‘Blatant Self-Preservation’: Lauren Boebert Slammed for Decision to Switch Districts
Republican plans to run on the other side of Colorado
Rep Lauren Boebert’s decision to run next year in a congressional district clear on the other side of Colorado is nothing but naked self-interest, according to critics.
The far-right Republican congresswoman announced this week that she would not run for reelection in the 3rd Congressional District she calls home — and has represented in Congress for three years.
Rather, she plans to avoid a perilous rematch with the Democrat who nearly beat her in 2022 by running instead for the 4th Congressional District on other side of Colorado.
It's a decision for which Boebert — who was ejected from a Denver theater in September after she was seen vaping and publicly groping her then-boyfriend — is coming under fire.
“I think Lauren Boebert’s actions are blatant self-preservation,” said Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state. “She knows that she has failed the citizens of her district. She has failed to deliver Coloradans on the western slope, on issues that matter to them. She has failed to deliver legislatively. There is scandal after scandal after scandal.
“So I do think this is her trying to hold on to power and ultimately, we will see how the primary plays out in this new district, which by the way, is literally on the opposite side of the state from where she currently serves as congresswoman,” Griswold added.
Boebert's current district largely covers the swath of the western side of Colorado but she wants next year to, instead, run for the 4th District, which runs the eastern length of the state bordering Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Republican Rep Ken Buck currently represents that district but has announced that he is not running for reelection next year.
It's legal for Boebert to run in a district in which she doesn't live as long as she resides in the state.
However, she must compete in a crowded primary election to win the Republican nomination for the 4th District.
California congresswoman, Maxine Waters, also criticized Boebert, saying that Boebert won't get elected in the 4th District.
“She was caught publicly vaping are not only was she doing that, she was being groped, she was being felt on by the boyfriend. Now this a representative of the United States of America who has the audacity to talk about caring about children and education and families,” said Waters, a Democrat. “Even if she goes to a new district that is more conservative, I think those conservative [residents] of that district will understand that this is not someone that they want to serve as a representative of them because of what she has transporting to their children.”
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