{"id":49727,"date":"2020-12-23T14:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boebert-appoints-outgoing-trump-gardner-staff\/"},"modified":"2020-12-23T21:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:50:40","slug":"boebert-appoints-outgoing-trump-gardner-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boebert-appoints-outgoing-trump-gardner-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Boebert appoints outgoing Trump, Gardner staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- Missing image mapping. {\"id\":389209,\"url\":\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/storyimage\/CJ\/20201223\/NEWS01\/201229977\/AR\/0\/AR-201229977.jpg\",\"caption_title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Lauren Boebert, who will represent Coloradou0026#x2019;s 3rd Congressional District, has hired staff from the Trump administration.\",\"article_id\":197099,\"factbox_id\":null,\"photo_byline\":\"Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald\",\"alt_text\":null,\"orientation_landscape\":true,\"in_article\":false,\"is_square\":false,\"gallery_id\":null,\"created_at\":\"2020-12-23T14:50:43.000-07:00\",\"updated_at\":\"2020-12-23T14:50:43.000-07:00\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1150,\"order\":0,\"photo_sales\":false,\"special_report_id\":null,\"durango_coupon_id\":null,\"guid\":null,\"naviga_url\":null} --><\/p>\n<p>GRAND JUNCTION \u2013 Congresswoman-elect Lauren Boebert of Colorado has appointed Trump administration officials and staff members for outgoing Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner to top positions in her office.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Small, current senior adviser to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, will be Boebert\u2019s chief of staff, the<em> Daily Sentinel <\/em>reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Paige Agostin will be Boebert\u2019s legislative director. She is currently associate director of domestic policy in Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s office. Clarice Navarro, who was appointed by the Trump administration to be Colorado executive director for the Department of Agriculture\u2019s Farm Service Agency, has been selected as Boebert\u2019s district director.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Goldey, who is currently press secretary for the Interior Department, will serve as Boebert\u2019s communications director.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy Garcia will serve as Boebert\u2019s southern Colorado regional director. She has held the same position with Gardner since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert will represent the state\u2019s 3rd Congressional District after beating incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primaries and Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adviser to Interior Secretary Bernhardt is chief of staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49727"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}