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Gabe Evans has a track record of lying about his record – and as revealed last week, his family history, too.
REMINDER: Gabe Evans has a complicated relationship with the truth…
- Evans has been fact checked by local and national outlets for lying about his support for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history.
- Evans repeatedly promised to defend Colorado’s clean energy economy – then went back on his word and voted to (in his words) “jeopardize” job-creating clean energy projects in his district.
- Evans regularly touts himself as a rancher who can relate to beef producers who are “feeding the world” – even though he doesn’t have any cattle on his land and only raised “two or three cows a year” before coming to Congress.
- As we learned last week, Evans regularly misrepresents his own family’s immigration history on the campaign trail.
Now, Evans’ own family is calling out his lies.
See for yourself…
Colorado Newsline: A century later, Rep. Gabe Evans echoes anti-immigrant attitudes his grandfather’s family overcame
- Immigration and Naturalization Services documents show that Evans’ grandfather entered the country illegally in 1929, and lived without lawful status for at least the following 12 years; was arrested for violating immigration laws and subjected to deportation proceedings in 1941; and had previously been arrested for attempted burglary.
- The documents contradict Evans’ previous claims that his grandfather immigrated “legally” or the “legal way,” and other misrepresentations he has made about key dates and details in Cuauhtemoc’s biography.
- “When Gabe started to misrepresent our father in his campaign,” [Evans’ aunt] added, “by portraying my dad as being in support of everything that Gabe is in support of — (that) would have pissed my dad off.”
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