Posted on 04/13/2022 5:08:25 PM PDT by cotton1706
Archuleta County businesswoman Marina Zimmerman has dropped out of the Republican primary for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by Lauren Boebert, making the vote in June a two-horse race between longtime state Sen. Don Coram and Boebert, who is seeking a second two-year term.
“We need every chance we can get to get her and her extremism out,” Zimmerman told The Chieftain Wednesday, hours after announcing on Twitter that she was pulling out of the primary.
“I don't want to take any votes away from Coram,” whose petition to be included on the primary ballot was approved Tuesday by Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
By dropping out, Zimmerman is trying to make sure moderate Republicans and unaffiliated voters who choose to vote in the Republican primary on June 28 don't divide their votes between her and Coram, she said.
“Splitting the vote is not a good idea,” she said. “I just hope that the supporters that I had, which was a tremendous number of unaffiliated voters especially, and a lot of Democratic support, I hope they will see the benefit in getting Boebert out in the primary … What happens in the general (in November) is a different thing.”
A federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit from Republicans seeking to prevent unaffiliated voters, the largest bloc in Colorado, from choosing candidates in the Republican primaries. Coloradans voted to adopt the "open primary" system in 2016.
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They are scared to death! Especially after the results of the Colorado assembly (convention) last weekend.
I visited her restaurant last May, I was passing by going from Denver to Utah. The waitresses weren’t armed, they were too young to carry, high school girls I suppose. Bummer.
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The Bush League regroups.
“We need every chance we can get to get her and her extremism out,”
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When they use the language of the left, you can be sure they are Assistant Democrats.
Fake republicans worried about ‘extremists’ 🤪
They sound like stupid libtards
The RINO’s who have no realistic chance to win drop out to avoid splitting the RINO vote. Conservatives who have no chance tend to stay in to the bitter end. Of course some of those “conservatives” may be actually be RINO’s pretending to be conservative.
If they are successful in pulling this off, conservatives must sit out the next election even if it means handing the seat to Democrats. It is high time to tell the party they represent us, not the other way around.
We should fund a conservative in the democrat primary. Two can play this game. /spit
Conservatives are the only barrier keeping Communists from “fundamentally transforming” this nation. Give them power there will be nothing left to conserve.
“Conservatives who have no chance tend to stay in to the bitter end. Of course some of those “conservatives” may be actually be RINO’s pretending to be conservative.”
Like Mark Walker in North Carolina (trying to help Pat McCrory win) and Anthony Bouchard in Wyoming (trying to help Liz Cheney win).
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They are stupid libtards. No more conservative than Romney.
I guess in keeping with the current culture, we should call such rinos as Zimmermann trans-pubbies.
I am always voting for the RINO who just took out a conservative. A backstabbing assistant democrat is always better than the real thing.
Nothing is worth handing the seat to a Democrat.
RINO’s unite to defeat a Conservative. RINO’s fight FAR FAR harder against Conservatives than they ever do against Democrats. This pattern repeats and repeats and repeats.
“...and her extremism out”
Boebert’s political efforts in The House are EXTREMELY worthwhile.
Don Coram is a complete ass - and has been all about attaining power for himself for many years.
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