Posted on 01/08/2025 11:08:17 AM PST by bitt
'It gives Johnston cover, should it become public.'
Mike Coffman (R), the mayor of Aurora, Colorado, accused Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) of facilitating a covert migrant relocation scheme that led to a severe increase in gang activity in Aurora.
In a Monday op-ed for the Denver Gazette, Coffman blamed Johnston for the ongoing immigration and gang crisis, claiming he partnered with two non-governmental organizations to move foreign nationals from Denver, a sanctuary city, to other neighboring towns.
Coffman, who has come under fire for his role in allowing illegal aliens to settle in Aurora, defended his decision in November to grant Johnston permission to use a Quality Inn hotel to house "busloads of migrants that were overwhelming Denver."
"I initially said yes, but it soon became apparent that beyond giving the newly arrived migrants a 30-day hotel voucher, he had no plan for them other than leaving them homeless in Aurora," Coffman wrote.
He claimed that he demanded that Johnston pick up the migrants and transport them back to Denver.
"He did, and from that point forward, I turned down his requests for further assistance," Coffman said.
He declared Johnston "talks incessantly in political sound bites."
Coffman cited in his article a City Journal report that indicated Johnston had drafted contracts with NGOs to house migrants in and around the sanctuary city.
Specifically, the report claimed that one of the organizations partnered with CBZ Management, a property management company, to move migrants to three of its Aurora apartment complexes: the Edge of Lowry, Whispering Pines, and Fitzsimons Place, which is also known as Aspen Grove.
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...””He had known about this for a while and knew that Denver had been moving Venezuelans into Aurora. Coffman’s weak leadership allowed this to happen. He also learned through APD [Aurora Police Department] that Tren De Aragua had moved into North Aurora in December of 2023. He knew all of this, yet he lied about it to the media,” Fabbricatore wrote in a post on X.”
This country is being ruined by these idiot leaders.
The mayor of Aurora, Colorado took his 30 pieces of silver and now he’s panicking because he realizes he will lose his office over this.
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