{"id":89203,"date":"2025-12-10T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89203\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:08:33","slug":"kern-county-young-republicans-combat-misinformation-following-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89203\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Young Republicans combat misinformation following protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Young Republicans claim a group of protesters are spreading misinformation. It comes as that group, which includes former vice chair Chance Boen, accuses the organization of denying membership. <\/p>\n<p>The protest took place outside Casey&#8217;s Steakhouse on F Street ahead of the Young Republican&#8217;s annual elections. Boen, who admits to having radical online behavior, claims he was expelled from the organization due to his criticism of Israel, which some perceive as anti-Semitic. Despite denying these allegations in an interview, Boen&#8217;s social media contains rhetoric that contradicts that statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0b2a6734-51d5-475a-8037-aabfa1115dff-Sequence_VIRGENCHANCEYRINTERVIEW_0001_frame_22917.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness News reached out to the Young Republicans, who issued a statement emphasizing their commitment to free speech while condemning misinformation spread by &#8220;a handful of radical anti-Semites.&#8221; The statement noted that these individuals are not voting members, and many are not registered voters. Protesters, however, assert they are registered Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34e3175c-7207-4597-afdc-352c5261b24c-Sequence_VIRGENCHANCEYRINTERVIEW_0001_frame_23452.jpeg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>The full statement from Kern County Young Republicans can be read below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Young Republicans claim a group of protesters are spreading misinformation. It comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-89203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}