J. Paul Brown has a history of bizarre, radical beliefs. Just do a quick Google search or look at his daily Facebook posts.
In 2010, he told his supporters, “Can you imagine what Barack Obama would do if we didn’t have guns? No telling what he’d do; this guy’s after power, let me tell you.”
Really? He said a provision in the Affordable Health Care Act called the Ready Reserve Corp, which created a corps of emergency medical practitioners for disasters like hurricanes, would be “Obama’s private army.”
Really? Brown also believed the UN was trying to take his guns and land. He told the Pagosa Sun in April 2010: “I tell you what I know, that you guys will stand right with me. It’s going to be civil war when they try to do that.” He added, “The United Nations is not going to tell us what to do with our guns and they’re not going to with our land, and they’re trying to do that all the time, right now.”
During his first term, he publicly prayed that a house panel would defeat a civil-unions bill for gay and lesbian couples. He later voted twice against banning gay-conversion therapy for minors.
J. Paul Brown was the only person in the Statehouse to vote against a homeless youth prevention bill. In the past month, he said he believes climate change isn’t man-made. He thinks if we plant more plants in Colorado, it will absorb the world’s carbon dioxide emissions.
Really?
After Donald Trump’s comments condoning sexual assault, Brown said, “I’ll stick with Trump.”
Brown was even invited to make opening statements at the Mike Pence rally in Durango. In a passionate speech, he parroted Trump’s rhetoric, saying not all immigrants crossing the New Mexico border speak Spanish.
Really?
In a moderate district like ours, we don’t need extremism. Pick up your ballot and fill in the bubble next to Barbara McLachlan.
We need common-sense representation in Denver.
Candace Richerson
Durango
