[197], In June 2022, Boebert introduced a bill that would classify the opioid fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. Top left: Victor Navarro and his parents run the restaurant Tacos Navarro. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The job shes doing is fundamentally disconnected from [the district] and our needs.. [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. Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert got a new Democratic challenger this week, and the roster of attention-grabbing political ads from Colorado candidates got a new entry. 1095, which seeks to establish the United States' national gun. [9][10], Boebert has said that her family depended on welfare when she was growing up. Her spokesman later said that she had not been carrying a gun during the walk. Bottom: Greg Pedroza is interim director of aviation for the city of Pueblo. Boebert said she voted against the bills because "the Biden administration and Democrats created the issue. Collectively, Democratic candidates raised $832,842 in the first quarter of the yearshy of Boeberts $846,000. [124] Boebert said she intended to introduce a bill that would end financing of legal aid for immigrants. [135], After saying that she planned to carry a gun while working on Capitol Hill,[17][136] Boebert published a viral video advertisement showing her placing a handgun in a hip holster and walking through the neighborhood, near federal buildings and through alleys. ", "Mounting antiscience aggression in the United States", "Lauren Boebert beat a Colorado congressman. [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. [31] The following day, Garfield County suspended her food license. More recently, Buentello has channeled her energies toward defeating Boebert in 2022. [182], Boebert opposes mitigation policies seeking to reduce COVID-19's spread. [12], After leaving high school, Boebert took a job as an assistant manager at a McDonald's in Rifle. 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 . Boebert, a staunch ally of former . [163] She opposes the Green New Deal, claiming it would cost $93 trillion to implement and would bankrupt the country. . Subcommittee on Water, Ocean, and Wildlife. 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. October 6, 2022. ", "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? [133], Boebert is a strong advocate for gun rights. [39], Boebert was an organizer of the December 2019 "We Will Not Comply!" 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. Houston was No. [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. 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.". [210] Experts said her statement is contrary to the Constitution's Establishment Clause. Lauren Boebert ( Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. 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 aimed to portray him as corrupt, in particular by alleging that he used his powers as a state legislator to pass laws legalizing hemp, which Coram grows (state voters approved the amendment legalizing marijuana in 2012), and tried to depict him as not Republican enough. CO-3 race between Lauren Boebert, Adam Frisch likely going to a recount. [187][188] She has also compared the virus to communism. The Donald Trump acolyte had been predicted to easily secure a second term in Congress against Democratic challenger Adam Frisch, although polling had tightened in recent weeks. 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). 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. So far, Boebert has one announced Republican challenger, Marina Zimmerman, a crane operator who bills herself as a genuine blue-collar candidate.. [11][12] She dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby. They're slated to be at CPAC", "First on CNN: Watchdog group requests investigation into 13 GOP lawmakers for misusing proxy voting", "Boebert introduces measure to classify fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction", "Lauren Boebert pushes to classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction", "Boebert's stance on Equality Act raises concern among LGBTQ in her district", "Lauren Boebert criticised for calling Equality Act 'supremacy of gays', "Lauren Boebert compares trans healthcare to grafting "aborted babies to lab rats", "What's in the so-called Don't Say Gay bill that could impact the whole country", "Lauren Boebert is part of a dangerous religious movement that threatens democracy, experts say", "Rep. Lauren Boebert said humanity is in its 'last days' and Christians should 'rise up,' invoking Christian nationalist imagery that's linked to violence", "The Christian Right is winning cultural battles while public opinion disagrees", "Boebert, court decisions ignite debate over church and state", "PolitiFact - Lauren Boebert wrong on Founding Fathers' intent, experts say", "GOP Rep. Boebert: 'I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk', "Silt couple discovers that childbirth can be one wild ride", "Lauren Boebert's husband did jail time for "lewd exposure" in a bowling alley. The rest goes to climate change, increasing government bureaucracy, and unrelated liberal wish-list items.. "[150] The Denver Post apologized on Boebert's behalf for her remarks, saying that it was embarrassing that a Colorado representative engaged in such behavior. [18] Before Boebert and her husband opened Shooter's Grill, he worked in oil and gas fields. 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. [138][139] A New York Times profile of Boebert characterized her actions as "a made-for-Twitter moment that delighted the far right." Other voters here decried a fundraising appeal of Boeberts exclaiming that Pelosi and Biden want to take our guns, which was emailed to supporters hours after a shooting at a Boulder grocery store left 10 people dead. As far as I can tell, we are paying her $180,000 a year for her to tweet and go on Fox News. 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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.' American Muckrakers PAC set sights on Boebert", "In Boebert's District, as Elsewhere, Democrats Surge Into G.O.P. 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. In an unexpectedly tight race where the freshman lawmaker, an ally of . [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. [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. [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. Boeberts message of government overreach during the pandemic, which was a major theme of her 2020 campaign, also still reverberates in Colorados libertarian corners, including parts of Pueblo. One of every four Pueblo residents lives in poverty. 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. [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. CNN and Politico called it a "stunning upset";[37][58] The Hill made a similar statement. [146][149] After Boebert and Omar spoke by phone, both said the call went badly, with Boebert saying that she would put "America first, never sympathizing with terrorists. [77] She has equated the behavior of some of the rioters that participated in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests following the murder of George Floyd to those who attacked the Capitol. She reported $1.9 million on hand as of Sept. 30. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) slammed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday for being "absent on the job," following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. ", later claiming that the remarks were made "in reference to the ongoing security measures in place around the Capitol complex". 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. [20][21][22] The Boeberts also owned a restaurant called Smokehouse 1776 (now defunct), across the street from Shooters Grill. Pueblo County, located on Colorados dusty, windswept plains two hours south of Denver, is the swingiest part of Boeberts districtmaking it a key test of her staying power. [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. [45] She accused the incumbent of supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants by voting for H.R. Bri Buentello is an educator and former Democratic state legislator who lost her seat, which includes parts of Pueblo County, last November. [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. 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. "[160] She declared support for uranium extraction and the generation of nuclear power, touting it as the "cleanest form of energy". [137], On January 5, Boebert refused a bag check after she set off the newly installed Capitol Hill metal detectors, and entered the Capitol. "Most of the Biden Regime learned about governing from watching (MSNBC anchor) Rachel Maddow and it really shows," wrote the far-right congresswoman. 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. [9] A September survey paid for by Michael Bloomberg's Democratic-leaning House Majority PAC had Mitsch Bush ahead by one percentage point. She stands up for the Constitution, and shes fiscally conservative, he added. 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. Still, big-money donors here often give to candidates from opposing parties, independents regularly vote Republican, and blue-dog Democrats skew conservative. According to the New York Post, Boebert is joined by Reps. George Santos of New York and Andrew Clyde of Georgia in cosponsoring H.R. 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", "Immaterial Support: Whiteness, Stings, and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act", "A Republican Lawmaker for Whom the Spectacle Is the Point", "Rep. Lauren Boebert says Twitter account locked until Inauguration Day", "Communications director for gun-toting congresswoman quits", "21 Republicans vote no on bill to award Congressional Gold Medal for January 6 police officers", "Lauren Boebert rips 'partisan games' after her vote against medals for police who responded to Jan. 6 attack", "Boebert demands 'Biden regime' explain alleged unequal treatment of Jan. 6, BLM rioters", "Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters", "Black Lives Matter comparison roils court in Jan. 6 cases", "Two Trump-appointed judges reject comparisons between January 6 and Portland unrest", "U.S. Rep. 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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. [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. [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. Bottom left: Sol Sandoval, a community activist in Pueblo, is among the nine Democrats running for Boeberts seat. By Zo Richards. [4][5][6][7] She opposes transitioning to green energy, COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates, abortion, sex education, gender affirmation surgery for minors, and non-heterosexual marriage. [162] Conversely, Boebert opposes sustainable energy initiatives because she considers green energy unreliable and believes that decreasing the extraction of fossil fuels in her district will "regulate our communities into poverty". 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. Boebert, a first-term Congresswoman, has gained notoriety for her belligerent approach to basic issues of governing, having even touted plans to carry a gun while on duty in the. [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. In an April poll conducted and paid for by three Democratic-leaning firms, 42 percent of Coloradans interviewed in her district said they had a favorable view of the representative, while 45 percent reported a negative view.