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<span style="color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eric Hananoki </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4Sp0wGD6PjuzYSXA3JIDP0yrDMjUPv5KtxHdYiQX3RTFRwau0jMjdX5uvuVXVJy4vpp7zN7obNSl6sLfmD45-rSdzn1QCJI4jF76sPawiJ7BQ1perCLNsB4vWIXdDO2YPQdGASFVNqaziGpCSLB5gyg6MzJ_oR0JQUS4X-dSrn8-A&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916weekly&n=33&v=1437" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">reports that</a><span style="color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dale Mensing, a congressional candidate who’s backed by the California Republican Party, wrote that the chemtrails conspiracy theory "is one of the three primary issues” of his campaign and used a video from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as evidence.</span><div><span style="color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">===</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dale Mensing, a congressional candidate who’s backed by the California Republican Party, wrote that the chemtrails conspiracy theory "is one of the three primary issues” of his campaign and used a video from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as evidence.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mensing is challenging incumbent Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman in the general election for California’s 2nd District for the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California%27s_2nd_Congressional_District" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">third time</a>. Mensing has the <a href="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/cagop/pages/1929/attachments/original/1534973731/Endorsements_for_Website_August_2018.pdf?1534973731" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">endorsement</a> of the <a href="https://www.cagop.org/endorsements1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">California Republican Party</a>; additionally, he <a href="https://www.theflamingarrow.com/november-6th--2018-endorsements--1.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">states</a> on his website that he has endorsements from “the Del Norte County Republican Central Committee, the Marin County Republican Central committee, the Sonoma County Republican Central Committee and the Mendocino County Republican Central Committee.” (<a href="https://www.delnorterepublicans.org/election" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Those</a> <a href="http://www.maringop.org/candidates.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">county</a> <a href="https://www.sonomacountygop.org/election-2018/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">campaign</a> <a href="http://www.mendocountygop.net/saturday-sept-8-2018-candidates-tour-coming-to-willits/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">committees</a> mention and/or link to Mensing’s website on their respective websites.)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republican committees in California have backed Mensing even though he's <a href="https://www.theflamingarrow.com/chemtrails.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">stated</a> that one of the “primary issues” of his campaign is chemtrails, referring to a conspiracy theory that’s been pushed by media personalities including <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/21/alex-jones-explains-how-government-weather-weap/194167" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Alex Jones</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some references to chemtrails on Mensing’s website have been removed this week for unclear reasons. His main page previously <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180823073934/https://www.theflamingarrow.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">featured</a> “chemtrails” on his <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2018/09/11/chemtrailsindex.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">main page</a>; that mention has since been <a href="https://www.theflamingarrow.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">removed</a> (though his “chemtrails” <a href="https://www.theflamingarrow.com/chemtrails.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">subpage</a> is still available). He also had a <a href="http://archive.fo/di6Fq" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">page</a> about the California primary titled “June 5, 2018 Endorsements and Primary Campaign Points,” which stated that a “primary” point of his campaign was to “expose and eliminate chemtrails”; that page was up until <a href="http://archive.fo/di6Fq" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">recently</a> but is now no <a href="https://www.theflamingarrow.com/june-5--2018-endorsements-and-primary-campaign-points.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">longer available</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mensing’s attention to the issue has been briefly noted outside of his website; for example, a May 8 <a href="https://www.marinij.com/2018/05/08/north-bay-incumbents-seek-to-hold-off-challengers-in-primary/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">article</a>about the GOP primary in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Marin Independent Journal</em> mentioned that Mensing “has a host of issues,” including “eliminating airplane chemtrails.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The New York Times</em> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/science/scientists-just-say-no-to-chemtrails-conspiracy-theory.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">wrote</a> in 2016 of chemtrails: “One persistent belief in some quarters is that the government -- or business, perhaps -- is deploying a fleet of jet aircraft to spray chemicals into the sky to control the population, food supply or other things. As evidence, they point to what they call ‘chemtrails,’ which are more commonly known as contrails, or condensation trails, produced at high altitudes as water vapor in jet engine exhaust condenses and freezes.” Scientists have <a href="https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/chemtrails-conspiracy-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">repeatedly</a> <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/084011" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">stated</a> that there’s no evidence to support the chemtrails conspiracy theory.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mensing has a <a href="https://www.theflamingarrow.com/chemtrails.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">page</a> dedicated to chemtrails that states of the issue: “I have many questions and I know a few things. I know enough [to] tell the reader that dealing with chemtrails is one of the three primary issues of my campaign for the house of representatives. As I post these paragraphs, I plan to add more in the days and weeks to come.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He also directed readers and potential voters to several videos related to chemtrails, including an August 2014 video on Alex Jones' YouTube channel. That <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160706140020/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ZW3Io7IxI" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">video</a> -- which is no longer available in its original location because YouTube has <a href="https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/youtube-alex-jones-ban-1202896074/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">banned</a> Jones’ channel, though an unofficial Infowars fan account has reposted it -- was titled “Government Weather Manipulation Exposed” and featured Jones pushing the chemtrails conspiracy theory (the video has been reposted to YouTube by an unofficial Infowars fan account).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the Mensing-backed video, Jones <a href="https://youtu.be/XTWv-anmLlE?t=7m57s" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a> that “the globalists” are “playing God” and “they’re doing it with jet trails, with the chemicals, they’re doing it with these different microwave systems and relay towers that then resonate with it. They’ve got over-the-horizon radar, [that] is one reason they’re spraying this stuff. The point is, we need to know.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mensing did not respond to a request for comment by posting time.</p></div>