Posted on 03/14/2024 5:51:47 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) called Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-Colo.) decision to resign early “weak sauce” but said she would not be resigning to run in the special election to fill his seat.
Boebert represents the state’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes the Western Slope and much of southern Colorado. She announced late last year, however, that she would run for Buck’s seat, which is the 4th District in eastern Colorado, after Buck announced he would not seek reelection.
But Buck moved up his retirement, saying Tuesday he plans to leave Congress at the end of next week. The decision triggers a special election this summer to fill out the remainder of his term and threatens Boebert’s chances of being elected to his seat.
The development raised questions about whether Boebert would try to fill Buck’s seat for the remainder of his term. However, Boebert told The Hill: “I’m not leaving my constituents in the 3rd district.”
Boebert said she’s still planning to run in the GOP primary in June to serve the full two-year term in the 4th District and criticized Buck’s decision to leave his House seat early in a statement issued through her campaign.
“Ken Buck’s announcement yesterday was a gift to the Uniparty. The establishment concocted a swampy backroom deal to try to rig an election I’m winning by 25 points,” she said. “Forcing an unnecessary Special Election on the same day as the Primary Election will confuse voters, result in a lame duck Congressman on day one, and leave the 4th District with no representation for more than three months. The 4th District deserves better.”
Boebert also touted that she was the “only Trump-endorsed, America First candidate in this race.”
Boebert, who entered Congress in 2020, is in a tough spot politically. The Colorado Republican barely won reelection in the state’s 3rd District against Democrat Adam Frisch in 2022. Her decision to switch districts was seen as a move to avoid losing in her current district, where Frisch has announced he is running again.
But the special election triggered by Buck’s earlier-than-expected retirement has thrown a wrench in her electoral prospects. Each party gets to nominate a candidate to face off in the June 25 special election — held the same day as the state’s primaries.
Because Buck’s district is reliably red, whichever Republican gets chosen to compete in the special election is better positioned to win the GOP primary for the two-year term to serve in the district beginning in January because voters will weigh in on both races on the same day.
Boebert would have had to resign from her seat to compete in the special election for Buck’s seat, which would have further imperiled the GOP majority in the House.
That's like saying if Lee Zeldin was popular in the 5 Burroughs of NY he'd win his Governor race.
Blame Boebert but not the UniParty hack resigning. Typical of FR these days.
Wicker is still there in Miss. a/o Tuesday. Some of us never learn.
I liked Ken Buck as a Senate candidate in 2010, I don’t know what went wrong with him. But both these blowhard politicians can buzz off
AMEN! Boebert is RIGHT on the issues! Her popularity is a result of the Leftist Propaganda Press we are stuck with.
It’s like the “Trump tweets mean things.” mentality.
Yep. Observe the sign up/infiltration date. It's a rat troll.
“I don’t know what went wrong with him.”
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NeverTrumpers are worse than Democrats.
Boebert knows she would not win a special election for the seat. Very few in CD4 want her carpet-bagging ways and highly questionable moral character.
Thank you for posting this. I have read similar posts where we state that we liked a candidate on his way in and then later don’t know what went wrong when they veer off the Republican rails for no visible reason. It has been surmised here that a great number of our Congressional, Supreme Court, and other leadership are being blackmailed in one manner or another almost from the get go. If so that can’t be a multitude of independent operations all over the country. It would suggest some coordination behind the scenes. Does this date back to the Clinton’s improperly obtained 900 FBI files on mostly Republican officials? And Hoover’s massive files on everybody before that? Who has those files and keeps adding to them?
“Uniparty” and “RINO” have no meaning if they’re applied to a hardcore conservative like Buck.
I understand being upset with his being a party renegade, but I can’t see how someone who for years has voted over 95% of the time on the right side of issues is now somehow un-Republican. Ilhan Omar frequently diverges from her party leadership, but no one has ever declared her to be anything other than a Democrat.
Everyone needs to hit on how dishonorable Buck is being. He’s leaving his constituents without representation for purely selfish reasons. The man is a disgusting pile of……crap.
Boebert is making the right decisions in this circumstance.
Bullcrap. The Colorado democrats stuffed her ballot box and pulled every dirty trick imaginable against her. Sure gas a long-standing successful business and they canceled her lease, killing her super cool little restaurant. They redistricted her and roped in leftist areas. And of course repub establishment types are sprays running little schemes like this…. And you blame her.
Jerk
Oh, please. She’s been under constant attack by both RATs and RINOs. She is popular in her own district; it’s hard to beat the cheat.
Buck is a squish.
Boebert should be an influencer.
He is a Cheney follower.
“After Liz Cheney was ousted as Republican Conference Chair for refusing to accept Trump’s claims of a stolen election, Buck likened her ouster to cancel culture, further stating that the decision would alienate voters who agreed with Cheney’s stance.
After Trump was indicted for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, Buck distanced himself from comments made by fellow members of the House Freedom Caucus, which accused federal law enforcement of targeting Trump, saying that he trusted the process to take its course.”
“Boebert knows she would not win a special election for the seat. Very few in CD4 want her carpet-bagging ways and highly questionable moral character.”
CD4 then needs an alternative candidate that wins the seat running away. Without that, I really think CD4 is full of nimrods who cut off their nose to spite their face. The house election is first to put someone into the seat that votes along conservative ideas, second a party member, third might be a value to the congress. 200 members of congress are meat tubes, that is fine.
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