Rootin' tootin . [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. [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. Adam Frisch, the Democrat vying for a 2024 rematch against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, raised more than $500,000 within three days of announcing his candidacy last week in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, his campaign said. Subcommittee on Water, Ocean, and Wildlife. 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 . The former Shooters was owned by Silt Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP The controversial House member from Colorado is facing a challenger. ", "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? She accused Arizona of "unlawfully amending its voter registration laws by extending the registration periods", alleging widespread voter fraud, which echoed the false claims aired by Donald Trump, and accusing everyone who intended to accept the "results of this concentrated, coordinated, partisan effort by Democrats" of having allied themselves with the extremist left. Among DeSantis backers, Trump leads the poll with 34 percent, Haley was second with 27 percent, and Pence third 10 percent. 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. And I am tired of this separation of church and state junk. [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. In addition to Buentellos efforts, several Democrats have launched campaigns to challenge Boebert. A tweet from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) criticizing the Biden White House got flipped back on her late Tuesday. Earlier this year, she became co-chair of Rural Colorado United, a super PAC created in 2020 for the sole purpose of defeating Boebert and promoting her then-opponent, former state Sen. Diane Mitsch Bush. Bottom: A fly fisherman casts his lure into the waters of the Arkansas River near Lake Pueblo. @laurenboebert. Pueblo needs better representation, the article read. "[198], Boebert opposes the Equality Act, saying it promotes "supremacy of gays" and says transgender women take scholarships and sports opportunities away from cisgender women. 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. Controversial Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) leads her Democratic challenger Adam Frisch by only two points, according to a new poll out this week. [55][56], On June 30, Boebert won the Republican nomination with 54.6% of the vote to Tipton's 45.4%. [28] In mid-May 2020, during the pandemic, she violated the state's stay-at-home order by reopening Shooters Grill for dine-in service,[29] for which she received a cease and desist order from Garfield County, with which she refused to comply. 47% of likely voters say they'll vote for Boebert and 45% for Frisch. 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. 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. Rep. Lauren Boebert, shown here at a Pueblo County campaign event last fall, lost the county by just 204 votes. Bottom: Pueblo County lifted Covid capacity restrictions for all businesses on May 17. 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). 5038, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, saying that the act had a provision that led to citizenship and provided funding for housing for undocumented farm workers. Freedom Caucus firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo, has won her bid for re-election against Democrat Adam Frisch, an automatic recount confirmed Monday. [161] In February 2021, Boebert proposed a bill to ban executive moratoriums on oil and gas leases and permits on some federal lands. The American Patriots Three Percent militia, affiliated with the Three Percenters, provided security, and members of the Proud Boys attended the rally. [214] They have four sons. But theres no question the metropolitan area is struggling, saddled with the states highest unemployment rate and some of its highest violent crime and opioid addiction rates. The Democrat running to unseat U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has pulled within 2 percentage points of the Republican incumbent in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, putting the candidates in a statistical tie only weeks before voting begins in the state, according to an internal poll released Tuesday by Boebert's challenger. 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. [17], In 2013, Boebert and her husband opened Shooters Grill in Rifle, west of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Houston was No. February 27, 2023. [60] Boebert emphasized her devotion to Trump and his policies and reiterated her points about deregulation of industries and decreasing healthcare funding,[62] while rallying for the expansion of gun rights. Top: The Evraz steel plant stands behind one of Pueblos poorer neighborhoods. 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. The three in Pueblo are Democratic state Rep. Donald Valdez, whose district includes part of Pueblo County; Sol Sandoval, a Pueblo-based community activist with deep ties to the citys nonprofits; and Susan Martinez, a certified nurses assistant. 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. Lauren Boebert, the controversial pro-gun, Covid-skeptical freshman congresswoman who represents Pueblo, has credited working-class voters for her improbable 2020 victory. 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. [9] A September survey paid for by Michael Bloomberg's Democratic-leaning House Majority PAC had Mitsch Bush ahead by one percentage point. [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. [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. Bottom left: The old steel mill in Pueblo. The 2022 United States Senate election in Colorado was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Colorado.Incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet won reelection to a third full term, defeating Republican businessman Joe O'Dea. [187][188] She has also compared the virus to communism. ", "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? [112] In December 2021, Boebert doubled down on these allegations, saying that hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally mailed to voters, without providing evidence. [80][81] Boebert's attorney said in June that she would file a defamation lawsuit against the group, but she has not done so. The race in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District was still extremely close after 99% of the ballots were counted. Many people make $20 an hour, at least $6 over the average minimum wage, he added. Boebert was born in Altamonte Springs, Florida, on December 19, 1986. [152] She later said the remark was made in jest. Look at Colorado's 3rd Congressional race", "Boebert rally in Cortez draws dozens concerned about individual liberty", "Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are lone votes against reauthorizing bill to help Leukemia patients", "Why Holocaust comparisons by anti-vaccine activists like RFK Jr. are grossly inaccurate", "Lauren Boebert accuses Dr Fauci of 'bullying' for telling people to 'get over' politics and get vaccinated", "Yes, Lauren Boebert Tweeted That 'Turning Off CNN' was the 'Easiest Way' to Make the Delta Variant Go Away", "Rep. Lauren Boebert threw a mask at a staffer who asked her to wear one, as some GOP lawmakers refused to follow the House's new mask mandate", "Rep. Lauren Boebert rails against mask-wearing mandate in D.C.", "Gardner Joins Maskless, Gun-Toting Boebert in Western Colorado Campaign Stop", "PolitiFact - Texas has recorded COVID deaths since removing its mask mandate thousands of them", "Boebert, Clyde fined for defying House floor mask mandate", "More than a dozen Republicans tell House they can't attend votes due to 'public health emergency.' She failed to disclose her husband's income from energy consulting", "Here Are America's Top Methane Emitters. 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. Shell also have more support from the institutional Republican Party. House Republicans, including Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, are sponsoring a bill that is sure to rile the left. [175][176] She also opposes intervention in the escalation of the war tensions between Russia and Ukraine that started in late 2021. There is a lot of want to in this town, said Greg Pedroza, the airports acting director. [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. Shooters Grill itself came into national prominence when Boebert encouraged her staff to openly holster firearms while serving customers. [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 Keating Research poll, conducted from . [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%. But the door to her local office is often locked, and her staff doesnt return his calls. 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." [45][46][47] Seth Masket, a political science professor at the University of Denver, suggested that Boebert wanted to motivate Republican voters to participate in the primary during a slow election cycle by stirring up their anger at Ocasio-Cortez and others. Jayson Boebert was arrested in 2004 for exposing his penis to two young women at a Colorado bowling alley. Top: Former Democratic state legislator Bri Buentello is co-chair of Rural Colorado United, a PAC working to defeat Boebert in 2022. [157], In May 2022, Boebert was one of nine House members who voted against two bills to alleviate the 2022 shortage of baby formula caused by bacterial contamination. [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. During her congressional campaign, she said she was "with the militia". Pueblos demographic and economic character also sets it apart. [11][12] She dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby. 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. Lauren Boebert's Reelection Bid Might Be In Jeopardy, As Suggested By A Poll Taken After Her Recent Contentious Debate. [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. To the east, city officials that operate the Pueblo Municipal Airport and its tenants said the facility needs to be modernized to attract businesses. 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. [198][199] A Congressional Research Service report released in March stated that "formally designating fentanyl as [a weapon of mass destruction] may not be necessary for additional executive branch action" but that Congress could consider legislation to "address 'perceived shortcomings'. After enduring its fourth outbreak in the spring, Pueblo County lifted capacity restrictions for all businesses on May 17, when case counts had improved. [118] Boebert's communications director resigned on January 16 in response to her behavior on January 6. [196] In response, the Campaign for Accountability, an ethics watchdog group, filed a complaint with the House Committee on Ethics and requested an investigation into Boebert and the other lawmakers. Right: A sign on a fence in the neighborhood behind the Evraz steel plant. [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. The rest goes to climate change, increasing government bureaucracy, and unrelated liberal wish-list items.. The effort was unsuccessful; the neophyte Boebert beat Mitsch Bush by 6 points. [23] In 2015, Boebert opened Putters restaurant on Rifle Creek Golf Course,[24] which she sold in December 2016. Left: Bright murals liven up the otherwise brick-toned landscape in Pueblo. Voters who oppose Boebert have one other option, Republican state Sen. Don Coram, in the June 28 primary. 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.. "Fewer guns make sense," Frisch, 54, said matter-of . ", "Just How Unqualified Is Lauren Boebert, Really? 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