I know we need it repaired, said Banner, a civil law practitioner who recently sent a letter to Boeberts office asking her to consider funding for the regions small water districts, which supply water to customers in rural areas, in the infrastructure bill. Source: Colorado Secretary of State's office Data source: Colorado Secretary of State's office [11][13] She earned a GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary. [63][64], In late July, Boebert was considered the front-runner. 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? Is she the next GOP star? Middle: Downtown Pueblo has undergone aesthetic improvements supported by local businesses and residents. [140], In February 2023, after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives mandated that gun owners register any firearms that use "stabilizing braces", Boebert said the mandate violated the separation of powers. It's not in the Constitution. As the steel industry has declined, the city has tried to reinvent itself, but it struggles with high unemployment and poverty rates. Before the primary, Trump endorsed Tipton,[44] but Boebert characterized him as unsupportive of Trump. In a press release announcing the measure, she derided Bidens plan, saying only 6% of his $2.3 trillion so-called infrastructure plan goes to roads and bridges. The rest goes to climate change, increasing government bureaucracy, and unrelated liberal wish-list items.. [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. Mike Pence is . [172][173] She also voted against the bipartisan ALLIES Act, which would increase by 8,000 the number of special immigrant visas for Afghan allies of the U.S. military during its invasion of Afghanistan while also reducing some application requirements that caused long application backlogs; the bill passed the House, 40716. CNN and Politico called it a "stunning upset";[37][58] The Hill made a similar statement. Boebertwhose office did not respond to multiple requests for commentalso has failed to push for policies that would help the community, these Pueblo residents say. And Boebert now has the support of Take Back the House 2022, organized in January to collect contributions for Republican candidates, which has donated about $71,078 to her campaign; the House Freedom Fund, which supports conservative grassroots candidates, has donated $20,657. 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. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) drew outrage with her threatening response to Twitter's ban of fellow far-right extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 's . [170] She cited concern about a passage that urged social media platforms to prevent disinformation and violence, which she said was tantamount to making Big Tech the "arbiter of truth". . Top right: A traveling vaccine clinic is parked outside a church in the Dog Patch neighborhood of Pueblo, which is heavily Hispanic. [135] The video was made by the same consulting firm that produced the viral August 2020 campaign video for House candidate Kimberly Klacik. 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. Boebert said she voted against the bills because "the Biden administration and Democrats created the issue. At the same time, Colorados Republican Party has only moved more in Boeberts direction since her election, and the national GOP has embraced her and her campaign. [78][79] A Democratic-aligned Super PAC made false claims and unproven allegations about Boebert. One of the bills, the Access to Baby Formula Act, makes it easier for low-income families to continue buying formula with vouchers; the other allows the government to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed up production. Both Boebert and Coram agreed that Colorado's forests need to be managed better to prevent wildfires and that it should start locally. Recently, the local newspaper editorialized that the states independent redistricting commission should remove Pueblo County from Boeberts district altogether. The 140-year-old complex had forged the iron that built the West, and once was Colorados largest employer, with some 10,000 workers. [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. [210] Experts said her statement is contrary to the Constitution's Establishment Clause. 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 . 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. [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. 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. Like many Puebloans, Buentello owns several guns, calls members of both parties friends and is a devout Catholic. Back in town, nestled among stately old homes on large lots interspersed with working-class neighborhoods, Perko, the steelworker, unlocked a lilac-colored door to his union chapters century-old hall, its yellow paint peeling off the exterior. "A new poll" = I talked to the voices in my head. Its this reality that makes voters like Perko frustrated with a U.S. representative they see as more focused on her own celebrity than her constituents. Boebert ( Republican Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. And the bill has a trio of co-sponsors: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), Rep. George Santos (R-New York), and Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Georgia). [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. From the moment I was born, I already didnt have the same opportunities as children who were born into a wealthier neighborhood, Sandoval said, after 15 or so attendees had told her they needed funds to curb opioid addiction, serve transgender youth and aid immigrants. [197], In June 2022, Boebert introduced a bill that would classify the opioid fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. [31] The following day, Garfield County suspended her food license. [193] She introduced a bill that would ban all mask mandates on federal property and during travel in interstate commerce, attracting no support. Lauren Boebert's Reelection Bid Might Be In Jeopardy, As Suggested By A Poll Taken After Her Recent Contentious Debate. I thought Lauren would be a great representative for small-business owners because she owns a small business, and she came from a humble lifestyle, said Gus Garcia, a political independent who also voted for Biden. [49] Boebert raised just over $150,000 through the June 30 primary. [20][21][22] The Boeberts also owned a restaurant called Smokehouse 1776 (now defunct), across the street from Shooters Grill. Capitol. [109] Boebert then told Speaker Nancy Pelosi that her constituents were outside the Capitol and that she had promised to represent their voices in the chamber. [2] Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Cheri Bustos said in a statement that national Republicans should disavow Boebert for supporting QAnon. CO-3 race between Lauren Boebert, Adam Frisch likely going to a recount. [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. [118] Boebert's communications director resigned on January 16 in response to her behavior on January 6. [9][10], Boebert has said that her family depended on welfare when she was growing up. [95], As of January 29, 2022, she had introduced 17 bills and seven resolutions, none of which passed committee. Top right: Originally built in 1941 as an Army Air Base, the airport currently services two to three commercial flights per day. [137], On January 5, Boebert refused a bag check after she set off the newly installed Capitol Hill metal detectors, and entered the Capitol. [9] A September survey paid for by Michael Bloomberg's Democratic-leaning House Majority PAC had Mitsch Bush ahead by one percentage point. 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. [177][178], Boebert supports the construction of a MexicoU.S. Boebert has campaigned in about two dozen places across the district this month, sometimes with a Glock strapped to her hip. ", "Shooters Grill In Rifle Defies Cease-And-Desist Order", "Shooters Grill Moves Tables Outside To Serve Customers After Cease & Desist Order", "Shooters Grill in Rifle has food license suspended, owner says", "Court case against Shooters Grill dismissed, but license still suspended as county, owner negotiate reopening", "A fluke or the future? [203] In 2022, she cosponsored two bills widely seen as anti-LGBT legislation. Originally appointed to the seat in 2009, Bennet won a full term in 2010 and a second full term in 2016. Collectively, Democratic candidates raised $832,842 in the first quarter of the yearshy of Boeberts $846,000. You're an insurrectionist if you do that! [214] They have four sons. [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". Shooters Grill itself came into national prominence when Boebert encouraged her staff to openly holster firearms while serving customers. A lot of dreams seem to die and not see follow-through.. Its very frustrating.. [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. [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. "Fewer guns make sense," Frisch, 54, said matter-of . Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-Colo.) reelection in the 2022 midterms remained in doubt into Wednesday. Biden won by 1,520 votes in November, after Trump had claimed victory by 390 votes in 2016. . Inside the hall, he swept his hand across a conference table-size, sepia-colored picture of the steel complex in its heyday, explaining how Evraz plans to retain and grow the communitys steel-making business by building a new $480 million facility to better compete with overseas markets. Some Will Surprise You", "Lauren Boebert May Have Violated Financial Disclosure Laws", "Federal officials press GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert over apparent personal use of campaign funds", "Lauren Boebert paid rent and utilities with campaign funds, FEC filings show", "Lauren Boebert Used Campaign Funds To Pay Rent. The race in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District was still extremely close after 99% of the ballots were counted. [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). | [195], In late February 2021, Boebert and a dozen other Republican House members skipped votes and enlisted others to vote for them, citing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, while actually attending the Conservative Political Action Conference, which was held at the same time as their absences. She responded that she knew someone involved with documents declassified by Trump during the closing days of his presidency, and that the documents would reveal corruption that would trigger resignations that would allow Republicans to retake the House and Senate before 2022, echoing a theory promoted by The Epoch Times. [71] Boebert oversees the energy industry via her position on the House Committee on Natural Resources. [77] During the primary, her main challenger was Don Coram, a state senator who positioned himself as more moderate. [80][81] Boebert's attorney said in June that she would file a defamation lawsuit against the group, but she has not done so. [26], Boebert says her first job at a McDonald's restaurant changed her views about whether government assistance is necessary. [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. 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. Bottom right: A sticker on the bumper of Charles Perko, the president of United Steelworkers Union Local 3267. People here feel Boebert doesnt represent their values, says Colorado state Senate President Leroy Garcia, a Pueblo Democrat who is popular with voters in both parties. [12], After leaving high school, Boebert took a job as an assistant manager at a McDonald's in Rifle. [44], Boebert faced Democratic former state representative Diane Mitsch Bush, a retired sociology professor from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in the November general election. [216], In 2015, Boebert was detained at a music festival for shouting at a group of people arrested for underage drinking, yelling that the arrest was unconstitutional because they had not received Miranda warnings. He has tried to schedule a meeting with her to discuss these issues, he says. Bri Buentello is an educator and former Democratic state legislator who lost her seat, which includes parts of Pueblo County, last November. If we can get just that part of the infrastructure plan alone passed, that will be business that would keep us in jobs for many years.. But Trump backed her general election campaign. Attendance logs at the Garfield County Sheriffs office show that she volunteered at the jail nine times between May 2014 and November 2016. "Most of the Biden Regime learned about governing from watching (MSNBC anchor) Rachel Maddow and it really shows," wrote the far-right congresswoman. [108] The next day, in the hours before the Capitol was attacked, she described the day's events as Republicans' "1776 moment", a reference to the American Revolutionary War. [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. 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. "[119] Democrats, fearing the guns might do harm while in Congress chambers and partly in response to Boebert's conspicuous carry of a firearm, proposed legislation, which is being considered in Congress as of February 2022, to ban guns from Capitol grounds altogether. Among voters in Pueblothe largest and most politically unpredictable city in Boeberts vast districtthere is a growing sense of exasperation with the freshman representative not yet six months into her tenure. According to a new poll, 60% of voters have less money in their pocket than they did a year ago. Bottom: Greg Pedroza is interim director of aviation for the city of Pueblo. [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. The top five spots in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll remained the same. He pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure, and was sentenced to four days in jail with a subsequent two years of probation.[220][221][222]. Her current term ends on January 3, 2025. On Twitter, she frequently attacks Biden and other Democrats; during the January 6 insurrection, she tweeted out House Speaker Nancy Pelosis location to her hundreds of thousands of followers. [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. Unaffiliated voters those not aligned with a major political party strongly dislike Boebert, who's known for her Christian nationalist rhetoric, opposition to bipartisan legislation, and lighting rod remarks about guns and immigration. [171], Boebert was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the authorization of military force against Iraq. Colorados Steel City is still trying to reinvent itself today, broadening its economic base with one of the nations largest marijuana grow facilities, wind and solar energy, and outdoor activities, thanks to the nearby mountains and lakes. [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. [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. [11][12] She dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby. [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. [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. [115][116] While the Capitol was being stormed, Boebert posted information on Twitter about the proceedings of the certification, including that the House chamber had been locked down and that Pelosi had been evacuated. From 2013 to 2022, she owned Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where staff members were encouraged to carry firearms openly. Rootin' tootin . [27], According to The Guardian, Boebert made a name for herself after loudly protesting the orders of Colorado Governor Jared Polis to close businesses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The county is the most diverse part of Boeberts district, home to the states highest concentration of Latinos. [154] She opposes any tax increases. She is accused of supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory, and some academic and journalistic sources have investigated her ties to far-right extremism. [100] The case was dismissed with prejudice on October 28, 2022. [163] She has introduced a forest management bill, the Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act, which would attempt to prevent wildfires through several mitigation measures, such as removing trees killed by bark beetles, making it harder for groups to go to court to stop forest thinning, and requiring the United States Forest Service to harvest sixbillion board foot (14million cubic meters) of lumber annually. 2. So far, Boebert has one announced Republican challenger, Marina Zimmerman, a crane operator who bills herself as a genuine blue-collar candidate.. Gradisar and state House Majority Leader Daneya Esgar, who represents Pueblo, were disappointed when Boebert signed on to a letter opposing the reintroduction of earmarks, which allow members to append projects in their districts to funding bills. After enduring its fourth outbreak in the spring, Pueblo County lifted capacity restrictions for all businesses on May 17, when case counts had improved. 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. Yep, three days after Valentine's Day, he . [68] CPR News calculated that it was plausible that Boebert had driven 30,000 miles based on her visits to 129 events. She has called the vaccine mandates unconstitutional[77] and in particular opposed them for the military. Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling has been surveying the race for the Chicago Sun-Times . [194] Boebert received a $500 fine for violating the mask mandate on Congress's premises. More recently, Buentello has channeled her energies toward defeating Boebert in 2022. We were sounding the alarm a full-blown year ago that Boebert was an imminent threat to our way of life, Buentello, who is also the government affairs director for an education nonprofit, said recently, as she sat outside Squawk, her favorite independent coffee shop in Pueblo. [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. "[160] She declared support for uranium extraction and the generation of nuclear power, touting it as the "cleanest form of energy". the storming of the United States Capitol, echoed the false claims aired by Donald Trump, unrelated Capitol attack in April that year, protests following the murder of George Floyd, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, the Afghan government fell to the Taliban, escalation of the war tensions between Russia and Ukraine that started in late 2021, enabled the Democratic electoral takeover, "Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton ousted in primary by gun rights activist", "Boebert Says She's Not a Far-Right Conservative", "Boebert Brandishes Bombast, Extremism In Representing Diverse Colorado District", "Lauren Boebert is known for her far-right Republican views. She did the same on January 6, refusing to stop for a wand check after she set off the metal detector. 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. 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. Still, big-money donors here often give to candidates from opposing parties, independents regularly vote Republican, and blue-dog Democrats skew conservative. [74] The funds were used between May and June 2021 via four Venmo payments. A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that after trailing for the last three months, former President Donald Trump has suddenly surged to a substantial lead over Florida Gov. We need to change this., In an earlier interview, Sandoval said that while shes running out of a sense of commitment to public service, her candidacy is also in reaction to Boebert. Boebert is often described as a far-right ally of former President Donald Trump, although she rejects this label. [147] At a November 20 event, she repeated the elevator story, this time including a Capitol Police officer with "fret all over his face". [192] She falsely claimed that during the two months that followed the end of the Texas mask mandate, the state did not record any COVID-19-related deaths. 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.. The restaurants did not have the required permits to operate the temporary location, and the Garfield County health department determined that the outbreak was caused by unsafe food handling at the event. A new poll has Democrat Adam Frisch within two points of incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert. Top: A train passes under Union Bridge in Pueblo. She stands up for the Constitution, and shes fiscally conservative, he added. But its not clear her version of working-class includes the steel workers here. The rest of the AP Top 25 was a big jumble. The job shes doing is fundamentally disconnected from [the district] and our needs.. [78], Boebert supporters failed to throw Coram off the ballot for allegedly not having collected enough signatures. Lauren Boebert ( Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. The Denver Post reported in early February 2021 that three ethics experts said that the high figure was suspicious. Shell also have more support from the institutional Republican Party. Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken right-wing freshman lawmaker, is in a tight battle for reelection. Boebert, winning her first Congressional term in 2020 and her second in 2022, is also known . And, based on her opposition to President Joe Bidens $2 trillion infrastructure plan, which Perko sees as a lifeline for his struggling industry, he doesnt think Boebert cares all that much about his union members. [146] Also that month, Boebert called Omar "a full-time propagandist for Hamas" and an "honorary member of Hamas". 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