[78], Boebert supporters failed to throw Coram off the ballot for allegedly not having collected enough signatures. [81], Boebert's campaign had a significant advantage, with $5 million in campaign funds to Coram's $225,000; Coram also started campaigning late in the primary,[83][84] and Boebert was endorsed by Donald Trump. [177][178], Boebert supports the construction of a MexicoU.S. [25] Shooters Grill, according to her congressional disclosure forms, lost $143,000 in 2019 and $226,000 in 2020. [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. At the same time that Democratic opposition to Boebert has grown, she will have the advantages of incumbency in 2022 and, almost certainly, support from Trump once again. 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. [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. [8] When she was 12, she and her family moved to the Montbello neighborhood of Denver and later to Aurora, Colorado, before settling in Rifle, Colorado, in 2003. [187][188] She has also compared the virus to communism. Almost 40 years after the steel market crashed, throwing thousands out of work, manufacturing makes up only 6 percent of the workforce. The temporary restraining order she obtained on June 23 against David Wheeler, one of its co-founders,[82] was vacated in July and the case dismissed. 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 . [110] During a town hall in March, Boebert appeared to defend the January 6 attackers on the Capitol, saying, "We already see in Washington, D.C. You can't petition your government. [33], Shooters Grill closed in July 2022, when the building's new owner opted not to renew the lease. Many people make $20 an hour, at least $6 over the average minimum wage, he added. Bottom right: Todd Rogers, chair of the Pueblo County Republican Party, is a Boebert supporter. [20][21][22] The Boeberts also owned a restaurant called Smokehouse 1776 (now defunct), across the street from Shooters Grill. [154] She opposes any tax increases. But D.C. bureaucrats have used this agency to infringe on the rights of the American people. Bottom left: Anthony Nunez owns The Favorite Tavern in downtown Pueblo and formerly served on the city council. The 140-year-old complex had forged the iron that built the West, and once was Colorados largest employer, with some 10,000 workers. Biden won by 1,520 votes in November, after Trump had claimed victory by 390 votes in 2016. Boebert said she voted against the bills because "the Biden administration and Democrats created the issue. Both Boebert and Coram agreed that Colorado's forests need to be managed better to prevent wildfires and that it should start locally. Source: Colorado Secretary of State's office Data source: Colorado Secretary of State's office [85] During the pre-primary debate on May 26, Boebert emphasized the bills she had introduced in Congress while questioning Coram's legislative votes. This is as the Biden Administration continues to tout their great economy. 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]. [50], In a May 2020 interview on SteelTruth, a QAnon-supporting web show, Boebert said she was "very familiar with" the conspiracy theory: "Everything I've heard of Q, I hope that this is real because it only means America is getting stronger and better. [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. 2. [39], Boebert was an organizer of the December 2019 "We Will Not Comply!" [49] Boebert raised just over $150,000 through the June 30 primary. Boebert's campaign attributed the figure to her "aggressive travel schedule", but members of her campaign did not provide evidence for the amount of travel. Boebert, a first-term firebrand, saw her GOP-leaning 3rd Congressional District in western Colorado become even more Republican after redistricting. Recently, the local newspaper editorialized that the states independent redistricting commission should remove Pueblo County from Boeberts district altogether. 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. [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. [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. 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. 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. One of every four Pueblo residents lives in poverty. 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. 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. [71] Boebert oversees the energy industry via her position on the House Committee on Natural Resources. She won reelection in 2022 by a very narrow margin of 546 votes against former Aspen City Council member Adam Frisch. 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. Shell also have more support from the institutional Republican Party. The Pueblo region is home to three of those candidates, as well as to a political action committee that is hoping to defeat Boebert. [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. She is also among Boeberts most vocal critics in the district. [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. 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. [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. With about 99% of the vote counted as of Friday . Houston was No. Even less predictable was that Frisch, who narrowly clinched the . Bottom right: Aaron Monlux owns and operates Acme Dry Cleaners. 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. [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. According to a new poll, 60% of voters have less money in their pocket than they did a year ago. [44], Boebert faced Democratic former state representative Diane Mitsch Bush, a retired sociology professor from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in the November general election. [95], As of January 29, 2022, she had introduced 17 bills and seven resolutions, none of which passed committee. [100] The case was dismissed with prejudice on October 28, 2022. As of Monday evening, Ms Boebert is leading by 1,122 votes, with 99 per cent of votes reported. [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. [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". ", "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? [80][81] Boebert's attorney said in June that she would file a defamation lawsuit against the group, but she has not done so. [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. And the union, which endorsed Boeberts opponent last year, plans to closely review her record when it comes time to choosing who it will endorse next year, he says. Top left: Victor Navarro and his parents run the restaurant Tacos Navarro. Kimberly Ricci Film/TV Editor Twitter. [92][93][94] The recount was completed on December 12 and affirmed that Boebert won by about 500 votes. PUEBLO, Colo.Charles Perko gestured past a vine-covered chain link fence toward a hulking steel facility with massive mills and squat brick office buildings. [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. 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. The former Shooters was owned by Silt Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. [161] In February 2021, Boebert proposed a bill to ban executive moratoriums on oil and gas leases and permits on some federal lands. [12] Boebert herself registered to vote in 2006, at age 19, as a Democrat; in 2008, she changed her affiliation to Republican. 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. Rootin' tootin . 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. [111], During the counting of the Electoral College votes before the attack, Boebert objected to accepting Arizona's votes in a speech to the joint session of Congress. [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. 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. [210] Experts said her statement is contrary to the Constitution's Establishment Clause. In this photo, Rep. Lauren Boebert speaks at a news conference with members of the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill September 15, 2022 in Washington, DC. 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. That poll, conducted by Keating Research, shows that Democrat Adam Frisch has made up ground in his race against the GOP incumbent, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, since the last poll was. 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." Colorado representative Lauren Boebert was adored by the Republican base - but has had to fight for her political life. 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. At least one person at Sandovals listening session who voted for Boebert said he had been disappointed by her, and plans to help Sandovals campaign. 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. ", "Regional: Shooters in Rifle serves a big helping of Second Amendment", "Lauren Boebert discusses, defends her past during Durango visit", "Boebert's Democratic upbringing questioned", "Did Rep. Boebert Get Her GED Months Before Winning Election? [18], Boebert promotes the ideals of Christian nationalism. [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. Middle: Downtown Pueblo has undergone aesthetic improvements supported by local businesses and residents. [77] During the primary, her main challenger was Don Coram, a state senator who positioned himself as more moderate. [155] While expressing support for more defense expenditure, Boebert was one of 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022,[156] saying the bill had a "woke agenda". Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 4, 2022 [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. 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. Bottom: A fly fisherman casts his lure into the waters of the Arkansas River near Lake Pueblo. [133], Boebert is a strong advocate for gun rights. [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. [18] Before Boebert and her husband opened Shooter's Grill, he worked in oil and gas fields. Right: A sign on a fence in the neighborhood behind the Evraz steel plant. 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