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'People are sick and tired’: the man challenging far-right extremist Lauren Boebert

www.theguardian.com

‘People are sick and tired’: the man challenging far-right extremist Lauren Boebert

After Boebert’s Beetlejuice embarrassment, Adam Frisch hopes he can wrestle the Colorado congresswoman’s seat from her

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If only they'd put his name in the freaking headline. Give him some easy name recognition...
- https://adamforcolorado.com/
  
  His platform is very lackluster. He’s basically running on not being her. :-/
- It's UK newspaper. Literally none of the readership will know his name.
  
  Imagine thinking that in 2023 an UK newspaper is restricted to only UK readers.
  
  I'm in the US and, surprisingly, I'm seeing it. Weird place. It's like we have this web around the world connecting people. Maybe we could call it the Global Net, or GN for short.
- Gotta leave some bait in the title.
I have relatives in western Colorado. My impression is that folks there are more than a little tired of being "Boebert Country". Being tangled up in Trumpie stuff has not done them any good, and it has saddled them with a stigma that they now have to work their way out of.
- He lost by only about 500 votes. Hopefully he can pull it off.
  
  She was certainly trying to pull it off in that theater
- My impression is that folks there are more than a little tired of being "Boebert Country".
  For what it's worth, she was born in Florida.
  
  Yeah, but she's not quite the Gaetz level of sex offender, so she couldn't get elected there.
Boebert's Beetlejuice Blunder was right there....
- So was boner.
- ... that's... absolutely fantastic
Republicans will always elect the worst possible candidate
- Well that's a generalization that I'm not willing to make. Let's hope that there are enough Republicans in Colorado's 3rd who are tired of boebert to elect a blue dog.
  
  Jesus christ, after everything we've seen since 2016?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Adam Frisch is in his second congressional campaign, crossing and re-crossing Colorado’s third US House district, a space bigger than Pennsylvania.
Boebert, a former restaurant owner and proud grandmother at 36, is the far-right Republican who won the seat in 2020 and has proven relentlessly controversial since – so much so that last year, even in a conservative district, she survived Frisch’s first challenge by the skin of her teeth.
But last month a bigger blaze flared up, when the congresswoman was shown to have behaved outrageously during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice in Denver.
“When I looked at the data a couple of years ago,” Frisch says, “I saw that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs are all kind of a part of that Republican chaos crowd, and I would put [Ilhan] Omar and [Rashida] Tlaib [leftwing Democrats from Minnesota and Michigan] on the other side.
Therefore, while Boebert plays to the cameras in Washington – Frisch hits her for having a “mini television studio in her office, where there are supposed to be benches for constituents to sit before they actually have a chance to talk to the congresswoman” – her opponent continues to tour the battleground.
Colorado district three tilts conservative but Frisch sees a “very libertarian” conservatism which he, an aspirant “Blue Dog” or “Problem Solvers” moderate in Congress, can work with.
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