Voters are 'fed up' with 'performance artist' Boebert making Colorado a 'laughingstock'

On December 27, embattled far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) made a bombshell announcement: She was leaving Colorado's 3rd Congressional District and moving to the even more conservative 4th District.

Lauren was facing an uphill battle in the 3rd District, where she was up against an aggressive GOP primary challenge from attorney Jeff Hurd and — if she made it to the general election — an equally aggressive foe in likely Democratic Adam Frisch. Now, in the 4th District, she is seeking the 2024 Republican nomination for the seat presently held by Rep. Ken Buck (who isn't running for reelection).

Colorado-based journalist Ryan Biller, in an article published by Politico on January 8, lays out some reasons why Boebert wore out her welcome in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.

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"The district she currently occupies, the 3rd, is culturally conservative by nature and not necessarily averse to being represented by a culture warrior," Biller explains. "But Boebert, in her short tenure in Congress, had proved to be something more than that — an ideological performance artist who drew more notice for courting controversy and generating outrage than for her legislating or constituent service."

Biller continues, "Her predicament — and her quest for a safer harbor — is offering insight into questions that are proliferating in an era of lightning-rod House members whose stock in trade is stoking the outrage machine. What exactly do we expect from our members of Congress? And how far are we willing to let them go in defending our tribal values?"

Moving to Colorado's 4th District, Biller emphasizes, was "a desperate act by a desperate candidate."

Grand Junction Mayor Anna Stout (who is competing with fellow Democrat Frisch in the 3rd District) slammed Boebert as a source of embarrassment to her state.

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Stout told Politico, "There is an acute sense of being fed up here. We don't want to be a national laughingstock."

Boebert, Biller notes, is "no shoo-in" among voters in Colorado's 4th Congressional District — where one of her GOP rivals is calling her a "carpetbagger."

But Rhett Garcia, a Republican voter in Mesa County, Colorado, is glad to see her gone from the 3rd District.

Garcia told Politico, "She pulled the Band-Aid off. If she had a chance to get reelected, she wouldn't have left. No way. Boebert knows Republicans and Democrats alike smell blood in the water. I'm just glad she’s gone. It's time for an adult to represent the district.'"

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Read Politico's full report at this link.