Meet Laurel Imer.
The 49-year-old God-fearing right-wing extremist ran for the Colorado House of Representatives in 2020, where her Democratic opponent, Monica Duran, beat her in an absolute landslide. Now she is trying again. And this time, it targets the US House of Representatives.
Imer hired her then 16-year-old son Weston to be her campaign manager in 2020. Now she hired him again, since she doesn’t have to pay him, he turned out to be a such a trump card last time.
Before working for his mother, Weston volunteered for the Trump campaign and briefly – very briefly – interned for Qanon Congresswoman Lauren Boebert for six days before resigning after being locked up. inside the United States Capitol during the insurgency, which he said was “a little scary.” (He blames “Antifa and BLM” and not the MAGA militia for all of this BTW.)
According to the Progressive Voters Guide, Laurel Imer is about as despicable as a politician can be these days:
Imer is clearly a fan of Trump, saying we should “end the COVID chaos” and in a recent campaign press release named Black Lives Matter as a “national terrorist group.” She supports Trump’s racist “America First” policy and enjoys being in the company of other right-wing racists and conspiracy theorists.
On her campaign website, she spits out the usual uber-conservative and QAnon talking points.
She hates immigrants, loves guns, thinks the 2020 election was rigged, doesn’t want to teach children about slavery and thinks there needs to be less “political indoctrination” in schools, and says that “Cultivation cancellation is a very dangerous weapon used and manipulated.” from the left.
“We must do all we can to stop this harmful tool,” says her website, promising that she “will fight in the public arena against the awake cancellation of public figures.”
As for LGBTQ people, her record is unclear, but given her feelings towards other minority groups, we can’t imagine that she gives us too much esteem either.
In addition, she supports Jack Phillips, this homophobic baker from Colorado who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
Hey Colorado, you’ve already delivered Lauren Boebert to us in 2020. Can we please not rehearse with Laurel Imer in 2022?
Graham Gremore is editor and editor at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
