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Colorado lawmakers square off, come under attack as debt ceiling battle intensifies | TRAIL MIX
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/columnists/colorado-lawmakers-square-off-come-under-attack-as-debt-ceiling-battle-intensifies-trail-mix/article_0e29a97e-ea9e-11ed-9d69-37b37839da22.html
A year and a half before the 2024 election, opponents unloaded scathing ad campaigns aimed at the two most vulnerable Colorado House members, U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert and Yadira Caraveo. The attacks are the latest eruption in the state in an escalating battle over congressional legislation to raise the federal government’s debt limit, with Democrats and Republicans blaming each other for pushing the nation to the brink of an unprecedented, disastrous default the Biden administration is warning could be imminent as soon as the end of the month. Boebert, a Rifle Republican serving her second term, and Caraveo, a Thornton Democrat serving her first term, each won election in November by slim margins and have landed on the opposing parties’ target lists.
RELATED: White House touts illusory ‘VA cuts’ as GOP ducks budget specifics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/04/white-house-touts-illusory-va-cuts-gop-ducks-budget-specifics/
Exclusive: Lauren Boebert Accused of Illegally Spending $60k on Campaign
https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-fec-complaint-gotv-1798402
Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert has been accused of illegally spending $60,000 on campaign calls and texts in the run-up to November’s midterm election. End Citizens United has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging the Republican’s political action committee spent tens of thousands of dollars on so-called “get out the vote” contact calls and texts that were not reported accurately. According to the FEC filing, seen exclusively by Newsweek, Boebert, her campaign Lauren Boebert For Colorado, We The People Leadership PAC and Taylor Moose, her PAC and campaign treasurer, are accused of failing to accurately report communications as independent expenditures or in-kind contributions on their reports filed with the Commission.
RELATED: Lauren Boebert is being accused of illegal campaign spending and using her own leadership PAC ‘as a personal bank’
https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-accused-illegal-campaign-spending-2023-5
Lauren Boebert Poses with T-Shirt Calling AR-15 ‘Cordless Hole Puncher’ on Same Day as Tx. Mass Shooting
https://people.com/politics/lauren-boebert-poses-t-shirt-calling-ar-15-cordless-hole-puncher/
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert is being criticized after sharing photos taken at a gun range just hours after five people, including a 9-year-old child, were fatally shot in Texas by a suspect with an assault weapon. One of the photos shows Boebert holding up a shirt that reads: “Since we’re redefining everything, this is a cordless hole puncher,” next to an illustration of an assault weapon. “Thank you, Montrose! It was great to join you at the San Juan Shooting Range,” the Colorado congresswoman wrote on Twitter Saturday, beneath a series of photos taken at the facility.
Congresswoman Boebert’s ‘Trust the Science’ bill passes House committee
https://www.nbc11news.com/2023/04/29/congresswoman-boeberts-trust-science-bill-passes-house-committee/
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s bill to delist the gray wolf population passed the House committee. The Trust the Science Act passed the House committee with a 21-16 vote. The bill delisted gray wolves as being a part of the endangered species list. Removing gray wolves from the endangered species list would give local governments more control over how to deal with the population. Currently the gray wolf population is untouchable-once a species is on the endangered list they don’t come off of it without the help of new laws.
Rep. Boebert in Monte Vista: ‘A line in the sand’
https://alamosanews.com/article/rep-boebert-in-monte-vista-a-line-in-the-sand
The congresswoman addressed transgender individuals, saying she was “very inspired that the country would come back from this” because, in looking at the crowd, “there is not one man that I see whose lips are the same color of red as mine and wearing a dress and heels, and that must mean they are not serving Bud Light,” referencing the backlash against Bud Light for featuring Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender actress, and influencer in an ad on social media. That drew a big laugh from the crowd. “We have folks who are trying to censor you, take away your free speech, and now we see Dylan Mulvaney saying it should be illegal to call him a man. Well, sir, your 5 o’clock shadow says otherwise,” she continued.
Lauren Boebert rages at the US Navy for supporting drag queen sailor
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/lauren-boebert-rages-at-the-us-navy-for-supporting-drag-queen-sailor/
Stephen King Has 1 Simple Demand For Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/stephen-king-has-1-simple-demand-for-lauren-boebert-marjorie-taylor-greene/ar-AA1aJ2uA
Republicans unleash effort making it easier to fire federal bureaucrats
https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/republicans-unleash-effort-making-it-easier-to-fire-federal-bureaucrats/
Boebert bill seeks to speed up county purchase of federal parcel
https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/boebert-bill-seeks-to-speed-up-county-purchase-of-federal-parcel/article_27548f1c-e847-11ed-bbe5-ab1798c9a570.html
Military spouse finally secures medical records months after petitioning the VA
https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/military-spouse-finally-secures-medical-records-after-months-of-petitioning-the-va
Conservation momentum surges for southwest Colorado’s Dolores River as record flows draw rafters
https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/01/dolores-river-conservation-flows/
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert talks energy, bills and birds in Pueblo
https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2023/05/04/what-congresswoman-lauren-boebert-did-on-a-recent-trip-to-pueblo/70180894007/
RELATED: Rep. Lauren Boebert tours 3 sites in Pueblo on Tuesday
https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2023/05/04/what-congresswoman-lauren-boebert-did-on-a-recent-trip-to-pueblo/70180894007/
RELATED: Bennet, Hickenlooper, Boebert work on Pueblo Chemical Depot site
https://www.chieftain.com/story/business/2023/05/01/bennet-hickenlooper-boebert-work-on-pueblo-chemical-depot-site-future/70160125007/
RELATED: Lauren Boebert’s Highly Questionable ‘Lipstick’ Photo Is Fooling No One, And The Same Question Keeps Popping Up
https://uproxx.com/viral/lauren-boebert-lipstick-skirt-wtf/
Trans lawmaker Brianna Titone tried not to stand out. Then a gunman killed 5 at Club Q.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/05/05/colorado-brianna-titone-trans-issues/
Titone won a third term in 2022 by more than 8,000 votes, but she knew her success had coincided with a dark chapter for trans people. Over the previous two years, conservative lawmakers had introduced about 280 anti-trans bills nationwide. (In 2023, they would file more than 400.) Colorado hadn’t passed any anti-LGBTQ bills, but one of its representatives in the federal house, Lauren Boebert (R), regularly criticized drag queens, and she called trans women “groomers” and “transvestites.” Titone told herself to keep reaching out to Republicans, but three weeks after the 2022 election, a gunman killed five people at a Colorado Springs gay bar.
“Good riddance”: GOP lawmakers’ private glee at Tucker Carlson firing
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/04/tucker-carlson-ukraine-fox-news-republicans
RELATED: Republicans Tucker Carlson Dissed Insist the Fox Host Wasn’t Actually That Important
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/republicans-tucker-carlson-dissed-insist-the-fox-host-wasnt-actually-that-important
Lauren Boebert’s Son Allowed to Appear in Court Virtually Despite Bench Warrant for Prior No-Show
https://www.westword.com/news/lauren-boebert-son-virtual-court-appearance-bench-warrant-no-show-16747454