Lauren Boebert, Star Second Amendment Supporter, Wins Colorado House Race

AmmoLand ^ | 16 November, 2020 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Image screenshot from laurenforcolorado.com, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Lauren Boebert is a star Second Amendment defender. She has an excellent media presence. She owns an open carry restaurant in Rifle Colorado. She understands politics.

Lauren Boebert won the race for the Colorado Third Congressional District with strong vote totals.

Lauren turned heads when she primaried sitting Congressman Scott Tipton. Her opponent in the Republican primary was endorsed by President Trump. Boebert claimed Tipton voted for illegal alien amnesty. From a Boerbert press release on 5 January 2020:

The Heritage Foundation called the Farm Workforce Modernization Act,“foremost an illegal immigration bill that would provide amnesty for millions of illegal agricultural workers—and their spouses and children.”

Democrats have occupied the seat for 12 of the last 36 years, form 1986-1992 and from 2004 – 2010. Dick Wadhams gave this analysis of Lauren's opponent in the race for the Colorado third district U.S. House seat. From completecolorado.com:

Boebert will now face former state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, a sociologist from Steamboat Springs, who lost to Tipton two years ago. Mitsch Bush will attempt to campaign as a moderate even though her legislative record is on the left. She not only supports gun control; she supports the main tenets of the Green New Deal and Medicare for All promoted by Democratic Socialists such as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Only two Democrats have won the seat over the past 35 years. State Rep. Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Ignacio unseated Republican Congressman Mike Strang of Carbondale in 1986.  Congressman Campbell was elected to the Senate in 1992 as a Democrat but switched parties to Republican in 1995.

Lauren Boebert gained prominence as the owner of a restaurant that supports the open carry of firearms, in Rifle, Colorado.

[marktwain]

Lauren replaces Scott Tipton, who she beat in the primary.

Tipton is conservative. He did not take Boebert as a serious challenge. Tipton is a Reagan republican, and is 64 years old. He supported President Trump.

[Hambone 1934]

Amazing how Trump’s coattails helped every Republican, but Trump....

[lodi90]

I’ve never heard of Tipton. If he supported POTUS he didn’t do it very loudly.

[DoodleDawg]

Amazing how Trump’s coattails helped every Republican, but Trump....

Why? It's a local election not a statewide race. It's not surprising at all that she won the congressional district while Trump lost Colorado.

[marktwain]

Seems a solid conservative.

Wikipedia shows him as not believing in man made climate change, criticizing the Obama foreign policy in the Middle East, and he voted to repeal Obamacare.

I hope he continues to fight the good fight with us.

[DoodleDawg]

I hope he continues to fight the good fight with us.

He just won't be doing it in the House.

[PrairieLady2]

Ben nighthorse campbel was terrible. He didn’t care about his constituents.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Boebert decided to challenge Tipton in the GOP primary when he refused to join other Colorado Republicans in speaking out against this year's ballot proposition (which unfortunately passed) that does away with our Electoral Votes by joining the Natl Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

An even bigger error of his is that he endorsed the Farm Workers Modernization Act of 2019. Tipton was one of only 39 GOP Congressmen to vote for it.

Here's what the Heritage Foundation's take on that bill was: To Avoid Amnesty, Agricultural Immigration Reform Must Address This Issue

[CincyRichieRich]

Glad she won; she ran as a conservative, patriot, NOT A REPUBLICAN...I don’t give a flying rip about labels...patriot, conservative, defender of the republic is all that matters.