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January 05, 2021 01:56 PM UTC

Boebert Says Polis Sends Nazi "Brown Shirts" to Enforce Health Orders in Her District

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R).

Angry about Colorado’s public health orders requiring restaurants to restrict services during the pandemic, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) accused Colorado Gov. Jared Polis of sending “Brown Shirts in to make sure everyone shuts down.”

“Brown Shirt” is a term used to describe a member of the Sturmabteilung, Hitler’s Nazi militia that attacked and often killed opponents of Hitler’s rise to power.

“Here in Garfield County where my restaurant is, restaurants are closing once again because Governor Polis has sent his Brown Shirts in to make sure everyone shuts down,” Boebert told KVOR’s Jeff Crank Dec. 26. “It is sad. It is depressing. Business owners cannot pay their employees. They will not be able to pay rent. We’re worried about all of these folks who won’t be able to pay their rent. But what about the actual mortgages? Who’s going to hold the owners of these buildings and help them out? You know, all of this is just a mess and we need to reopen our country for business.”

State Rep. Patrick Neville (R-Castle Rock), who was the Republican House Leader at the time, said last year that Polis’ stay-at-home orders could lead to a “Gestapo-like mentality.” The Gestapo were the Nazi secret police.

Polis tearfully responded to the accusation in April.

“As a Jewish American who lost family in the Holocaust, I’m offended by any comparison to Nazism,” said Polis, as quoted in The Denver Post. “We act to save lives — the exact opposite of the slaughter of 6 million Jews and many gypsies and Catholics and gays and lesbians and Russians and so many others.”

Polis is Colorado’s first Jewish and openly gay governor.

Neville later apologized, telling the Denver Post that he should have said “authoritarian” instead of “Gestapo.”

Under state rules, Garfield County restaurants have faced a range of restrictions at various times during the pandemic, including limitations on indoor seating and mask-wearing requirements.

Other Republicans and GOP groups, in Colorado and elsewhere, have compared COVID health orders to Nazism, without singling out Polis.

Boebert slammed the proposed stimulus package aimed at helping business owners and residents.

“These stimulus checks, Jeff, they are basically Amazon gift cards,” she told Crank. “The Democrats have closed small businesses. So when you’re sending out these checks, we’re just lining [Amazon founder Jeff] Bezos’ pockets up.”

Public health officials have criticized Boebert’s stance against public health orders and her campaign events that did not follow social distancing recommendations.

Boebert’s actions are “stoking mistrust” of “heroes” who work in public health,” said a Colorado doctor last year.

Last month, Boebert accused Durango, Colorado, Mayor Dean Brookie of wanting to “starve” local restaurants out of business by enforcing COVID health orders. Brookie responded by saying that “people in our community are dying” and that “we don’t need this type of rhetoric in our community.”

Polis himself has been characterized as a Brown Shirt before. In a 2018 Facebook post, the Jefferson County Republican Part suggested the aspiring governor form a club on how to be a “Brown Shirt for fun and profit.”

Efforts to reach Boebert were not successful.

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13 thoughts on “Boebert Says Polis Sends Nazi “Brown Shirts” to Enforce Health Orders in Her District”

  1. Only Boebert could be talking about The Gestapo as she prepares to overthrow the Constitution in an attempt to establish authoritarian right-wing rule that can never be voted out of office.

  2. So that means she'll be a solid YES on a 2021 stimulus bill that would expand PPP (and other support for small businesses) while we try and manage our way through Ttumpy's utter failure in developing a national plan to get everyone vaccinated? 

  3. Moscow Mitch has toiled long and hard to make sure that the country teeters on the brink of depression and will eventually get there if he continues to have his way.

    But Qbert, in her brain fart intellectualism, doesn't give Moscow Mitch the credit he deserves and settles on Polis and the generic Democrats as the enemy of tainted pork sliders across the country.

    When will her & hubby's pasts get sufficient exposure that her life-by-polemics has to contend with the probing questions that she has to answer?

    1. Moscow Mitch is, indeed, the evil mastermind. A “Free Market” charlatan without peer.

      One of the prime directives is to do whatever possible to drive down wages… and keep them there. His water carrying for the American Taliban, Inc. is the negotiated price for their allegiance. 

      Our local congressional gunslinger has no clue about the worldwide implications of the insane point of view she claims to champion. Mitch and real populism have never met. He considers himself an aristocrat who shares Fat Donnies’ revulsion with poor people.

       

        1. It does appear promising.  Several analysts have already called the race for Warnock, saying his win is likely even out of the range of a recount.

          And according to a link into the GA Secretary of State site, the other race stands at

          99.92% Precincts Reporting | 98% expected vote   Jan. 06, 2021 4:53 am [adjusted to Mtn time]

          Dem   Ossoff, Jon          2,208,717   50.19%
          GOP   Perdue, David i   2,192,347   49.81%

           

          1. See how difficult it is for us to keep talking about Boebert, on a Boebert post? But back to the subject – I feel rather certain that Ossoff's lead will hold. It's a great day – and will be even greater when the Electoral Votes for President ONCE AGAIN demonstrate that Biden and Harris will be sworn in on January 20.

            And FYI: Boebert is going to be more than an embarrassment. She could easily be drawn into a net that will end her political career before her two-year term is up. 

              1. If the NR were being completely honest: . . .

                ” . . . And, hell, they probably shouldn’t have in the first place”

                 

                Think the NR will be doing any ex Denver Post facto — Gardneresque endorsement retractions??

                  1. Seen on the interwebs: 

                    <two months from now>

                    Republicans: Why is Don Jr. in our backyard?

                    Other Republicans: Is he drunk? What does he want?

                    Republicans: I'm going out there.

                    Other Republicans: CAREFUL! They carry diseases. In their mouths. Just call animal control.

                    Republicans: Shoo! Shoo!

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