Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has accused her Republican opponent for the 3rd Congressional District of Washington State, Joe Kent, of being an extremist, even while there is evidence that she herself supported far-left extremists.

Gluesenkamp Perezs auto body shop offered free help to Antifa rioters during the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, according to an Instagram post on July 26, 2020.

The post, on the Instagram account of Deans Car Care, @deanscarcarepdx, showed a picture of her husband Dean getting a hair cut, with the caption:

If you and your leaf blower have been getting busy supporting human rights, wed like to do what we can to help keep that little machine working right (pro bono) shoot us an email and check your fluids.

According to numerous media accounts, members of Antifa used leaf blowers to try to clear tear gas used by law enforcement to control the crowds of rioters.

According to The Washington Post, a group of self-identified Portland dads known collectively as DadBloc and Leaf-Blower Dads turned up to the protests wearing orange shirts to compliment the Wall of Moms who formed human shields at the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse.

An account associating itself with the dads has identified itself as Antifa and has sent messages of support to other members of Antifa in other cities.

Meanwhile, Gluesenkamp Perez has tried to paint Kent as an extremist, calling him a radical right-wing extremist in numerous social media posts. She has not mentioned her support for Antifa or Black Lives Matter on her Twitter account.

A spokesman for Gluesenkamp Perez told Breitbart News in a statement that it was an employee at her shop who made the Instagram post:

This is a disingenuous and ridiculously misleading attack. Any claim Marie or her husband have ever supported Antifa is a lie. In 2020, as tear gas and pepper spray were causing harm to Portland residents, an employee at Maries shop once wrote an Instagram post offering to repair broken leaf blowers. Thats it.

Nothing Marie or her husband said or did was in any way anti-law enforcement. Lets be absolutely clear on this: Maries small business has suffered multiple break ins so she knows first hand the important work that police do to protect public safety and address crime. Marie supports fully-funding our police and opposes political violence in all its forms unlike her extremist opponent Joe Kent, who claims were at war with federal law enforcement officers and wants to defund the FBI along with other federal law enforcement.

Kents campaign responded to his opponent calling him extremist again.

The ad from Maries repair shop offering free repairs to those getting busy for human rights is an undeniable offer of material support for Antifa during the height of their riots and attacks on the police, a campaign spokesman said.

Marie pretends to support the police because shes running for Congress in a red district, but when it mattered, she turned her garage in Portland into an arsenal for Antifa, he said.

Local law enforcement has been unanimous in their public endorsements of Joe Kent, and the people of the Washingtons 3rd District know that Antifa belongs in prison, not in Congress.

Follow Breitbart Newss Kristina Wong on Twitter, Truth Social, or on Facebook.

See the original post here:

WA Dem Perez Calls Kent 'Extremist' But Has Supported Antifa Rioters