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Anderson Files: Furries, far right and the Colorado GOP
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Oct. 13, 2022
Volume XXX, number 9
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Furries, far right and the Colorado GOP which describes itself as “a leading anti-corruption and by Dave Anderson voting rights group with over four million members nationwide.” Nevertheless, the Denver Post reports that county clerks across Colorado are “bracing for a surge” of badfaith poll watchers and election judges who are “part of a nationwide attempt to manufacture evidence of election fraud.” Colorado is nationally known as the home of fervent election-denying Congresswoman Lauren Boebert and Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. But the national media has also discovered Joe O’Dea, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, because he seems “moderate.” at is, he’s a pre-Trump right-wing Republican with wretched policies. He mildly criticizes Trump and says Biden is president. He opposes gun control, denies climate change and rules out a shift away from fossil fuels for the “next 100 years.”
