{"id":42930,"date":"2021-12-31T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lauren-boebert-announces-she-will-run-for-second-term-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2022-01-01T01:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T01:13:40","slug":"lauren-boebert-announces-she-will-run-for-second-term-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lauren-boebert-announces-she-will-run-for-second-term-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Boebert announces she will run for second term in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Congresswoman
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert holds an end-of-year press conference at the Home Loan Bank community room in Grand Junction on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (McKenzie Lange\/Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via Colorado Sun)<\/span>McKenzie Lange\/Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

GRAND JUNCTION \u2014 Far-right conservative firebrand Lauren Boebert announced Friday morning from the basement of a bank in Grand Junction that she is seeking a second term representing Colorado\u2019s 3rd Congressional District.<\/p>\n

In an appearance that was toned down relative to a recent performance at a Turning Point USA conference where she strutted across a stage and shouted about \u201cchild-sniffing\u201d and \u201cParmesan-smoking\u201d liberals, Boebert made her announcement standing behind a table and reading from a binder of notes in front of a dozen members of the media.<\/p>\n

There was no gun strapped to her thigh as there had been at all appearances in the early days of her initial campaign for the congressional seat that represents a huge swath of Colorado that takes in the Western Slope and sweeps east to Pueblo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will continue to be a fearless conservative who fights for freedom,\u201d she vowed at the end of her 16-minute announcement that began with a reminder to pray for victims of Thursday\u2019s fires near Boulder and pivoted quickly into a blast at the \u201cfar-left taking a wrecking ball to our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boebert repeatedly disparaged what she called \u201cwoke\u201d Democrats and liberals and \u201cwoke\u201d policies. She referred to \u201cwokeism\u201d in the military and in \u201cunconstitutional vaccine mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boebert touted her credentials with the far-right House Freedom Caucus and, without mentioning former President Donald Trump, vowed to continue fighting for some of his signature policies, including building a wall on the southern border to stop a purported flow of drugs and sex traffickers and stopping amnesty programs for \u201cillegal aliens,\u201d including people from Afghanistan who are being repatriated in communities across the country after seeking asylum.<\/p>\n

Boebert also did not mention a potential challenger who is expected to announce his candidacy early in January \u2013 state Sen. Don Coram, a Montrose Republican who is known for working across the aisle in his 11 years serving in the Colorado Legislature.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m certainly not a good old boy who goes along to get along,\u201d she said in a thinly veiled reference to Coram\u2019s style of politics.<\/p>\n

Boebert repeatedly leafed through her binder as she answered fielded questions from the media.<\/p>\n

She laughed when asked about her position on rioters attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. She explained she was laughing about the characterization of the event as an insurrection and called the House investigation of the event a \u201csham witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her answer veered away from the Jan. 6 attack and into the Democrats\u2019 investigation of a purported Russian connection to Trump\u2019s campaign and to her vote to not certify President Joe Biden\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey illegally mailed out hundreds of thousands of ballots right in our faces,\u201d she said before the brief press conference was cut off by an aide.<\/p>\n

A single protester stood outside the Home Loan State Bank in falling snow, holding a sign that read \u201ctraitor.\u201d Sign-holder Ricki Howie said she was disappointed that Boebert left by a back entrance and didn\u2019t see her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy can\u2019t she face the public?\u201d Howie asked.<\/p>\n

The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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