Protesters Were "Paid and Bussed In" at Rally in Rifle [View all]
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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