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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) came in fifth place in a straw poll of voters in the district where the controversial congresswoman recently relocated and is trying to win reelection to the House.
Boebert, who was first elected to represent Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District in 2020, announced last month she would switch districts and instead run for reelection this year in the 4th District, after its House member, Rep. Ken Buck ®, decided to retire from Congress.
The new district for Boebert would likely give her a significantly better chance at reelection if she wins the Republican nomination. She currently represents a swing district, and Boebert had seemed likely before her switch to face off a second time against Democrat Adam Frisch, whom she defeated in 2022 by fewer than 600 votes.
The 4th District, meanwhile, is a solidly Republican district that has elected a Democratic House member only once in the past 50 years.
But the results of the straw poll Thursday, which followed the first debate among GOP candidates running for that district, indicates Boebert may have an uphill battle.
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Here’s hoping her eventual career with Brazzers pans out as well as her Congressional career.
Congress: A Porn Parody
At this point in US politics … someone could be capable of maintaining both careers at the same time.
It would be more productive than what it was parodying.
more like, reproductive
Now this would be porn I wouldn’t watch
there’s a first for everything
You’re right porn would be too much work for her. Unless she only did handy while vaping porn but that seems really narrow and not something you make a career out of.
Onlyfans site is probably already signed up
There’s a lot better than her pancake face available on Brazzers
You know, I’d watch it, just for the humiliation factor of a fall that hard.
I think that would be more respectable than what she has been doing. It’s just honest sex for money.
Very true, which probably means she can’t do it, because it would require acknowledging sex work as work.
There are easier ways to get erectile dysfunction.
She needs to win over voters one HJ at a time
These guys figured out a more efficient method:
What if I did middle out?
My favorite part was they’re still discussing it and say Richard’s been in there for hours, meaning they’ve been occupied for hours optimizing. 😂
What do I recognize this picture from? Whatever it is I want to rewatch because I remember it being funny but can’t place it.
Silicon Valley. Great show, gotta love Mike Judge.
Honestly, that’s what makes it so relatable to real IT work.
Yeah, they’re so easily distractible during any scene that they’re doing work (unless adderal is in the mix). Then they go off on these weird tangents for far too long. One of my favorite themes in the show.
That’s a lot of tickets to Beetlejuice
“So, how do we do this? Do I just pay you here or after…”
“Nah, you schedule it online using Ticketmaster. We’ll start with a little vaping for foreplay and should be done by intermission.”
“Okaaaaayyyyy…”
“Hey, you’re not a cross-dressing democrat are you? I have to ask cuz I had a bad experience once and my pimp got mad at me.”
The 3rd district in Colorado is not a swing district. It became a swing district because of Boebert. It was pretty red before she showed up.
We also redrew the districts fairly recently, which might have made it more competitive.
It became a swinger district because of Boebert
I think you meant this ^
Cool. Send her to Florida
She’s just not blowing the right people
Okay, Riker is back… but which Riker?
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Hope she finally fucking loses.
I saw Bobert finishes and I was like well “What new musical came to Colorado?”.
Also…what about her date? Did they finish?
She only lets them finish in the back
Oh no. Now who will be in charge of heavy petting during congressional hearings
and the daily dick pick.
or was that the other howler monkey?
I do get them mixed up a lot.
HAHAHAHAHAAHHAAH
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) came in fifth place in a straw poll of voters in the district where the controversial congresswoman recently relocated and is trying to win reelection to the House.
The new district for Boebert would likely give her a significantly better chance at reelection if she wins the Republican nomination.
She currently represents a swing district, and Boebert had seemed likely before her switch to face off a second time against Democrat Adam Frisch, whom she defeated in 2022 by fewer than 600 votes.
But the results of the straw poll Thursday, which followed the first debate among GOP candidates running for that district, indicates Boebert may have an uphill battle.
Colorado Politics reported that Boebert’s finish in the middle of the nine-candidate pack drew some gasps and some shrugs.
Boebert defended her decision to switch districts during the debate, against accusations of carpetbagging, saying she and her family needed a “fresh start.”
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Boebert is ‘exhibit A’ that members of Congress should be required to pass a minimum standardized test of basic civics knowledge prior to candidacy.
Such a test would have undoubtedly prevented Boebert, Greene, Tuberville, and other flotsam/ jetsam non-serious “legislators” from their embarrassing placement.
Yeah it’s tempting to be like “oh it could be a simple test, like name the three branches of government”. But the right wing (and maybe a few assholes from other parts of the spectrum) would inevitably push it towards Jim crow era voting tests.
On the other hand, what if we set these up as a honey pot? Anyone who tries to sabotage the voting test gets disappeared? No, no, that would be ruined too.
Just remember that anytime you think of something to help people, the first thought conservatives have is “how can I use this to hurt my enemies”
in fairness, that’s the first thought a conservative has upon seeing anything
Enemies being literally everyone else on the planet.
What if it was the same test we give people who are applying for citizenship?
That might have the side effect of making citizenship easier to get, which is probably a net positive.
Exactly my thoughts.
We don’t even have to make a new test. Just hold them to the same standard we hold new immigrants to.
OP film yourself taking this test and post the results for us to grade. You have ten minutes, you need a perfect score to pass. This is a very real poll test given to people in Louisiana (at the discretion of poll workers, of course) to determine whether they were allowed to vote.
Sure— but your suggestion is red herringly tangential as it pertains to A CANDIDATE holding office in Congress.
I am not running for office.
Our representatives, however, should (at the bare minimum) understand how government works in my opinion— which was the basis of my post.
my issue isn’t tangential. everyone has the right to vote, and to run for office, absent any criminal history. there’s a reason it’s unconstitutional to do this to voters. I agree with you that candidates should understand how government works, but a test like this absolutely not the way to determine who can and cannot run for office. You know that one politician? That one asshole that you just cannot stand, you dislike them personally, disagree with everything they stand for and think they’re just morally bankrupt? Whatever law you put in place, them or someone even worse than they are will be in charge of enforcing one day.
You’re continuing to conflate two arguments. I am exclusively speaking about candidates.
what I’m saying is that people will do the same thing to pervert the intention of this whether you use it to limit voting rights or who can run for office. they’ll make it an impossible test, they’ll be in charge of who has to take it, and they’ll use it to exclude candidates they dislike. the poll tests are an example of this happening already. it will absolutely also happen if you force candidates to pass a test.
^ NAILED it.
OP: Doesn’t know American history, wants civics literacy test for politicians.
That’s like being mad that my doctor doesn’t have to take a test to be a doctor and then someone saying I should take this test to be a doctor.
I don’t wanna be a doctor but I hope my doctor has the creds to know what the fuck they’re talking about.
Your point is dumb but I still see the problem with requiring politicians to take a test. Lots of potential corruption.
Just because something bad was done in the past doesn’t mean something superficially similar can’t ever be a good idea.
Line maybe a test that’s made in bad faith explicitly to disenfranchise black people isn’t representative of the merits of tests in general. Maybe the problem all don’t want tests, but instead it was having a system completely controlled by the most vile racist people that could be found.
Of course first we’d have to get rid of the current crop of vile racists in charge of most states. It would be more of a protective measure to put in place if the good guys ever gain control.
one of the fundamental problems of legislation is that, whatever law you put into place, eventually the most horrible asshole you can imagine will be in charge of implementing and enforcing it. if you make it so that you need to pass a test in order to run for office, look forward to the opposition party doing their best to game those tests to selectively disqualify their opponents. it’s inevitable in a competitive system like this because people who don’t take every advantage tend to lose to people who do.
looks like it’s back to giving handjobs in public
she’ll probably get a job on fox news or OAN
She never stopped.
Out of… 5?
I read the headline as “Boebart finishes fifth grade”. My reaction was “That’s nice, dear.” in a very condescending manner.
