Congressional elections are just around the corner now, and it seems the state of Colorado’s biggest, most notable newspaper has taken it upon itself to do everything within its power to ensure that this election season doesn’t see another term for the state’s most useless, embarrassing, “hateful” and “cruel” Republican congresswoman.
As the final election of the season closes in on the United States, the editorial board of The Denver Post has released what shaped up to be one of their most brutal, fiery op-eds to date, this time taking aim at none other than highly-controversial Colorado Republican House Representative Lauren Boebert. The massive CO paper calls on its readers to vote against the scandal-ridden, MAGA-loving congresswoman, and the damning new piece comes complete with a laundry list of reasons as to why.
In their op-ed, titled Please, don’t give your vote to Lauren Boebert, the Denver Post editorial board wastes no time in getting right to the point, as the very first line of their piece cuts right to the quick, reading, “We beg voters in western and southern Colorado not to give Rep. Lauren Boebert their vote.”
“Boebert has not represented the 3rd Congressional District well. Almost exclusively, she has spent her time and efforts contributing to the toxic political environment in this nation,” the op-ed blisters.
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The Post editorial board takes things a step further still when they openly draw a stark comparison between Lauren Boebert and the very constituents she is supposed to represent on the Hill:
The good people in this district are not angry and abrasive; they are not hateful and caustic; they do not boast of their own prowess or sling insults as entertainment. The ranchers we know working the Uncompaghre Plateau, the teachers in Durango, the steel mill workers in Pueblo, and the farmers setting down roots in the San Louis Valley keep to themselves, watch their families grow, and pray for better days. Boebert’s unproductive approach, combined with the efforts of others, has helped erode Congress’ ability to honestly debate public policy that could help people in her district.
In her primary, Boebert called a man born and raised in Montrose County a groomer – a term for a gay man who sexually abuses children. The remark, directed at Don Coram, a conservative Republican and rancher whose son happens to be gay, is just one example of Boebert’s casual yet crass cruelty, which she puts on display on a daily basis while in Washington, D.C. Does she feel no remorse for this behavior? She told a joke, more than once, implying that a Muslim member of Congress was a terrorist bomber. She uses the derogatory term ‘jihad squad’ to reference other members of Congress. This is not what Western Colorado or Southern Colorado stands for.”
The editorial board makes it clear that this election is no longer a matter of opinion or politics, but rather the difference in safety and true danger in this country. They zeroed in on Boebert’s support for the “Three Percenters” militia group, explaining to readers who this group of people truly are:
The group draws its names from the fable that only 3% of the population of the original colonies fought in the Revolutionary War and the misguided belief that this country is headed for another fight for liberation for which they must prepare to fight – often amassing weapons caches and making bombs. Members of the group have been implicated in several violent plots – a planned bombing of a mosque in Minnesota, an FBI-foiled bombing attempt of a bank in Oklahoma, and the kidnapping plot of Michigan’s governor. And, of course, the Jan. 6, 2020, attempt to storm the U.S. Capitol and prevent Congress from seating the duly elected next president of the United States.”
But the most gut-wrenching moment to come from the Denver Post op-ed was when the subject of the piece turned to January 6th, 2021.
On Jan. 6, Boebert tweeted out: ‘Today is 1776.’ Was it a reference to the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4 of that year and the hope for a peaceful transfer of power under the laws and requirements of the Constitution written in 1787, or was it a reference to the bloodshed of the Revolutionary War and hope that an attack on the Capitol could bring in a new form of government for this nation? We don’t like that we have serious doubts it was the former.”
The editorial board’s blistering op-ed came to a close as they wrote that they truly “grieve” the fact that Lauren Boebert is representing the state of Colorado from Congress.
“Rejecting all Boebert has come to represent – angry rants without offering real solutions — is important for the 3rd Congressional District, Colorado and this great nation,” the op-ed reads, as the paper’s editorial board confirms their proud endorsement of Lauren Boebert’s Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch. “Frisch is a solid candidate who will stand in for the district in an honorable way.”
Read the full op-ed from the Denver Post editorial board here.
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