D.A. Selling T-Shirts to Fight ACLU

Weld County District attorney says he was lying in bed one night and then about 4 o’clock in the morning it came to him.

" I wanted to send a very clear message that we're not going to be intimidated.That there are a lot of people here that are going to support us,"

The DA has designed and produced 160 t-shirts to help raise money to defend the lawsuit filed by the ACLU in Operation Number Games. The ACLU is claiming that Sheriff Cooke and Buck violated privacy laws by using tax records to arrest people they believed were stealing and making up Social Security numbers for tax benefits.

"I think the message is pretty clear this case is about victims of identity theft and not about illegal immigration,"

The front of the shirt says “The ACLU Sued My District Attorney & Sheriff” and on the back “Weld County Standing Up For Americans” Buck says he chose those words carefully.

" We feel very strongly about limited government in northern Colorado and so we chose our words carefully on there and tried to convey the message that its all about the victims of crime,"

Dustin Mundell of Kersey says he supports what the DA is doing and came down to get his shirts.

" I just think it's ridiculous that an organization like the ACLU would go after something like that when there was illegal immigrants involved,"

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