Lauren Boebert called out as coward trying to “fleece” her new district

Colorado Sun columnist Mario Nicolais did not hold back in a scathing op-ed calling Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) an embarrassment to “herself, her family, her constituents and her state.”

Nicolais emphasized Boebert’s “cowardice” in switching districts for the 2024 election when she realized her chances of reelection in her own district were waning in the face of strong Democratic opponent Adam Frisch.

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“It was not a surprise last week when Boebert was the only person to make the ballot through the assembly, despite winning only 41% of the vote,” Nicolais wrote, referring to the fact that Boebert secured the top spot on the ballot for the June 25th Republican primary.

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“Only the best snakeoil salespeople know how to skip town when the mob turns on them and arrive at another prepared to fleece its inhabitants.”

Referring to both Boebert and the state party chair Dave Williams – who he said “has used the ever-shrinking coffers of the party as a slush fund for his own congressional campaign – Nicolais said it is “no wonder the state has rejected the GOP wholesale for the past decade.”

Boebert currently represents Colorado’s mountainous Third Congressional District, but she won her reelection battle in 2022 by a razor-thin margin. Facing numerous scandals and the same Democratic challenger who almost beat her last time, she announced earlier this year that she would run in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District in the east of the state, dominated by plains but much more conservative — and safer from Democratic challengers — than the Third.

She has since been accused of district-shopping and was called a “carpetbagger” to her face in a GOP debate. In January, a Colorado paper also called out Boebert for appearing to know very little about her new district.

Boebert’s time in Congress has been riddled with scandal, including when she was kicked out of a theater where children were present for allegedly groping a man’s genitals during the show.

Boebert and her male companion were  escorted by security out of a performance of the musical Beetlejuice at the city-owned Buell Theatre in Denver after the venue’s staff received multiple complaints that the couple was vaping, singing loudly, recording the show, and “causing a disturbance.”

She also recently slammed the $1.2 trillion federal spending bill recently signed by President Joe Biden because it did not take away enough rights from LGBTQ+ people. Boebert reposted a list from the House Freedom Caucus – which referred to the bill as the “swamp omnibus” – of what it deemed “The Biggest Pro-Life & LGBT Surrenders in the $1.2 Trillion omnibus bill” – not even trying to cloak its anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment a euphemism.

The list of “surrenders” included that the bill “fully funds DOD transgender surgeries” and provides “nearly $10 million for organizations providing or promoting gender transitions for adults and children.” The first one is referring to how the military already covers gender-affirming care for servicemembers and their families under TriCare. Republicans were hoping to ban TriCare from paying for the care in the budget process. The latter may refer to grants for LGBTQ+ organizations, many of which have nothing to do with gender-affirming care other than that they provide spaces and support for LGBTQ+ people.

Boebert got a score of “0” on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard for her first term in Congress, showing her solid opposition to LGBTQ+ equality. She didn’t just vote against LGBTQ+ legislation; she led a press conference in front of Congress to stop the Equality Act – which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes in federal civil rights law – from passing in 2021 when Congress was voting on it.

She claimed that the law would be used to take children away from their parents if the parents refused to give their kids access to gender-affirming care, something that wasn’t in the bill at all.