Boebert, 34, was elected in November 2020 to represent Colorados 3rd Congressional District, but the newly proposed map places her home in the 2nd District, which is represented by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse. Drop us a note at tips@coloradosun.com. From The New York Times: Americas jobs engine kept churning in November, the Labor Department reported Friday, a show of continued demand for workers despite the Federal Reserves push to curb inflation by tamping down hiring. And then she just went right back to being the old Boebert. Submit it here and itll go straight to The Denver Post politics team. We are not a blue state. Governor Jared Polis was formally sworn-in to a second term on Tuesday. A weapons ban is far off in a closely divided Congress. Returning a mail ballot was the preferred method for voters with 95.3% of voters choosing to cast their mail ballot during the 2022 General Election accounting for 2,444,360 total ballots returned and only 4.7% of voters choosing to vote in-person 120,159 total ballots returned. The new eighth district, running north of Denver, from Adams County to Greeley, has been drawn to be a relative swing district, with Democratic voters outnumbering Republicans by only 1.9 percentage points in last years U.S. Senate election, according to the Post. The only remaining mystery here is about whether Boebert who now finds herself in the majority in the House of Representatives will change her stripes after nearly losing re-election in a beet-red Republican district that went for Donald Trump by 9 points in 2020. Now, because the race in HD-43 did not have a third-party candidate, it is unlikely that there were hundreds of misinterpreted ballots out of a total of 45,379 total ballots cast. If youre shocked that right-wing Republicans are now saying that KBB hates America, then you really havent been paying attention. Jared Polis threatened to veto it. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (heres a good example). Listen to previous episodes of The Get More Smarter Podcast at GetMoreSmarter.com. The important thing to watch at this point is whether Boebert ever actually STICKS to her talk about lowering the temperature in partisan politics. Im looking forward to serving on the Oversight Committee, she said, [Pols emphasis] naming a House committee likely to lead congressional investigations into the Biden Administration. Its just pointing out the hypocrisy of using this against law-abiding citizens, having this law on the books, which is completely unconstitutional. Huffman could pay for a traditional machine recount himself Colorado doesnt do hand-counts though hed be unlikely to find enough votes to change the outcome of the race; that process generally only adjusts vote totals by a smidge, as we saw with last summers recount in the Republican race for Secretary of State. State law triggers an automatic recount if the top two candidates are within a 0.5 margin of votes. We talk about the new Congress and whether Republicans will ever settle on a new House Speaker a mess that involves Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert. Gaetz organized the anti-McCarthy club in Congress that refused to support him at all costs, regardless of the concessions. Wells said he always intended to spend the full $11 million but that he stopped at $3.3 million about a month before Election Day after he realized other GOP donors werent going to open their wallets in Colorado and as he saw how much money Polis, a wealthy self-funding candidate, was dedicating to his reelection bid. Youre reading an installment of our weekly politics newsletter. Anyway, at some point the 2022 election will in fact end. It was the right shtick for her at the right time. The first step for the right-wing base is finding a new leader. The conservative firebrand had been widely expected to dominate in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. Now that Boebert has officially won re-election, will she tone down her nonsense rhetoric and learn a lesson from her near-defeat? Its official. Lauren Boebert canvases her potential district of western Colorado for the 2020 election. And dont forget to find us onFacebook and Twitter. Jared Polis signed last week. So basically any attempt to provide more support for poor or middle-income people is likely to come from other programs that help those same groups. According to a just-completed survey by Keating Research, multi-millionaire Democrat Adam Frisch is trailing freshman Republican Boebert by only 47% . Advocates like Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) have been working with the business community and lobbying the state legislature for laws like SB21-236, which Gov. Supporters said they wanted Pueblo to be in compliance with federal law and that the ordinance wouldnt specifically ban abortion. Nationally, weve seen a huge shift in the politics of the issue, Giffords Executive Director Peter Ambler said. Pregnant immigrant minors deserve to have their bodily autonomy respected, including while in government custody., (The chaos is the point Promoted by Colorado Pols). Boebert has also labeled Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who is Muslim, a jihad squad member and compared her to a suicide bomber. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, tilted the odds against its continuation in an evenly split Senate. While Hancock is working to figure out the details locally, so too will the mayors in St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. The congresswoman has been a relentless critic of the Biden administration as well as a vocal advocate of Second Amendment gun ownership rights and other conservative issues. In recent Congresses, when lawmakers made that kind of change, they were generally supposed to find something to offset the cost so that long-term deficits didnt grow. The blip was caused by new Republican state Reps. Scott Bottoms and Ken DeGraaf , both of Colorado Springs. Notwithstanding Matt Gaetz, Boebert is relieving herself of friends instead of gaining them. And Bottoms and DeGraaf on Monday gave them another reason not to bother. Heres an update: While most demographic groups have made gains in employment numbers from January 2020 to May 2021 working mothers included nationally theres a lag in Colorado. Qanon House Speaker Kevin McCarthyhas his caucus running on full grievance mode in his first week since slogging through 15 different votes before he officially claimed the Speakers gavel. Legal Statement. But Routt and Garfield counties, which would be in the proposed district and are in Boeberts existing 3rd District, favored the Democratic candidate in 2020. Republican Rep. Ron Weinberg of Loveland is inadvertently strengthening these arguments with his own idiotic decisions. I think what he did was wrong, but whether he gets a committee assignment is up to Kevin, he said, referring to Mr. McCarthy. It starts with the treachery of the GOP in our state. This isnt a mystery. They cannot be offset by tax revenue increases. *Colorado Coronavirus info: From The Associated Press: Among the attendees will be the owner of Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado where five people were killed in a shooting last month, and two survivors of the attack. The group, Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity, said on its website that the conversation surrounding reparations for Black Americans has been stuck in the realm of the hypothetical since the end of the Civil War. Unfortunately, many of these young people experience sexual assault in their countries of origin or on the perilous journey to the U.S., and some may enter ORR custody pregnant. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert speaking with attendees at the 2021 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center. Also on Monday, the SOS office announced the results of two recounts in CO-03 and HD-43 that predictably ended up making no meaningful change to the final results. The problem is not what it was five years ago. So that accountability measure certainly needs to be there. Their confrontation grew so heated that at least one onlooker feared the Greene-Boebert back-and-forth might escalate beyond the verbal cage match had another board member not stepped in to de-escalate, according to a GOP lawmaker who was granted anonymity to describe what happened. Now that Greene has snagged spots on key committees like the House Oversight Committee and Homeland Security Committee, she appears ready to leave her friendship with Gaetz in the dust. Lets Get More Smarter. Marjorie Taylor Greene is fighting with Lauren Boebert and George Santos appears to be starring in the sequel to Catch Me If You Can and its not even January 3rd. He cited concerns about inflation and that it discouraged people from working. UPDATE #8: Rep. Joe Neguse revels in the schadenfreude as Kevin McCarthy loses a third round of balloting, with Rep. Lauren Boebert and the Never Kevins seeing no reason whatsoever to budge: rofl, he lost again. She is still #51 of th Varela seems to have the gift of creatin We seemed to have avoided Snowmageddon.& Republicans Deserve George Santos. In a near-upset, Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert almost lost her bid for reelection in a solidly red district. Candidate Huffman had the option under Election Rule 10.9.3 to request a recount by means of a re-scanning of all of the ballots, but he has elected to request, and pay for, a recount by means of readjudication. Forward this newsletter to your colleagues and encourage them to subscribe. Dom Calicchio is a Senior Editor at FoxNews.com. Without a GOP county with a large population in her district, it will be difficult if not impossible for Boebert to counteract the Democratic strongholds of Broomfield and Boulder County. (Turning down the temperature Promoted by Colorado Pols). Could An Adjudicated Recount Make a Difference in CO-03? Yes, we know its now 2023, but this week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii discuss the last of the big political stories of the year that was. [Pols emphasis]. Boebert led Frisch by 550 votes in last months midterm election. The Colorado Republican Party sent out the following statement from KBB today demanding that Democratic candidate Adam Frisch stop a mandatory recount in Congressional District 3even though Frisch has no ability to do any such thing: According to KBB, Frisch has the unilateral power to prevent wasting Colorado taxpayer money on a frivolous recount if he would just do the honorable thing and withdraw from the race. Greene responded by snapping at her one-time pal and saying that she would have been on her committees sooner if it wasn't for Gaetz's hijinks. Boebert has also been making the wrong kind of news for Republicans lately because of an increasingly-nasty spat with fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greenerelated to Boeberts refusal to voice support for wannabe House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. According to the ACLU, On November 10, 2022, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)announced new guidanceto ensure that unaccompanied immigrant minors have access to abortion while in ORR shelters awaiting reunification with family in the United States. Democratic rival Adam Frisch has already conceded defeat, saying that he believes a new count will not change the election's outcome. Everyone knows Congress is broken. In short, Republicans came out against election integrity and showed their backsides in the process. Provided by the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission, Photos by The Denver Post, left, and Jay Janner, The Austin American-Statesman via the Associated Press. Remember when Weld County rancher/oil and gas development land ownerSteve Wells made headlines for promising to spend $11 million of his own money to defeat Democratic Gov. She has served since Jan 3, 2021. Its important to remember this housing crisis were in right now, this affordability crisis, its actually a very new thing, said Brian Connolly, a lawyer who works in land use policy and has taught at the University of Colorado law school. This combo image shows Democratic candidate for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District Adam Frisch, left, and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., right. Our worldviews couldnt be more different, Neguse said of Boebert during an appearance this week on MSNBC. Jane Fonda in Hanoi, 1972. Jared Polis? [Pols emphasis]. From The Colorado Sun: A host of changes to Colorados gun laws, from a ban on so-called assault weapons to tweaks to the existing red flag law, are already being considered by Democrats at the state Capitol in response to the shooting last month at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs. The analysis for the redistricting commission was based on an average of the results from eight statewide races in the district from 2016 to 2020. If the election were held today, the Democratic congressional candidate in the proposed 2nd District would likely win by 22 percentage points, according to an analysis completed by nonpartisan staff. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (heres a good example). Brown has a remarkable way of guilelessly exposing her partys many contradictions. Gutting IRS Will Help Wealthy Avoid More Taxes | Opinion, Eliminating Income Tax Means More Money for Americans | Opinion. As The Denver Post wrote on Nov. 11, Boebert was her own worst enemy.. Despite visibly not paying attention to the speech, Boebert even had the nerve to post a video on Twitter afterward complaining that she didnt hear Zelensky account for the money that the United States has already sent to help Ukraine in its war effort. Solomon Pena, 39, was arrested Monday evening after SWAT officers took him into custody and served search warrants at his home, police said. Ive met with Leader McCarthy multiple times Im meeting with him again today. Boebert, who barely survived in a district that she should have won by ten points, has no more margin for preventable error. The editorial board ofThe Denver Post literallybegged Colorado voters not to re-elect Boebert. Boebert SHOULD have learned an invaluable lesson from 2022. Colorado Rep-elect Lauren Boebert rose to nominate Florida Republican Rep-elect Byron Donalds on Wednesday, kicking former President Donald Trump in the nuts in the process. And although the GOP saw a number of difficult defeats in the midterm elections, experts say Boebert's tight race was "100% on her.". "Lol No one wants you there," he tweeted. No. . The Colorado Sun has more to discuss in its preview of the upcoming legislative session. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell will speak at the Brookings Institution, where hes expected to set the stage for smaller rate hikes in the coming weeks and months while reinforcing the Feds commitment to taming inflation. Boebert and her creepy BFF Beavis lookalike Matt Gaetz couldnt even bother to feign interest in what was a significant foreign policy moment for the United States: Boebert doesnt seem too interested in the speech pic.twitter.com/grOEaxwtZd. The problem, at the end of the day, is that Lauren Boebert does not know how to change course. It found 65 percent of Americans support continuing to support Ukraine with arms, 66 percent support continuing economic aid and 75 percent favor continuing sanctions on Russia. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has introduced legislation to ban taxpayer-funded abortions for undocumented immigrants, according to a news release. A rising figure in conservative Republican circles, Boebert. Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) June 29, 2022. . 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