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Mon Aug 3, 2020, 05:19 PM Aug 2020

Arlington GOP Chair Kicked Out of Local COVID Facebook Group

Arlington GOP Chair Kicked Out of Local COVID Facebook Group
ARLnow.com Today at 5:00pm

(Updated at 5:10 p.m.) The chairman of the Arlington GOP has been booted from the “Arlington Neighbors Helping Each Other Through COVID-19” Facebook group for threatening to expose those who file complaints about local businesses.

In a post on Sunday, one of the group’s moderators said that Andrew Loposser posted screenshots allegedly showing the names and contact information of people who filed complaints about COVID-related violations in Virginia.

“We have removed and blocked the chairman of the Arlington County Republican Committee, Mr. Andrew Loposser, from Arlington Neighbors Helping Each Other Through COVID-19,” wrote moderator Joshua Farrar.

He continued:

Threatening to dox and protest members of our community who report potential violations of our public health policies, developed and enacted in response to COVID-19, in the interest of public health, is entirely unacceptable. Comparisons of those who support public health restrictions on local business to Nazis are horrid and inappropriate, and diminish the experiences of Holocaust survivors, and are an affront to the memory of the millions of lives upended and extinguished, murdered, by Hitler and his machinery of extermination. We do not know how this individual was able to obtain complaint data and we do not know what other data this individual possesses. As such, we have reported this incident to local authorities.

Loposser appears to have also made a “Nazi” comparison in response to a post about Arlington’s new restrictions on sidewalk gatherings and queues.

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Arlington GOP Chair Kicked Out of Local COVID Facebook Group (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 OP
There's a GOP chair in Arlington? He must be a lonely guy. Nt spooky3 Aug 2020 #1
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