Posted on 12/16/2019 5:37:17 AM PST by marktwain
Lauren Boebert for Congress
Republican Lauren Boebert intends to Primary incumbent Scott Tipton for a Colorado seat in the House of Representatives. Tipton is in a district that as about 34% Republican, 29% Democrat and 37% independent. President Trump won the District with 52% of the vote in 2016.
Boebert is from Rifle, Colorado, where she has gained national and international attention as the owner of Shooters Grill, a restaurant where the staff openly carry pistols.
The restaurant has been popular in Colorado. Now Lauren is taking her flair for positive press to primary a Republican she deems to be insufficiently and actively conservative. From coloradopolitics.com:
The pistol-packing owner of Rifle's Shooters Grill is mounting a Republican primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, charging that the five-term incumbent isn't doing enough to champion conservative values.
“I was finally fed up enough and made the determination someone needs to be aggressive and passionate enough to give a darn,” Lauren Boebert said in an interview with Colorado Politics. “We have so many Republicans who run as conservatives, but they don’t act as conservative Republicans.”
Lauren gained more national attention when she openly confronted presidential candidate Francis “Beto” O'Rourke, with his openly avowed stance to confiscate Constitutionaly protected rifles, such as the popular AR15. She told him: “Hell no, you won't take our guns.”
Lauren points to a rising star on the Left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and says she will fight for Constitutional rights and limited government. From Lauren:
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Squad and the rest of these left-wing lunatics are taking a wrecking ball to our country while our current representative stays utterly silent,”
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Depends on the candidate, really, and whether or not they are willing to stand. Gardner used his victory speech 6 years ago to say that government shutdown and impeachment of Obama were off the table, after having runon a so-called Conservative, Tea Party platform. He's a spineless, backstabbing piece of garbage.
I drive through Rifle about twice a year. I need to stop by this place next time through. :)
80% of Gardner’s campaign budget goes to hair product.
Chickenpooper’s gonna beat him. Without lifting a finger.
Jason Crow is a disgusting anti 2A POS and a disgrace to the uniform. He has forgotten his oath to defend the Constitution.
More like he’s ignored it.
I have some problems with Gardner, but I have more with Chickenpooper.
I read the article about Scott Tipton on Wikipedia. He sounds like a fairly conservative Republican, but the article didn’t mention any Second Amendment issues. Maybe Lauren should put herself in a position to try to take down a Democrat incumbent rather than a fellow conservative.
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