Boebert, a first-term Congresswoman, has gained notoriety for her belligerent approach to basic issues of governing, having even touted plans to carry a gun while on duty in the. Pueblo needs better representation, the article read. From 2013 to 2022, she owned Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where staff members were encouraged to carry firearms openly. [216], In 2015, Boebert was detained at a music festival for shouting at a group of people arrested for underage drinking, yelling that the arrest was unconstitutional because they had not received Miranda warnings. Lauren Boebert's history of careless driving In 2016, she rolled her truck into a ditch and was charged with careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle. She is also among Boeberts most vocal critics in the district. The race was too. [18], Boebert promotes the ideals of Christian nationalism. [14][215] He started Boebert Consulting in 2012, receiving US$460,000 in 2019 and US$478,000 in 2020 as a consultant for Terra Energy, a large producer of natural gas in Colorado. [182], Boebert opposes mitigation policies seeking to reduce COVID-19's spread. Unaffiliated voters those not aligned with a major political party strongly dislike Boebert, who's known for her Christian nationalist rhetoric, opposition to bipartisan legislation, and lighting rod remarks about guns and immigration. [48] Boebert decried what she said was Tipton's insufficient efforts to continue funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, whose money had run out within two weeks, arguing that more was needed. [31] The following day, Garfield County suspended her food license. Since her election last November, in a district that sprawls across a huge swath of the mountains and ranch lands that make up the western half of Colorado, Boebert, 34, has become known as one of Donald Trumps most outspoken acolytes in Congress. Meanwhile, the Colorado Republican Party recently elected as its chair Kristi Burton Brown, who worked on Boeberts campaign as a policy adviser and has questioned the legitimacy of Bidens election. Kimberly Ricci Film/TV Editor Twitter. [66] According to the Atlas of the 2020 Elections, Boebert was able to command strong support in the traditionally conservative areas of the Western Slope of Colorado and the San Luis Valley while retaining enough Republican votes in liberal-leaning Pueblo and other Democratic areas. [40][41] On Twitter, Boebert has used rhetoric friendly to the Three Percenters and posed with members of the group (she deleted the tweet with the photos after being asked about it). [174] In August 2021, after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban, Boebert tweeted, "the Taliban are the only people building back better", reusing Biden's "Build Back Better" campaign slogan. [90][91] Boebert defeated Frisch by a small margin in a closer than expected race. A self-described born-again Christian, Boebert has said that she is "tired of this separation of church and state junk" and argued for greater church power and influence in government decision-making. [118] Boebert's communications director resigned on January 16 in response to her behavior on January 6. Boeberts most formidable challenger so far is Democratic state Sen. Kerry Donovan, who lives in the mountains in Vailconsiderably closer to Boeberts hometown of Rifleand who raised nearly $644,000 in two months after declaring her candidacy in February. [109] Boebert then told Speaker Nancy Pelosi that her constituents were outside the Capitol and that she had promised to represent their voices in the chamber. [39], Boebert was an organizer of the December 2019 "We Will Not Comply!" But it's not clear. [98] She was sued for blocking a constituent, Bri Buentello. However, her campaign succeeded in appealing to independence and rebellion, thus getting the necessary votes. "[198], Boebert opposes the Equality Act, saying it promotes "supremacy of gays" and says transgender women take scholarships and sports opportunities away from cisgender women. Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 4, 2022 One of the bills, the Access to Baby Formula Act, makes it easier for low-income families to continue buying formula with vouchers; the other allows the government to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed up production. Lauren Boebert is a freshman Republican House member who won a dark horse victory in 2020. The 2022 United States Senate election in Colorado was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Colorado.Incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet won reelection to a third full term, defeating Republican businessman Joe O'Dea. A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that after trailing for the last three months, former President Donald Trump has suddenly surged to a substantial lead over Florida Gov. So far, Boebert has one announced Republican challenger, Marina Zimmerman, a crane operator who bills herself as a genuine blue-collar candidate.. [25] Shooters Grill, according to her congressional disclosure forms, lost $143,000 in 2019 and $226,000 in 2020. First-term Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's lead over Democratic challenger Adam Frisch has widened in her surprisingly tight Colorado House race. A lot of dreams seem to die and not see follow-through.. I thought Lauren would be a great representative for small-business owners because she owns a small business, and she came from a humble lifestyle, said Gus Garcia, a political independent who also voted for Biden. The foundation is slipping, said Perko, who, along with scores of his colleagues, has been back at work since April, after being furloughed for 11 months. Originally appointed to the seat in 2009, Bennet won a full term in 2010 and a second full term in 2016. [4][5][6][7] She opposes transitioning to green energy, COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates, abortion, sex education, gender affirmation surgery for minors, and non-heterosexual marriage. ", "Regional: Shooters in Rifle serves a big helping of Second Amendment", "Lauren Boebert discusses, defends her past during Durango visit", "Boebert's Democratic upbringing questioned", "Did Rep. Boebert Get Her GED Months Before Winning Election? PUEBLO, Colo.Charles Perko gestured past a vine-covered chain link fence toward a hulking steel facility with massive mills and squat brick office buildings. [11][13], Boebert has said that she was raised in a Democratic household in a liberal area. Both Boebert and Coram agreed that Colorado's forests need to be managed better to prevent wildfires and that it should start locally. Gradisar and state House Majority Leader Daneya Esgar, who represents Pueblo, were disappointed when Boebert signed on to a letter opposing the reintroduction of earmarks, which allow members to append projects in their districts to funding bills. [163] She opposes the Green New Deal, claiming it would cost $93 trillion to implement and would bankrupt the country. The effort was unsuccessful; the neophyte Boebert beat Mitsch Bush by 6 points. The race could be headed for an automatic recount if neither candidate fails to win by a margin of. The description of the Bill on the Congressional website currently does not have much more (or Moore) clarification beyond its stated title: "To declare an AR-15 style rifle chambered in a .223 . Unfortunately, Ilhan can't say the same thing. The top five spots in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll remained the same. They're slated to be at CPAC", "First on CNN: Watchdog group requests investigation into 13 GOP lawmakers for misusing proxy voting", "Boebert introduces measure to classify fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction", "Lauren Boebert pushes to classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction", "Boebert's stance on Equality Act raises concern among LGBTQ in her district", "Lauren Boebert criticised for calling Equality Act 'supremacy of gays', "Lauren Boebert compares trans healthcare to grafting "aborted babies to lab rats", "What's in the so-called Don't Say Gay bill that could impact the whole country", "Lauren Boebert is part of a dangerous religious movement that threatens democracy, experts say", "Rep. Lauren Boebert said humanity is in its 'last days' and Christians should 'rise up,' invoking Christian nationalist imagery that's linked to violence", "The Christian Right is winning cultural battles while public opinion disagrees", "Boebert, court decisions ignite debate over church and state", "PolitiFact - Lauren Boebert wrong on Founding Fathers' intent, experts say", "GOP Rep. Boebert: 'I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk', "Silt couple discovers that childbirth can be one wild ride", "Lauren Boebert's husband did jail time for "lewd exposure" in a bowling alley. [179], During her primary campaign, Boebert argued for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare,[180] and advocated against the introduction of a single-payer healthcare system, saying it would harm small businesses like hers because of the prohibitive cost. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) slammed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday for being "absent on the job," following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. When she had the opportunity to support stimulus funding, she chose Trump over us. During her primary campaign, she voiced opposition to Colorado's recently enacted red flag law. 47% of likely voters say they'll vote for Boebert and 45% for Frisch. [74] Boebert's communications director said that these were indeed personal expenses, "billed to the campaign account in error", and that the "reimbursement has already happened". Rep. Lauren Boebert's Shooters Grill will be replaced by a Mexican restaurant Tapatios recently applied for a liquor license at 120 E. 3rd St. in Rifle A Mexican restaurant is taking over a high-profile location in the town of Rifle, Colorado, where U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert's Shooters Grill previously resided. Perko didnt vote for her. [12] Boebert herself registered to vote in 2006, at age 19, as a Democrat; in 2008, she changed her affiliation to Republican. But theres no question the metropolitan area is struggling, saddled with the states highest unemployment rate and some of its highest violent crime and opioid addiction rates. [62], Boebert reimbursed herself $22,259 for mileage costs in 2020 from her campaign's finances, which legally would require her to have driven 38,712mi (62,301km). Boebert, who owns a gun-themed restaurant called Shooters Grill in Rifle, upset five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary last year and won the general election with scant experience, money and national support. She also repeated claims of massive election fraud and invoked her opposition to the restrictions introduced as a result of the spread of what she called the "Fauci-funded China virus" (SARS-CoV-2). [65] Mitsch Bush outraised Boebert, with $4.2 million for her and nearly $4 million spent by Democratic operatives, as opposed to Boebert's $2.4 million raised and more than $5 million spent by the Republicans, but Boebert won the election, 51.27% to 45.41%. "[141], Boebert has embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory. [181] After the election, she said she was undecided about whether it was best to keep or repeal Obamacare, but wished that a more market-based system would be adopted. The race was decided by 546 votes . "[179][209] Boebert's office asserted she was not expressing support of Christian theocracy. Top right: A traveling vaccine clinic is parked outside a church in the Dog Patch neighborhood of Pueblo, which is heavily Hispanic. Colorado representative Lauren Boebert was adored by the Republican base - but has had to fight for her political life. [63][64], In late July, Boebert was considered the front-runner. While Boeberts district overall is purpleabout 32 percent Republican, 26 percent Democratic and 40 percent unaffiliated, among registered votersthe Pueblo County electorate flips this dynamic, with about 36 percent of voters registered as Democrats, 25 percent as Republicans and 37 percent unaffiliated. Boebert failed to appear in. The rest of the AP Top 25 was a big jumble. Boebert, a first-term firebrand, saw her GOP-leaning 3rd Congressional District in western Colorado become even more Republican after redistricting. [130], Boebert has urged for even closer relations between Israel and the United States, saying that their foundings were divinely inspired and that they are the "two nations [in the world] that have been created to glorify God". The Donald Trump acolyte had been predicted to easily secure a second term in Congress against Democratic challenger Adam Frisch, although polling had tightened in recent weeks. Top right: Originally built in 1941 as an Army Air Base, the airport currently services two to three commercial flights per day. Collectively, Democratic candidates raised $832,842 in the first quarter of the yearshy of Boeberts $846,000. David Zalubowski/AP Photo. [36] She has named eliminating critical race theory from schools as one of her top legislative priorities, even though it is not taught in schools. Meanwhile in Colorado Rep Lauren Boebert is set to be the latest far-right Trump acolyte to face her own primary challenge; she's facing a challenge from Don Coram of the Colorado General. [134][18] On January 1, 2021, in a letter co-signed by more than 80 Republicans, Boebert asked Speaker Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to uphold the 1967 law exempting members of Congress from a Capitol Hill ban on firearms, which allowed them to keep arms in their offices. "A new poll" = I talked to the voices in my head. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) drew outrage with her threatening response to Twitter's ban of fellow far-right extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 's . Still, big-money donors here often give to candidates from opposing parties, independents regularly vote Republican, and blue-dog Democrats skew conservative. [121], In June 2021, Boebert was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. | [110] During a town hall in March, Boebert appeared to defend the January 6 attackers on the Capitol, saying, "We already see in Washington, D.C. You can't petition your government. 1 for the second straight week in the poll . Critics reminded Boebert how . [12][14] Records at the Colorado secretary of state's office show that her mother was registered to vote in Colorado as a Republican from 2001 to 2013 and as a Democrat from 2015 to 2020. Voters who oppose Boebert have one other option, Republican state Sen. Don Coram, in the June 28 primary. Top right: Yanera McCulley is a third-generation mortician. [163] She has introduced a forest management bill, the Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act, which would attempt to prevent wildfires through several mitigation measures, such as removing trees killed by bark beetles, making it harder for groups to go to court to stop forest thinning, and requiring the United States Forest Service to harvest sixbillion board foot (14million cubic meters) of lumber annually. [187][188] She has also compared the virus to communism. [161] During her tenure in Congress, she was one of two representatives (the other was Marjorie Taylor Greene) to vote against the TRANSPLANT Act, which reauthorized the National Marrow Donor Program through 2026, citing concern over the addition of the program to the national debt as it had not received a Congressional Budget Office evaluation. The Keating Research poll, conducted from . Ours is one of only three mills in the country that makes rail, Perko said on a breezy afternoon in April, as he turned to face the manufacturing complex, now owned by the multinational company Evraz Group. [80][81] Boebert's attorney said in June that she would file a defamation lawsuit against the group, but she has not done so. The rest goes to climate change, increasing government bureaucracy, and unrelated liberal wish-list items.. 1095, which seeks to establish the United States' national gun. | Top: A train passes under Union Bridge in Pueblo. Those who are living in the White House are not living in reality. She reported $1.9 million on hand as of Sept. 30. Other voters here decried a fundraising appeal of Boeberts exclaiming that Pelosi and Biden want to take our guns, which was emailed to supporters hours after a shooting at a Boulder grocery store left 10 people dead. Boeberts Democratic opponent in the 2020 race won the county by just 204 votes. . [11][12] She dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby. [112][113][114], Democratic politicians in Colorado accused Boebert and her colleague Doug Lamborn of "helping incite violence" during the storming of the Capitol. Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling has been surveying the race for the Chicago Sun-Times . [73] As of 2021, Colorado classified Boebert Consulting as a delinquent company due to the lack of filings or registered agent with the state. + [108] The next day, in the hours before the Capitol was attacked, she described the day's events as Republicans' "1776 moment", a reference to the American Revolutionary War. In a press release announcing the measure, she derided Bidens plan, saying only 6% of his $2.3 trillion so-called infrastructure plan goes to roads and bridges. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP The controversial House member from Colorado is facing a challenger. [206][207][208] In June 2022, she told a church audience, "The church is supposed to direct the government. [89], In a debate with Democratic nominee Adam Frisch on September 11, 2022, Boebert took credit for bills she had voted against, did not cross-examine Frisch, proposed more oil and gas development to respond to climate change, and kept attacking House speaker Nancy Pelosi. There is a lot of passion around seeing her removed., The sense of discontent in a region with a friendly, small-town feel, where residents congregate at chile festivals, Colorado State University Pueblo athletic events and the state fair held nearby, has led to hope that shes a fluke candidate vulnerable in the next election. [146] Also that month, Boebert called Omar "a full-time propagandist for Hamas" and an "honorary member of Hamas". In an unexpectedly tight race where the freshman lawmaker, an ally of . 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