Friday, Apr 29, 2022 7:25 PM Lauren Boebert and Don Coram Political donors in Southwest Colorado gave more to state Sen. Don Coram than Rep. Lauren Boebert during the first quarter of 2022,. 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. But the door to her local office is often locked, and her staff doesnt return his calls. [146] Also that month, Boebert called Omar "a full-time propagandist for Hamas" and an "honorary member of Hamas". The race could be headed for an automatic recount if neither candidate fails to win by a margin of. Bombastic Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert may be in for a closer race than expected in November, according to new data from a Democratic polling firm. Frisch is a businessman and. [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 poll surveyed 500 likely voters in the district and showed 47% backing Boebert and 45% saying they would vote for former Aspen City Council member . A tweet from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) criticizing the Biden White House got flipped back on her late Tuesday. [26], Boebert says her first job at a McDonald's restaurant changed her views about whether government assistance is necessary. [49] Boebert raised just over $150,000 through the June 30 primary. 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. Swing voters in Pueblo, Colorados Steel City, say they are getting frustrated with a U.S. representative they see as more focused on her own celebrity than her constituents. At least one person at Sandovals listening session who voted for Boebert said he had been disappointed by her, and plans to help Sandovals campaign. Bri Buentello is an educator and former Democratic state legislator who lost her seat, which includes parts of Pueblo County, last November. From 2013 to 2022, she owned Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where staff members were encouraged to carry firearms openly. Colorado representative Lauren Boebert was adored by the Republican base - but has had to fight for her political life. When I think of Lauren Boebert, I think of that expression all hat and no cattle, Sandoval said. But D.C. bureaucrats have used this agency to infringe on the rights of the American people. [45], Boebert criticized Tipton's voting record, which she said did not reflect his district. As of Monday evening, Ms Boebert is leading by 1,122 votes, with 99 per cent of votes reported. She had little trouble with moderate state. Washington CNN Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert remained in a tight race Friday morning against Democrat Adam Frisch after redistricting made her bid for reelection to her Colorado seat more. Pueblo needs better representation, the article read. She has called the vaccine mandates unconstitutional[77] and in particular opposed them for the military. 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", "Mounting antiscience aggression in the United States", "Lauren Boebert beat a Colorado congressman. Its a promising sign, but Perko doesnt have much confidence that the steelworkers will get more help from their representative in Congress. In October 2020, Boebert's campaign denied any connection to the Proud Boys and said Boebert did not share Bishop's views. [17], In 2013, Boebert and her husband opened Shooters Grill in Rifle, west of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. . Boebert shakes up Colorado district", "5-term Rep. 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[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%. Thousands of Democrats in Western Colorado are voting in the primary on Tuesday against Representative Lauren Boebert, part of a broader effort to defeat far-right Republicans. Bottom left: The old steel mill in Pueblo. Top right: Originally built in 1941 as an Army Air Base, the airport currently services two to three commercial flights per day. She pleaded guilty to the unsafe vehicle charge, and the careless driving and failure to appear charges were dismissed. 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[25] Shooters Grill, according to her congressional disclosure forms, lost $143,000 in 2019 and $226,000 in 2020. Following a recent string of deadly mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., Adam Frisch, a Democratic primary candidate in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, is drawing a sharp contrast on gun control in his campaign to unseat Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) this November. Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert faces state Sen. Don Coram in the GOP primary for the 3rd . Bottom: Pueblo County lifted Covid capacity restrictions for all businesses on May 17. [147] At a November 20 event, she repeated the elevator story, this time including a Capitol Police officer with "fret all over his face". [55][56], On June 30, Boebert won the Republican nomination with 54.6% of the vote to Tipton's 45.4%. This mill means everything to this community., While Boeberts district overall is purple, the Pueblo County electorate flips this dynamic, billboards that featured Boeberts mugshot, which was a major theme of her 2020 campaign, Boebert signed on to a letter opposing the reintroduction of earmarks, she introduced an infrastructure bill of her own, bipartisan letter circulated by the American Iron and Steel Institute. [38][37] The ordinance passed unanimously a month later. [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. October 6, 2022. Her spokesman later said that she had not been carrying a gun during the walk. [15][16] After marrying in 2007, she got a job filing for a natural gas drilling company and then became a pipeliner, a member of a team that builds and maintains pipelines and pumping stations. In a statement, a spokesperson for. Lauren Boebert is a freshman Republican House member who won a dark horse victory in 2020. "[158][159], Boebert has supported the energy industry. A member of the Republican Party, Boebert is known for her gun rights advocacy, in particular after a confrontation with Beto O'Rourke over policy on semi-automatic rifles. [153], During her 2020 campaign, Boebert pledged that she would not support any federal budget that resulted in additional debt[36] and that she would support a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R, CO-3), an in-your-face conservative who only barely won in a clearly GOP-leaning district in western Colorado, has not moderated her behavior at all in the aftermath of her near-loss. [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. [77] During the primary, her main challenger was Don Coram, a state senator who positioned himself as more moderate. She is also among Boeberts most vocal critics in the district. [187][188] She has also compared the virus to communism. 112. In January, Buentello sued the congresswoman in U.S. District Court, claiming Boebert had violated Buentellos First Amendment rights by blocking her on Twitter, which Boebert did in response to a tweet calling for her recall after January 6. If its going to be done anyway, you wouldnt want to say, Its not OK with me, and punish your constituents, says Gradisar, a Democrat, who says he initially wanted to give [Boebert] the benefit of the doubt and the ability to represent Pueblo., Boebert supports infrastructure spending generally but has criticized the Biden plan for overreach. . The article said that although she had only been in Congress for a few days, she had "already arranged several episodes that showcased her brand of far-right defiance as a conspiracy theorist" and that she "represents an incoming faction of the party for whom breaking the rulesand gaining notoriety for doing itis exactly the point. [206][207][208] In June 2022, she told a church audience, "The church is supposed to direct the government. In western Colorado, we call that a fun weekend. The Keating Research poll, conducted from . [34], In September 2019, Boebert made national headlines when she confronted Beto O'Rourke, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, at an Aurora town hall meeting over his proposal for a buy-back program and a ban on assault-style rifles like AR-15s. February 27, 2023. The American Patriots Three Percent militia, affiliated with the Three Percenters, provided security, and members of the Proud Boys attended the rally. Lauren Opal Boebert (/bobrt/ BOH-brt; ne Roberts; born December 19, 1986) is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun rights activist[2] serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district. [35][36][16][37] Later that month, she opposed a measure banning guns in city-owned buildings at a meeting of the Aspen City Council. To the east, city officials that operate the Pueblo Municipal Airport and its tenants said the facility needs to be modernized to attract businesses. He has tried to schedule a meeting with her to discuss these issues, he says. Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken right-wing freshman lawmaker, is in a tight battle for reelection. [45] She accused the incumbent of supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants by voting for H.R. [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. [85] During the pre-primary debate on May 26, Boebert emphasized the bills she had introduced in Congress while questioning Coram's legislative votes. The county is the most diverse part of Boeberts district, home to the states highest concentration of Latinos. [77] When the vote count resumed after the rioters had been removed from the Capitol, the challenges to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes proceeded to a vote while those against several other states were dropped. Lee Aronsohn [81], Boebert's campaign had a significant advantage, with $5 million in campaign funds to Coram's $225,000; Coram also started campaigning late in the primary,[83][84] and Boebert was endorsed by Donald Trump. The PAC collected $314,490 from donors large and small, and some 2,000 volunteers joined in the effort, which included posting billboards that featured Boeberts mugshot and highlighted the multiple arrests and warrants she faced before entering politics. [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. [78], Boebert supporters failed to throw Coram off the ballot for allegedly not having collected enough signatures. In 2020, Boebert won the Colorado seat as a political newcomer with 51 percent of the vote, beating her Democrat rival Diane Mitsch Bush by 6 points. [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. 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). After enduring its fourth outbreak in the spring, Pueblo County lifted capacity restrictions for all businesses on May 17, when case counts had improved. [148][146] Omar responded that the story was invented and that "Anti-Muslim bigotry isnt funny and shouldnt be normalized". The resolution, which was introduced by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) earlier this month, claims that by . rally opposing Colorado's red flag law, which allows guns to be taken from people deemed a threat. But it's not clear. 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. She Says She Reimbursed The Money", "Lauren Boebert vows to stay her course as she seeks another term in Congress", "Gloves come off in first debate between congressional candidates Don Coram and Lauren Boebert", "Fact check: Democratic group makes multiple false claims in its dramatic allegations about Lauren Boebert's past", "Rep. Lauren Boebert has yet to file defamation suit over claims by American Muckrakers PAC", "Who is David Wheeler? [146] During a November 18, 2021, speech on the House floor, Boebert called Omar "the Jihad Squad member from Minnesota". A restaurant owner who had never run for office before she declared her candidacy in late 2019, Boebert tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election and made a show of carrying a gun inside the U.S. Capitol in her early days in Congress. Mayor Nick Gradisar sent Colorados congressional delegation a letter asking them to consider a number of local projects as part of Bidens infrastructure proposalincluding $350 million for freeway and interchange reconstruction, $62 million for a new transit facility, $30 million for new fire stations and apparatuses, $25 million to replace a bridge that connects downtown to south Pueblo, and $2.5 million to modernize the local airport terminal and repair parking lots and airfield surfaces.
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