This warms the cockles of my heart. Adam Frisch, who is opposing Lauren Boebert in a rematch for the congressional seat in CO-03, raised an eyepopping $3.4 million last quarter. Boebert raised approximately one third of that. That’s news enough, but what’s really intriguing is who contributed to Adam Frisch’s campaign. It wasn’t just the yous and mes hitting the blue hotlink that I post on every Boebert piece, it was some people with a lot of money in the bank, to wit, Barbra Streisand, Gale Anne Hurd, Ryan Reynolds and others.
Boebert won by a sliver last time, 546 votes, to be precise. This time she’s going to go down in flames. At least, such is my hope. Now Adam Frisch says, he divides the race into B.B. which is Before Beetlejuice and A.B., which is After Beetlejuice. The Guardian:
“In February of 22, when I first launched, there were two themes I started to work on. The Republicans laughed at me, the Democrats laughed at me, the media and the donor class laughed. But the themes are the people want the circus to stop, and they want someone to focus on the district.
“And every day since then, [Boebert] has just been one of the national leaders of the circus. And obviously, it’s just gotten worse and worse … it’s just a mess and people are sick and tired.”
Boebert is not the only member of Congress Frisch identifies as a purveyor of what the Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips – a high-school friend of Frisch – calls “angertainment”: lucrative playing of the partisan angles in Congress, on social media and on network TV.
“When I looked at the data a couple of years ago,” Frisch says, “I saw that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs are all kind of a part of that Republican chaos crowd, and I would put [Ilhan] Omar and [Rashida] Tlaib [leftwing Democrats from Minnesota and Michigan] on the other side.
“They all have safe seats. A billion dollars against them is not going to change the outcome. But I noticed that in 2020, Boebert only won by five points … and so we realised that of all these ‘brand name’ representatives, Lauren Boebert is probably the only person that has any chance and a good chance now of losing.
“I thought, ‘This could turn into a big deal.’ And obviously, it’s turned into a big deal.”
Frisch has attracted national attention. But the same pre-Beetlejuice poll that put him up 50-48 also said 40% of district voters felt they did not “know” him.
Therefore, while Boebert plays to the cameras in Washington – Frisch hits her for having a “mini television studio in her office, where there are supposed to be benches for constituents to sit before they actually have a chance to talk to the congresswoman” – her opponent continues to tour the battleground.
I’m not surprised she’s got a mini studio in her office. That speaks to this new generation of PR Reps in Congress. They think it’s all about sound bites and social media. Boebert has does zero to govern and she’s wildly out of her league. She can’t even read a bill, let alone research it, let alone know how to draft one herself. She’s there to rubber stamp the MAGA play and look good on TV. That’s it. Frisch is right, CO-03 deserves more.
Colorado district three tilts conservative but Frisch sees a “very libertarian” conservatism which he, an aspirant “Blue Dog” or “Problem Solvers” moderate in Congress, can work with.
“It’s more of a ‘you be you’ party. They don’t want to really get involved with who you want to love, who you want to marry. They don’t want to get involved in who should be in a hospital room talking about reproductive rights, abortion. You know, ranchers and farmers are incredibly pragmatic. I’ve yet to meet a rancher or a farmer that’s un-pragmatic, because they won’t be in business for longer than eight days if they are.”
Boebert has been called many things but pragmatic is rarely one. Frisch attributes her previous wins to opportunism and a libertarianism increasingly not enough for voters turned off by her antics. He also hopes his second attempt to eject Boebert from Congress will capture national attention not just for the drama it might provide.
“I want to spend a lot more time trying to figure out how a lot more districts can have competitive races,” Frisch says, “because monopolies are bad in business and they’re bad in politics. I think 85% or 80% of the districts, they’re basically cooked in the primary. And to me, our primary system is ground zero for the dysfunctionality, the yelling and the screaming that’s going on around our country.”
I don’t think Bobo is going to pick up a lot of big GOP donor money this year. I think the people who can write the kind of checks she needs are not stupid enough to be conned again. But we’ll see. The closer it gets to the election, a lot of changes are possible. But it’s a reliable rule of thumb that if a race looks hopeless, the big money will pull out and put their cash where it can do the most good.
Let’s join the movie stars and help Adam Frisch get elected. Adam for Colorado
Let’s hope Mr. Frisch makes a lot of hay off of Bobo’s theater porn act. I would say I cannot believe ‘pube donors would be eager to help this twat, family values an all that, but then I remember the hypocrisy that runs rampant through the entire party.
Yeah! Suck on that reality, Bobo.
I wouldn’t worry about Bobo. There’s plenty of biker bars in the land of snow blowing. I’m sure her true love is out there in a trailer somewhere cooking meth. She’ll always land on her…er…feet?