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September 17, 2020 12:12 PM UTC

State Senate Candidate Lynn Gerber Is Latest CO Republican To Support QAnon

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  • by: Erik Maulbetsch

(QAnon takes the ‘burbs! – Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Lynn Gerber, Colorado GOP candidate for SD19

Another Colorado Republican state legislative candidate has joined the ranks of public QAnon supporters.

Over the summer Lynn Gerber, who is running for a senate seat in Jefferson County, posted a pair of conspiracy videos, one of which is QAnon-branded propaganda.

QAnon conspiracist groups have grown so rapidly and promote such extreme disinformation that last year the FBI labeled them a domestic terror threat.

Several other Colorado Republican candidates have shared QAnon-linked conspiracies on social media, most prominently Lauren Boebert who is running for the 3rd Congressional District, but also Gerber’s fellow statehouse candidates Samantha Koch and Vanessa DeMott.

On June 30, Gerber shared a QAnon video titled “COVID 911: The DEEP STATE Insurgency,” which compiles a myriad of conspiracies.

“This is the perfect tool to clear up any doubt as to those who still don’t ‘trust the plan,'” reads the post. “POTUS has been ten steps ahead of all the DEEP STATE actors and their attempt to throw the world into chaos and bring in their dream of the NEW WORLD ORDER. They can’t stop what’s coming. Q. Patriots Are IN control. #WWG1WGA #QAnonArmy.”

The breadth of the disinformation contained in the video is staggering. It claims the COVID-19 pandemic, which at the time had killed 130,000 Americans, is both a hoax and yet also a man-made biological weapon created at the orders of former President Obama and the Democrats in order to sway the election. It goes on to assert that Democrats orchestrated George Floyd’s murder in order to launch nationwide protests, inverting the actual timeline of events- a classic conspiracy feature.

Facebook fact-checkers flagged the post as false information, linking to a thorough debunking memo by the Lead Stories FactChecker site.

“Is the COVID-19 pandemic a conspiracy manufactured by ‘Deep State Democrats’ and the ‘mass media’ to disrupt, even rig, the upcoming presidential election in a bid to topple Donald Trump?” states the memo. “And did the coronavirus provide the perfect cover for the mass racial justice protests since the death of George Floyd after being knelt on for nearly nine minutes by a Minneapolis police officer? No, there is no evidence to support any of this.”

Gerber shared the post on June 30. Facebook’s fact-checkers debunked it less than 48 hours later. Nevertheless, it remained on Gerber’s page for more than five weeks; it wasn’t removed until sometime after Sept 11.

In July, Gerber shared another QAnon video as a comment on the “Reopen Colorado” page, in response to a post about Larimer County mask laws. Hollywood claimed County officials “overturned” a mandatory mask law in response to overwhelming popular objection, which isn’t exactly accurate. The complete timeline of Larimer County’s public health ordinances is available online, but essentially the county relaxed some aspects of the regulation in late May, and a county-wide mask ordinance is still in place.

In a comment on the post, Gerber shared a video from the “Patriotiq Gang” Youtube channel, featuring conspiracy theorist Jeremy Elliot, an actor whose alt-right monologue proposes that global corporations faked the coronavirus pandemic as a ruse for training Artificial Intelligence facial recognition.

“…there was no tuberculosis pandemic any more than there’s a coronavirus pandemic. What you’re really participating in is a beta test for AI systems and facial recognition. See these cameras work best when people are distanced apart. Now they are actually testing through machine-learning how to recognize a face that’s partially covered. It’s also a way to easily determine who’s compliant and who’s not. Who does the propaganda work on and who it doesn’t.”

The monologue originated on Elliot’s own podcast, which while it doesn’t mention QAnon directly, covers most of the same false narratives and is widely promoted by QAnon-branded pages and channels.

The Iconic Podcast describes itself as a outlet where “no subject is off limits and we talk about everything from conspiracy to reality.” The podcast claims that its main project is a dramatization of popular American conspiracies.

“America, LLC, our flagship original series where we demonstrate, in theatrical form, how the global power elite and the international bankers, through various secret societies, control the world,” states the podcast. “So, get your tin-foil hats ready and join us as we “‘imagine a universe where all the conspiracies are true.'”

As of publication, Gerber’s comment sharing the link remains online.

The campaign did not return a call requesting comment. This article will be updated with any response received. This article first appeared in the Colorado Times Recorder.

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16 thoughts on “State Senate Candidate Lynn Gerber Is Latest CO Republican To Support QAnon”

            1. My semi-encounter w/Waters/Woods was door knocking for Rachel.

              My encounter w/Carno was when she was pitching guns in schools in Longmont. She eventually quit taking my questions. devil

              Good trouble.

  2. "COVID-19 … is … a man-made biological weapon created at the orders of former President Obama" is bullshit.

    The virus was created in a Grupo Modelo laboratory under the direction of Putin. This is why it is called the Coronavirus. He released it in Wuhan to weaken Xi. Trump was informed of this in 2018 in Helsinki.

  3. SENATE 19 is the topic of a Magellan Strategies deeper dive.

    In February, 2020, there is a clear trend:

    Since November 2014, when a Republican last won this district, you can see that while Democrats have held steady at 31% of active voters, Unaffiliated/Other Party voters now make up 42% of the district and that growth has come entirely at the expense of Republican registration. …

    What was a fairly conventional swing district in 2014 (Cory Gardner and Bob Beauprez narrowly lost the district, while Cynthia Coffman and Walker Stapleton won) becomes by 2018, a district that voted for Democratic candidates by significant margins up and down the ballot. Where Governor Hickenlooper won by nearly 3,000 votes in 2014, now Governor Polis won by 10,000 voters in 2018. Where Cynthia Coffman won the Attorney General race by 5,300 votes in 2014, now Attorney General Phil Weiser won by 5,500 votes in 2018. Those kinds of trends are difficult to reverse,

    Stalwart Republican strategists / analysts at Magellan Strategies had a diagnosis:

    [This] is where the work ahead for the Republican Party should begin, not only registering voters but also persuading Unaffiliated voters that the Democrats in state government have overreached and offering them an alternative vision and plans for Colorado. That’s what it will take to run a competitive race in 2020,

    Somehow, I’m not sure this sort of “an alternative vision” is what they had in mind.

  4. Q Anon won’t take the burbs.

    Samantha Koch, running to represent House District 1 may be a Q Tipper, but she is also the sacrificial lamb the R party throws at the wall*  when they know they can’t win on ideas or candidate quality. 

    House District 1 is a heavily Democratic area, just east of me in SW Denver/ Jeffco area. It’s mostly working and middle class folks. Susan Lontine won it with 64% of the vote in 2018.

    The same dynamic applies to Jeffco’s HD29, which term-limited Tracy Kraft Tharp won with 58% of the vote in 2018. Dem Lindsey Daugherty would have to screw up badly to lose to the QTip Vanessa DeMott here in this “blue wave” year.

    * Yes, I do like my mixed metaphors, thank you. 

  5. When I was younger I wondered how the German people could have backed Hitler with such devotion.

    Now I know.

    Watching the weekly "Freedom'' rallies of big trucks with Trump and American and occasional Confederate flags with men armed to the teeth cruising Grand Junction's North Avenue is frightening.

     

    1. It is really hard to understand this tribalism/hyper-partisanship. What is in it for them other than to be on the "winning team?" The closest I can come to relating is professional sport fandom. I really enjoyed watching the Nuggets beat the Clippers. Why? I do not have any personal connection to any of the players and when they win, I get nothing tangible out of it. But, they are my "home team," and they seem like decent humans (even if the Kroenkes/Waltons are not). I guess I can rationalize my irrational fandom because no one ends up in cages, dying of Covid, or without health insurance no matter how much I root for a bunch of millionaires playing with their balls.

  6. Hot take here: QAnon candidates are in fact Democrat plants there to help save their majority! 

    That makes infinitely more sense than Tom Hanks or Joe Biden being a pedophile…so, thank you to the crazy lady with a frog obsession for helping Sen. Zenzinger keep her seat! 

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