Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo blame Republican leaders on Wednesday after people opposing COVID-19 safety measures scared her children with an armed protest outside her home.
“My 12-year-old son is home by himself right now, and there are protesters banging outside the door,” she told health officials at the time.
Lachiondo suggested in a series of tweets on Wednesday that Republicans had incited the event.
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“And as our federal and state officials have consistently failed to provide the kind of leadership needed in this moment of crisis, those responsibilities have fallen on local leaders, health board members, and public health employees,” she wrote. “As they’ve accepted that responsibility, stepping up to make tough calls in the interest of public health, they have paid a heavy price. The scrutiny, intimidation, harassment, and threats have taken a toll on us all, myself included.”
According to Lachiondo, “armed protestors once again assembled outside my home: yelling, banging, firing air horns, amplifying sound clips from Scarface, accusing me of tyranny and cowering inside.”
Even though she was not inside of her home at the time, Lachiondo said that her two young sons and mother were at the residence.
“There is an ugliness and cruelty in our national rhetoric that is reaching a fevered pitch here at home, and that should worry us all. And, above all, I am terrified about the virus’s current trajectory,” she lamented.
Lachiondo said that she is “calling on Republican leaders who have politicized public health, who have amplified rhetoric, capitalized on it, tacitly endorsed it while holding hands with the most extreme factions in their party: take a hard look at what you’ve become.”
“It’s far past time to do better,” she insisted.
You can read her Twitter thread below:
As they’ve accepted that responsibility, stepping up to make tough calls in the interest of public health, they have paid a heavy price. The scrutiny, intimidation, harassment, and threats have taken a toll on us all, myself included.
— Diana Lachiondo for Ada County (@Lachiondo4Ada) December 9, 2020
I wasn’t actually inside the house: I was calling in from my office at the Ada County Courthouse. But my two young sons and my mother (who was out taking our dog on a short walk) were. And as many of you saw last night, my son called me in tears at the beginning of the meeting.
— Diana Lachiondo for Ada County (@Lachiondo4Ada) December 9, 2020
There is an ugliness and cruelty in our national rhetoric that is reaching a fevered pitch here at home, and that should worry us all. And, above all, I am terrified about the virus’s current trajectory.
— Diana Lachiondo for Ada County (@Lachiondo4Ada) December 9, 2020
I’m calling on Republican leaders who have politicized public health, who have amplified rhetoric, capitalized on it, tacitly endorsed it while holding hands with the most extreme factions in their party: take a hard look at what you’ve become. It’s far past time to do better.
— Diana Lachiondo for Ada County (@Lachiondo4Ada) December 9, 2020
And I’m asking every Idahoan to understand that simple steps slow the spread of this virus – mask wearing and social distancing – aren’t tools of oppression. They are effective (though imperfect) and they are all we have. Use them. (9/9)
— Diana Lachiondo for Ada County (@Lachiondo4Ada) December 9, 2020
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