This does my heart good. If there is one person in congress that I would like to see go down in flames, it is Lauren Boebert. She has made many enemies in Colorado and as I have said before, as a native of Colorado, I think she’s a freak and I don’t think she’s going to be reelected. Georgia might be a freak show, we are talking about the south, so probably Marge Greene will prevail, but I can’t see Boebert getting reelected after the public display she’s made the past two years.
Here is the latest from The Steamboat Pilot:
When Republican Lauren Boebert was first elected to Congress in 2020, unaffiliated voters carried her to victory — and she’ll need their support again this year to win a second term.
That’s because 44% of active registered voters in Boebert’s GOP-leaning 3rd Congressional District, which stretches across the Western Slope into Pueblo and southern Colorado, are unaffiliated, while 31% are Republicans and 24% are Democrats.
In the spring of 2021, The Colorado Sun partnered with news organizations across the 3rd District to interview randomly selected unaffiliated voters represented by Boebert to get a sense of their thoughts on the congresswoman’s performance during her first months in office. As Boebert vies for reelection this year against Democrat Adam Frisch, a former Aspen city councilman, we called back those same voters to hear what they think of the congresswoman now after two years in Washington, D.C., and all the controversies she’s been at the center of.
Here’s what we heard:
Marilyn Morris, 70, Pueblo
Morris voted for Boebert in 2020. This year, she voted for Frisch — mostly, she said, because he was the only other option.
“I don’t like the way she behaves in Congress,” Morris said. “That is not respectful, and I wouldn’t vote for her for that reason alone.”
We didn’t talk to Morris as part of our 2021 story about Boebert and unaffiliated voters. We contacted her for this article — chosen, again, from a list of voters randomly selected from the voter file — because we wanted to get a voice from Pueblo, one of two population centers in the 3rd District.
Morris said she voted for about half Republicans and half Democrats on her ballot this year.
In 2020, Morris said Boebert seemed like the lesser of two evils. But she doesn’t like how Boebert has spent her two years in Washington.
“She’s lying all the time,” Morris said, “so I just don’t trust her.”
Now that’s encouraging. On the other side of the scale is this guy and if there’s enough of him in the electorate, democracy will be lost.
Joshua Burt, 44, Rangely
In 2021, Burt, a former oil rig driller, told The Sun Boebert was sometimes “a little too extreme” but he felt she was a good person and that he voted for her in 2020. He said he doesn’t see her as being too extreme anymore.
“I think the whole Republican Party is not extreme enough,” he said. “It’s time to say ‘no, enough is enough.’ You can’t indoctrinate our children, you can’t push pornography into our schools.”
Burt also said he likes Boebert’s support for the oil and gas industry and her position on immigration.
“She’s done amazing, I love her stand on our gun rights,” he said. “And I love the fact that she keeps calling out these (expletive) morons for what they are.”
Burt said he’s still an unaffiliated voter, but other than voting for Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in 2016, he tends to support Republicans.
“I hope Colorado comes back to the purple where it’s supposed to be,” he said.
A sampling from each group. (Read the entire article, there’s a lot more.) Independents can swing either way. I guess it comes down to the kind of culture that Colorado is right now. I can see Boebert getting in in the 2020 election because she was riding the Trump freak show coattails. But her behavior on January 6 soured her situation immediately and then things went downhill from there.
It’s a very different world now. And she was not a solid candidate to begin with. She was part of the circus and she has done nothing in Washington.
Nevertheless, perception is everything. You’ve read the different perceptions of two Independents. We’ll see what happens. Five Thirty Eight has her as a shoo in. Five Thirty Eight is an aggregated poll.
In an editorial that got read nationally the Denver Post endorsed Adam Frisch in a heartfelt plea to voters. Here are excerpts:
We beg voters in western and southern Colorado not to give Rep. Lauren Boebert their vote.
Boebert has not represented the 3rd Congressional District well. Almost exclusively, she has spent her time and efforts contributing to the toxic political environment in this nation.
The good people in this district are not angry and abrasive; they are not hateful and caustic; they do not boast of their own prowess or sling insults as entertainment. The ranchers we know working the Uncompaghre Plateau, the teachers in Durango, the steel mill workers in Pueblo, and the farmers setting down roots in the San Luis Valley keep to themselves, watch their families grow, and pray for better days.
Boebert’s unproductive approach, combined with the efforts of others, has helped erode Congress’ ability to honestly debate public policy that could help people in her district.
Adam Frisch would be a better representative for the people of the 3rd Congressional District. […]
Boebert slings mud.
Her performance at the Club 20 debate against Frisch was odd, to say the least, and she spent a good chunk of her speaking time talking about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and criticizing the moderator.
In her primary, Boebert called a man born and raised in Montrose County a groomer – a term for a person who sexually abuses children. The remark, directed at Don Coram, a conservative Republican and rancher whose son happens to be gay, is just one example of Boebert’s casual yet crass cruelty, which she puts on display on a daily basis while in Washington, D.C.
Casual, crass, and cruel. That is Boebert.
Boebert lucked into a position way out of her depth educationally and intellectually. And still, I wouldn’t begrudge it to her at all if she was humble and devoted herself to learning and being a viable member of congress. Instead, all she has done is rubber stamp Trumpian views and post Trump she has gone uber MAGA. She brings nothing to the table but conflict. She is the female Madison Cawthorn and we can only hope and pray that she’ll go the way he did.
BONUS: If you’re wondering about the misspelling in the photo, it’s not photoshopped. Here’s the ad she’s got out. This woman is paid $174K a year for this.
Spell check! pic.twitter.com/tQNscJzLVI
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 6, 2022
Lauren Boebert does not belong in Congress, period.
I hope she goes down in flames. Colorado is a nice place, it deserves soooooooo much better than her.
what will she do if she gets voted out? gun sales? Pole dancing? definitely nothing requiring an education or intelligence. She is an empty sack.
Sounds like she was tailor-made for Fox “News” where neither education nor intelligence is required for a “news” presenter. And if she gets an “opinion” show of her own, well, Carlson and Hannity and Ingraham show that neither education nor intelligence is any concern for how they conduct their shows.
As we should’ve learned from Pol Pot (who, ironically, was fairly well-educated as a young man), education and intelligence can be dangerous things when you’re expected to spew propaganda (that usually flies in the face of true common sense).
Why not both?
My mother never shuts up about how Boebert is hated here. We’ll see how hated soon enough.
Are you in Colorado now? I vaguely remember you and I discussing a move of yours to Colorado. I don’t remember the city but I believe we discussed it.
I can’t see how Boebert wouldn’t be hated there. Again, I spent the first 26 years of my life there. There were rednecks, of course, but people who were mouthy and vulgar and openly stupid were not liked. She is all of those things.
Yes, I’ve been in Colorado since July. My health crisis with the gallbladder was the final straw. And I’m in Parker, just outside Denver.
General unpleasantness aside, the other big factor with Boebert is how she’s been redistricted. So she’s facing a different pool of voters now then before.
How in the fuck did she get elected in the first place? Her stupidity did not get created out of nothing, it was always there.
Lots of conservatives who will vote for anyone with an R after their name. Like Burt, in the article.
“Casual, crass, and cruel. That is Boebert.”
Don’t forget stupid.
I saw a speech she gave that began, “I want to start with TWO words. Let’s go Brandon.”
C’mon Bobo. You don’t even need to take off your shoes to count that high.
Hehehehe, I like that!