A Republican candidate for Colorado governor has made bizarre and false claims about the current governor, Jared Polis, among them that he’s not really gay, was once married to a woman whom he abused, and sexually assaulted a female colleague.
Danielle Neuschwanger, who is one of several candidates running in next year’s Republican primary, made the remarks at an event in Cañon City Monday night, the Colorado Times Recorder reports.
“An audio recording provided by an attendee documents Neuschwanger’s remarks on a wide range of topics, including the corrupt culture of campaigns, lawsuits against the state over mandates, ‘crazy’ GOP constituents, a legislative candidate advocating to ‘ban the gays’ and gay adoption, government secrets about the JFK assassination, and rival Republican gubernatorial candidates,” the paper reports.
“Toward the end of her comments, Neuschwanger said, ‘You guys want to know something crazy about Polis? He’s not even gay,’” the article notes.
“I didn’t know any of this until, like, we got involved in politics,” she said. “So his real name is Jared Schutz, and he was married to a woman, who he used to abuse the heck out of.”
When Polis first became involved in politics in the early 2000s, she alleged, he was approached by Democratic strategists who wanted to appeal to gay voters. “Tom Gill was already a well-known gay activist, and so they figured out the way to get the gays in Colorado was to have someone run for governor who is gay,” she said,...
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