Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a controversial congresswoman who enthusiastically supports former President Trump, is in a very tight reelection race with Democratic candidate Adam Frisch. [74] In September 2021, Boebert submitted documents to the FEC declaring that the campaign money had been used to settle rental and utilities bills, and had since been reimbursed. A new poll commissioned by Adam Frisch's campaign shows the Democratic candidate for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District trailing incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert by just 2 percentage points. Mike Pence is . But several dozen Puebloans Ive spoken with in recent weeks, including some who cast ballots for Boebert, say theyre angry that she appears to have spent more time headlining GOP fundraisers than hosting public meetings to listen to their needs. "[51] The Colorado Times Recorder reported that she followed multiple YouTube channels connected with QAnon before deleting her YouTube account when it came under scrutiny. [26][72] The company told The Daily Beast that Jayson was a contracted shift worker for the company who was not paid directly but through another company, Boebert Consulting. [182], Boebert opposes mitigation policies seeking to reduce COVID-19's spread. [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. Photos by Patrick Cavan Brown for Politico Magazine. [31] The following day, Garfield County suspended her food license. "With Boebert under 50%, that means she is. [138][139] A New York Times profile of Boebert characterized her actions as "a made-for-Twitter moment that delighted the far right." Top: A train passes under Union Bridge in Pueblo. Well, on February 17, 2023, Moore introduced a bill, H.R.1095, that would declare the AR-15 style rifle the "National Gun of the United States.". . The Keating Research poll, conducted from . Boebert failed to appear in. [177][178], Boebert supports the construction of a MexicoU.S. [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. Bottom: Greg Pedroza is interim director of aviation for the city of Pueblo. Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert defeated her more moderate challenger in the Republican primary for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday, NBC News projected. 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. [78], Boebert supporters failed to throw Coram off the ballot for allegedly not having collected enough signatures. "[141], Boebert has embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory. As far as I can tell, we are paying her $180,000 a year for her to tweet and go on Fox News. ", "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? Boeberts Democratic opponent in the 2020 race won the county by just 204 votes. [137], On January 5, Boebert refused a bag check after she set off the newly installed Capitol Hill metal detectors, and entered the Capitol. Boebert has campaigned in about two dozen places across the district this month, sometimes with a Glock strapped to her hip. H ard-line conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert is facing a tougher-than-expected midterm election race against Democratic opponent Adam Frisch, a former Aspen city councilman. [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). [80][81] Boebert's attorney said in June that she would file a defamation lawsuit against the group, but she has not done so. [217][218], In 2016, Boebert was cited for careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle. [103][104][105], On January 3, 2023, at the beginning of the 118th Congress, Boebert voted for Jim Jordan to be the U.S. House Speaker, in rebuke of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. [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". For candidates running to defeat Boebert in 2022, winning over Pueblos voters is key to outweighing support in Republican strongholds on the Western Slope, and Democrats are already campaigning here. A lot of dreams seem to die and not see follow-through.. Freedom Caucus firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo, has won her bid for re-election against Democrat Adam Frisch, an automatic recount confirmed Monday. [25] Shooters Grill, according to her congressional disclosure forms, lost $143,000 in 2019 and $226,000 in 2020. Both Boebert and Coram agreed that Colorado's forests need to be managed better to prevent wildfires and that it should start locally. The county is the most diverse part of Boeberts district, home to the states highest concentration of Latinos. By Zo Richards. [96], Observers describe Boebert as far-right;[3] she rejects the label. Pueblos demographic and economic character also sets it apart. Polling up until this point had Boebert as the likely winner: FiveThirtyEight's predictive model, for example, gave Frisch a 3 in 100 chance of taking the . Colorado resident Marina Zimmerman announced on Tuesday that she is planning to challenge Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in the next round of House elections in 2022. [131] She criticized what she called Biden's failure to contain "a complete invasion at our southern border"[131] and Democrats' preference for open borders that she said had enabled the Democratic electoral takeover of California. The 140-year-old complex had forged the iron that built the West, and once was Colorados largest employer, with some 10,000 workers. Top right: Yanera McCulley is a third-generation mortician. [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". [42][43], In December 2019, Boebert launched her bid to represent Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, beginning with a challenge to five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary. American Muckrakers PAC set sights on Boebert", "In Boebert's District, as Elsewhere, Democrats Surge Into G.O.P. Top right: Originally built in 1941 as an Army Air Base, the airport currently services two to three commercial flights per day. Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling has been surveying the race for the Chicago Sun-Times . Gradisar said he understood her concerns, but added that if earmarks do become an option, it doesnt make sense for Boebert to oppose them at the expense of communities in her district. Source: Colorado Secretary of State's office Data source: Colorado Secretary of State's office 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. As the steel industry has declined, the city has tried to reinvent itself, but it struggles with high unemployment and poverty rates. 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. [26], Boebert says her first job at a McDonald's restaurant changed her views about whether government assistance is necessary. [55][56], On June 30, Boebert won the Republican nomination with 54.6% of the vote to Tipton's 45.4%. Top left: Victor Navarro and his parents run the restaurant Tacos Navarro. Boebert, a vocal Trump and gun rights supporter, was the favorite to win re-election, as redistricting made the area she represents more conservative, AP reports. [95], As of January 29, 2022, she had introduced 17 bills and seven resolutions, none of which passed committee. [152] She later said the remark was made in jest. [60][61] She pledged to join the Freedom Caucus upon taking office. Do I think shes going to a have a tough reelection? She did the same on January 6, refusing to stop for a wand check after she set off the metal detector. Lauren Boebert: How unaffiliated voters feel about their Republican congresswoman Unaffiliated voters make up the largest percentage of the electorate in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District Close Become a member Login My Account Logout Search for:Search News Education Health Coloradans Equity Sun Investigation Crime and Courts Culture Sports But D.C. bureaucrats have used this agency to infringe on the rights of the American people. It's not in the Constitution. Abbott and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) each drew 6 percent from such voters. Lauren Boebert, the controversial pro-gun, Covid-skeptical freshman congresswoman who represents Pueblo, has credited working-class voters for her improbable 2020 victory. Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is among a group of nearly a dozen far-right Republicans who have co-sponsored a House resolution that calls for an end of all U.S. military and financial aid to Ukraine. CO-3 race between Lauren Boebert, Adam Frisch likely going to a recount. [167][168] Boebert has proposed legislation in the House anchoring the Bureau of Land Management's headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado, which is in the 3rd district. [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. [117][118] She was accused of endangering members' safety and faced calls to resign, but refused, defending her actions because Pelosi's evacuation was also publicly broadcast live on TV;[110][119][120] academic Zac Parker opined that it was still a potential security threat since C-SPAN did not focus on Pelosi, and had it not been for Boebert's tweet, the protesters might have not noticed it. Subcommittee on Water, Ocean, and Wildlife. [45], Boebert criticized Tipton's voting record, which she said did not reflect his district. The county is nothing like the conservative, government-skeptical towns west of the Continental Divide, where Boebert is from, or the glitzy, liberal ski areas in Aspen and Telluride, which she also represents. Pueblo needs better representation, the article read. 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." 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 . Boebert was born in Altamonte Springs, Florida, on December 19, 1986. 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. [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. 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. Its a promising sign, but Perko doesnt have much confidence that the steelworkers will get more help from their representative in Congress. She pleaded guilty to the unsafe vehicle charge, and the careless driving and failure to appear charges were dismissed. [131] During a press conference, she asserted that it was a lie, that it was racist,[132] and that it would lead to children hating each other. Jayson Boebert was arrested in 2004 for exposing his penis to two young women at a Colorado bowling alley. [200][201] She opposes same-sex marriage, writing on her campaign website that she is against "efforts to redefine marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman". 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