CO-01: Progressive leaders criticize Melat Kiros (D) for declining to call deadly Boulder firebombing antisemitic
Three progressive leaders in Colorado are criticizing democratic socialist Melat Kiros, who is running to represent the 1st Congressional District in Denver, for refusing days before the primary election to call the deadly firebombing attack last year on a Jewish community rally in Boulder antisemitic.
One of the leaders is a state representative who has endorsed Kiros.
Kiros’ comments and the criticism come as the 29-year-old first-time political candidate appears to be on the cusp of unseating Democratic U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette amid a wave of discontent with Democratic incumbents.
“I don’t know what was in the heart of the perpetrator,” Kiros said in a recent interview with 9News. “All I know is that he went and attacked innocent people because of what they might have believed. I don’t even know what the people that were at that protest believed, too. In fact, most of them were just there to ask that the people who were kidnapped during Oct. 7 be returned home to their families.”
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to re-election.
Kiros’ take on the possible motive for the firebombing displays a level of cluelessness that cannot be overlooked.