The storming of the Capitol last month has motivated a Lafayette businessman to form a political action committee called Blackthorn to bring awareness to what he feels are Congressman Clay Higgins’ extreme right views and calls for his resignation. Ken Miller said his PAC will post anti-Higgins ads in hopes of changing the mindset in the Third Congressional District.
“Will spark some changing of the heart here in Louisiana. Away from this seditious and oath keeper type of relationship that Clay has had with the real extreme right,” said Miller.
The ads feature soundbites from Higgins’ fire-lit rant that went viral in which the congressman claimed to have inside data to support Trump won the November 2020 election. Miller says Higgin’s behavior is unacceptable.
“And you know he’s been stoking this up in all these videos that he’s run on Parler and on YouTube about arming people on the streets and taking action. I think that’s unacceptable behavior from an elected leader,” said Miller.
The Blackthorn ad refers to Higgins as a domestic terrorist and said he has blood on his hands after the January 6th riot which claimed the life of a capitol police officer and seriously injured other officers. Miller said Higgins’s must answer for his seditionist rhetoric.
“I just can’t allow January 6th to go without some recourse,” said Miller.
Higgins issued a response to the ads saying quote “I’m not concerned with the targeted lies and false attacks coming from left-wing organizations. I’m a Constitutionalist. I work for the We, the People. I’ll continue to do so. Socialist lies mean zero to me.”
You can view the ad at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYJd-loxK0Y
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