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Local Republican officials successful Colorado opportunity a planned play fundraiser successful Denver for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was canceled aft nan GOP and nan hosting edifice received threats. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo
May 4 (UPI) -- Local Republican Party officials successful Colorado opportunity they canceled a scheduled fundraiser for South Dakota politician and U.S. vice statesmanlike hopeful Kristi Noem owed to alleged decease threats.
The Jefferson County, Colo., Republican Party connected Friday canceled Noem's fundraiser and quality planned for Saturday successful Denver aft receiving "numerous threats and/or decease threats."
The threats were directed against "our organization, nan edifice and to nan politician and her staff," Nancy Lappozi, chair of nan Jefferson County Republican Party, said successful a news release.
The fundraiser was scheduled astatine nan West Marriott edifice successful Denver.
Lappozi said edifice officials contacted nan Jefferson County GOP statement regarding "deep concern" astir "alarming comments" received from "political extremists" and imaginable harm to those attending nan event, edifice guests and staff.
"We understand location was a planned organized protestation extracurricular nan edifice led by Progress Now, a George Soros-funded organization," Lappozi said successful reference to nan Hungarian Jewish billionaire frequently cited by blimpish and right-wing groups arsenic a conspiratorial funder of wide causes. "We could not return nan consequence that those who made threats would origin beingness harm."
Lappozi said nan past threat made against nan arena was contained successful a voicemail connection saying location would beryllium "guns astatine nan protestation and group mightiness get hurt."
Excerpts from Noem's pending book release titled No Going Back: The Truth connected What's Wrong pinch Politics and How We Move America Forward, person triggered a fierce backlash against her from some Republican and Democratic critics and Lappozi speculated that contention whitethorn beryllium down nan threats.
The book is scheduled for merchandise Tuesday and includes passages astir Noem shooting a young family canine she said was dangerous.
Noem's book besides says she antecedently encountered North Korea leader Kim Jong Un while she was a personnel of nan U.S. House Armed Services Committee, which others opportunity ne'er happened, Politico reported.
Noem besides says Nikki Haley allegedly threatened her during a telephone telephone made successful 2021, but Haley's unit says nan telephone telephone was successful 2020 and nary threat was made during nan conversation.
