A comedy writer and documentary filmmaker is asking federal and state authorities to investigate U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, accusing the Silt Republican of abusing her position to squelch a political critic.
In letters delivered in late October to the acting U.S. attorney for Colorado and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, Toby Morton, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, resident, said he wants them to determine whether Boebert improperly used a congressional staffer and the assistance of law enforcement officials in an attempt to shut down a satirical website he maintains and discourage him from producing a film about the freshman lawmaker.
"Her actions against me to date have been predicated on legal threats, harassment, and intimidation," Morton said in an Oct. 25 letter to Weiser obtained by Colorado Politics.
"The most disturbing fact presented in this correspondence alleges that Representative Boebert called upon either Colorado state or local law enforcement to obtain private information from a police database for the purpose of disseminating said material on the internet via a third party," Morton wrote. "These events set a dangerous precedent that not only obstructs my right to engage in political commentary, and possibly my physical wellbeing, but also constitutes a clear and present danger to public order as we know it."
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