Greene. [185] Boebert also alleged that there was a deliberate effort to introduce immigrants who would substitute the unvaccinated people. [57] The result gained national attention and surprised political commentators. Among DeSantis backers, Trump leads the poll with 34 percent, Haley was second with 27 percent, and Pence third 10 percent. [210] Experts said her statement is contrary to the Constitution's Establishment Clause. [164][b] Boebert also opposes the participation of the United States in the Paris Agreement, calling it "job-killing", and introduced a bill the day after Biden's inauguration seeking to block re-entrance of the country to the agreement by forcing its ratification in the Senate by a two-thirds supermajority and prohibiting the use of federal funds for reaching the agreement's goals. [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. [70], Despite campaign finance laws and ethics laws requiring Congressional candidates to reveal their immediate family's income sources to show potential conflicts of interest, Boebert did not report her husband's income in her 2020 filing, instead belatedly revealing it in August 2021,[26] the same day the Federal Election Commission (FEC) sent her a letter investigating her campaign expenses. ", "How Lauren Boebert rose from unknown to a candidate for Congress to someone in Donald Trump's orbit", "QAnon-Curious House Candidate Gave Her Customers Diarrhea", "Shooters makes transition from guns to golf clubs", "Affidavit of Transfer and Statement of Compliance", "Colorado's Boebert discloses husband's work for energy firm", "Who is Lauren Boebert, the QAnon sympathizer who won a Republican primary? [71] The filing, while misnaming the company involved, stated that her husband Jayson was paid $460,000 in 2019 and $478,000 in 2020 as a consultant for Terra Energy, one of Colorado's largest natural gas producers and fourth nationwide in methane emissions. [166], Boebert believes that attempts at decarbonization should be made via forest management. 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. In the face of fierce anti-gun legislation, Boebert stands up for the second amendment and the founding fathers' vision for a nation that respects its citizens . Bottom: Greg Pedroza is interim director of aviation for the city of Pueblo. [71] She also proposed amendments to the Build Back Better Act that would abolish methane-emission payments by fracking companies and others that would increase royalties for oil and gas extraction on federal lands and abolish fines and financial requirements for cleaning abandoned drilling infrastructure. You're an insurrectionist if you do that! Those who are living in the White House are not living in reality. The Denver Post reported in early February 2021 that three ethics experts said that the high figure was suspicious. She's running against Democrat Adam Frisch in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.. [219], In her 2022 memoir, Boebert claimed that her husband never exposed himself in public, despite pleading guilty and serving jail time for an incident. Lauren Boebert is a freshman Republican House member who won a dark horse victory in 2020. [55][56], On June 30, Boebert won the Republican nomination with 54.6% of the vote to Tipton's 45.4%. [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). [133], Boebert is a strong advocate for gun rights. She had little trouble with moderate state. Bottom left: The old steel mill in Pueblo. Incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert holds an advantage among likely voters in Colorado's sprawling 3rd Congressional District, a new poll shows, but her lead is small enough that challenger. When he announced his longshot campaign to unseat Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) just over a year ago, it was by no means assured that Adam Frisch, a Jewish Democrat from Aspen, would advance past the primary, let alone have the chance to face off against one of the most high-profile, if controversial, Republicans in Congress.. [143][144][145], In September 2021, Boebert told attendees at a Republican fundraiser that she and an aide were joined by Democratic representative Ilhan Omar on a Capitol elevator and that Boebert then said to her aide, "it's the Jihad Squad She doesn't have a backpack, she wasn't dropping it and running so we're good". [12] Boebert herself registered to vote in 2006, at age 19, as a Democrat; in 2008, she changed her affiliation to Republican. For now, Perko says he calls Democratic Reps. Jason Crow or Joe Neguse, who represent districts that include parts of Denver and Boulder, respectively, when he needs help from Congress. [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. Freedom Caucus firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo, has won her bid for re-election against Democrat Adam Frisch, an automatic recount confirmed Monday. [73], In August 2021, the FEC investigated the apparent use of more than $6,000 from Boebert's 2022 reelection campaign funds for her personal expenses. In addition to her opposition to Bidens infrastructure plan, Boeberts name was not among the 51 federal lawmakers who signed a bipartisan letter circulated by the American Iron and Steel Institute, encouraging the White House to maintain tariffs enacted under Trump. The former top aide to Lauren Boebert, a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Colorado on a meteoric rise within President Donald Trump's political sphere, hosted a self-proclaimed member of the Proud Boys on a Facebook video last year in which she described the group as "pro everything that makes America great." [122] She later explained that she objected to giving an award to Billy Evans, who was included in the resolution and who died during an unrelated Capitol attack in April that year. The effort was unsuccessful; the neophyte Boebert beat Mitsch Bush by 6 points. She won reelection in 2022 by a very narrow margin of 546 votes against former Aspen City Council member Adam Frisch. 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. David Zalubowski/AP Photo. 1095, which seeks to establish the United States' national gun. [146] Also that month, Boebert called Omar "a full-time propagandist for Hamas" and an "honorary member of Hamas". At a recent listening session on a sunlit brewery patio bordering a weedy lot with an abandoned factory, Sandoval urged representatives from the citys churches, universities, school systems, and Native American and Latino communities to help her raise money and awareness about her campaign. Now, much of the complex sits in disrepair. [17], In 2013, Boebert and her husband opened Shooters Grill in Rifle, west of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has found herself in a surprisingly close race for re-election as control of the House remains uncertain. Top right: A traveling vaccine clinic is parked outside a church in the Dog Patch neighborhood of Pueblo, which is heavily Hispanic. [101][102], In September 2021, Boebert submitted a resolution to impeach President Joe Biden and another to impeach Vice President Kamala Harris over the withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP The controversial House member from Colorado is facing a challenger. [217][218], In 2016, Boebert was cited for careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle. But its not clear her version of working-class includes the steel workers here. David Zalubowski/AP Photo, But she has been so terribly disappointing, continued Garcia, who owns a textile recycling firm. [186] In June 2021, Boebert advised her constituents in Mesa County, who were experiencing an uptick of Delta variant cases at the time, that the "easiest way to make the Delta variant go away is to turn off CNN [and] vote Republican", but has since deleted the tweet amid public criticism. Pueblo needs better representation, the article read. Bottom right: A sticker on the bumper of Charles Perko, the president of United Steelworkers Union Local 3267. As of Monday evening, Ms Boebert is leading by 1,122 votes, with 99 per cent of votes reported. [202] She introduced a bill to ban federal funding of research and publications into transgender health care for minors, asserting that they are being "sexualized and used for horrific sexual research'" when being administered puberty blockers. [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. Constitution. Far right Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, who represents a conservative-leaning congressional district in Colorado, is currently in a statistical tie with her Democratic challenger, former Aspen city council member Adam Frisch. The job shes doing is fundamentally disconnected from [the district] and our needs.. [52] But after winning the Republican primary, Boebert denied following QAnon and endorsing conspiracy theories, instead saying she wanted to uphold "freedom and the Constitution of the United States of America". Top left: An Army vaccination site at the state fairgrounds in Pueblo has the capacity to vaccinate 3,000 people against Covid per day. [154] She opposes any tax increases. But Trump backed her general election campaign. [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). Deputies reported she "encouraged people arrested for underage drinking to break free and repeatedly said she had 'friends at Fox News' who would report on her subsequent 'illegal arrest'". How Boebert's race got so close . [124] She alleged in a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland that he was being too lenient toward those who were arrested during the 2020 BLM riots, as compared to the Capitol rioters. 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. I had to make those connections, and really, I underreported a lot of stuff. [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%. The first, introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene, would criminalize providing sex reassignment surgery and other forms of transgender health care to minors; the second was the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, introduced by Mike Johnson, which would prohibit federally-funded institutions from promoting or instructing on LGBT issues or sexual orientation and is widely seen as a national version of Florida Parental Rights in Education Act. Colorado representative Lauren Boebert was adored by the Republican base - but has had to fight for her political life. More recently, Buentello has channeled her energies toward defeating Boebert in 2022. 47% of likely voters say they'll vote for Boebert and 45% for Frisch. All of which has perhaps given Pueblo a new political identity amid its day-to-day struggles: as the heart of the Lauren Boebert resistance. She's one of the top fundraisers in the House, raising over $6 million since taking office, according to her latest disclosure with the Federal Election Commission. [96] Boebert was one of the people who voiced support for the Freedom Convoy 2022, a Canadian trucker protest seeking to repeal all COVID-19 vaccination mandates and COVID-19 restrictions. So far, Boebert has one announced Republican challenger, Marina Zimmerman, a crane operator who bills herself as a genuine blue-collar candidate.. | Collectively, Democratic candidates raised $832,842 in the first quarter of the yearshy of Boeberts $846,000. [100] The case was dismissed with prejudice on October 28, 2022. To the east, city officials that operate the Pueblo Municipal Airport and its tenants said the facility needs to be modernized to attract businesses. Houston was No. ", "Lauren Boebert Went Full Racist Conspiracy Theory Against Ilhan Omar", "How Lauren Boebert built her career on guns, militias and far-right pandering", "QAnon Women in Politics Part One: The QAnon Candidates", "GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert's call to collapse separation of church and state spurs alarm", "Lauren Boebert: could the rightwing extremist be re-elected to Congress? In October 2020, Boebert's campaign denied any connection to the Proud Boys and said Boebert did not share Bishop's views. House Republicans, including Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, are sponsoring a bill that is sure to rile the left. Boebert voted against the certification of both states' electoral votes. Use of campaign funds for personal expenses, Certification of 2020 presidential election and Capitol attack, Comments on representatives of other religions, 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado District 3, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado District 3, withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan, Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States. Across the parking lot from Gradisars office in City Hall on Pueblos Arkansas Riverwalk, sits the office of attorney Donald Banner, who donated to Boeberts 2020 campaign and approves of the job shes doing in standing up against special interests and standing up against party. Still, he acknowledges the almost century-old Union Street bridge, less than a mile down the street, is dilapidated. Boebert, winning her first Congressional term in 2020 and her second in 2022, is also known . (The results were based on a sample of 528 online surveys.) Unfortunately, Ilhan can't say the same thing. The race was too. 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. "Most of the Biden Regime learned about governing from watching (MSNBC anchor) Rachel Maddow and it really shows," wrote the far-right congresswoman. [20][21][22] The Boeberts also owned a restaurant called Smokehouse 1776 (now defunct), across the street from Shooters Grill. [125][a] She also entered a resolution seeking to recognize antifa as a domestic terrorist organization[129] and said BLM would "burn down cities and destroy businesses". 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. ", "Mounting antiscience aggression in the United States", "Lauren Boebert beat a Colorado congressman. She pleaded guilty to the unsafe vehicle charge, and the careless driving and failure to appear charges were dismissed. Its very frustrating.. [182], Boebert opposes mitigation policies seeking to reduce COVID-19's spread. A Democrats from Denver to the District of Columbia got a big boost last week, with a new poll of Colorado's 3rd District showing controversial conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert in political danger. [193] She introduced a bill that would ban all mask mandates on federal property and during travel in interstate commerce, attracting no support. [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. There is a lot of want to in this town, said Greg Pedroza, the airports acting director. After a surprise primary victory last year in which she ousted a five-term Republican incumbent, Boebert, shown here at a 2020 campaign event in Pueblo County, has the support of the state and national GOP going into 2022. . The charge was later dismissed because the Mesa County district attorney's office believed there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction if the case went to trial. Top: The Evraz steel plant stands behind one of Pueblos poorer neighborhoods. "Fewer guns make sense," Frisch, 54, said matter-of . ", "Boebert Proposes Wildfire Prevention Bill That Draws On Ideas From Colleagues On Both Sides Of The Aisle", "Boebert introduces bill to pay for logging, raise timber revenue", "Boebert bill would keep BLM HQ in Grand Junction", "14 House Republicans Vote Against Condemning Myanmar Military Coup", "Buck, Boebert vote against House resolution condemning Myanmar coup", "House votes to repeal 2002 Iraq War authorization", "These 16 Republicans voted against speeding up visas for Afghans fleeing the Taliban", "Rep. Lauren Boebert defends tweet about Taliban takeover of Afghanistan", "Did Boebert Praise Taliban for 'Building Back Better'? Before the primary, Trump endorsed Tipton,[44] but Boebert characterized him as unsupportive of Trump. [138][139] A New York Times profile of Boebert characterized her actions as "a made-for-Twitter moment that delighted the far right." A new poll has Democrat Adam Frisch within two points of incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert. [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. [86][87] Several thousand Democrats tried to influence the election by renouncing their membership in the party and voting as independents for more moderate Republicans, which is allowed in the state. First-term Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's lead over Democratic challenger Adam Frisch has widened in her surprisingly tight Colorado House race. I work for the people of Pueblo, not the people of Paris, Boebert tweeted in January, a dig at the Paris Climate Accords. [9][134] She has also said she became religious while attending a church in Glenwood Springs[17] and volunteered at a local jail for seven years. [177][178], Boebert supports the construction of a MexicoU.S. Republican Rep. 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