Robert Bedoya, a Republican Assembly candidate in the 37th district whose petition signatures are the subject of an ongoing battle, said today that he is not a follower of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon and that the presence of QAnon slogan on his business card was a mistake.

“I want to make it clear, I am not in any way shape or form an extremist, a conspiracy theorist, or a follower of Q,” Bedoya said in an email to the New Jersey Globe. “The only thing I am is a proud conservative patriot trying to improve his community.”

Bedoya’s business card included the acronym WWG1WGA – short for Where We Go One We Go All, a slogan used by Trump supporters who claimed that a Satanist cabal was intent on removing the now-former president from office. But in his email, Bedoya said he was not aware of the origins of the slogan.

“I do not espouse [QAnon’s] hateful rhetoric that gets directed to some of the most marginalized members of our society,” he said. “To my own mistake, I was misled to believe that the slogan ‘WWG1WGA’ was a patriotic and military slogan.”

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