There has been more fantastically overblown rhetoric from congressional candidate Lauren Boebert. We should all be getting used to it by now.
Boebert did not win the top line on the June 30 primary ballot by somehow beating incumbent Congressman Scott Tipton in a typical election of the Republican 3rd Congressional District Assembly. Far from it!
Boebert won the 3rd CD Assembly by being the only name on the electronic ballot. In the final tally, she received only 55% of all the votes cast.
Tipton, who earlier petitioned onto the 2020 Republican Primary ballot, did not participate in the Assembly so his name was not even listed on the digital ballot. So, frustrated with only Boebert as an option, many Republican Assembly delegates simply chose to write in Tipton for a score of 43.6% of the total votes cast.
Per GOP bylaws, whoever wins the Republican 3rd Assembly with the most votes earns first name position on the 2020 primary ballot. Anyone who chooses to petition onto this June 30 ballot has their names placed below the winner of the Republican 3rd CD Assembly.
Boebert’s outlandish portrayal of somehow having beaten Tipton in a fair contest is simply not the truth and just more of what we continue hearing from a candidate who either has no clue or is deliberately misleading Colorado voters.
Becky GremillionGlenwood Springs
