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April 27, 2023 02:30 PM UTC

Once Again, Lauren Boebert: You Voted AGAINST That

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) is known for a few things, none of which relate to her actual title as a Member of Congress.

As we saw from the latest polling via the The Rocky Mountaineer, voters in Boebert’s Congressional district (CO-03) primarily know her for one of two things: 1) Defending Donald Trump, and 2) Promoting herself on social media. “Being a Congressperson who actually does the job” is not a trait that people generally associate with Boebert.

Boebert may not do anything useful in Congress, but she would sure like you to think otherwise. In fact, Boebert should really be known for a third reson: 3) Taking credit for things she actually opposed.

This has been a common occurrence for Boebert. It begins when Boebert votes against a thing in Congress, which she does mostly so that she can stick her tongue out on Twitter as proof that she is the most conservative conservative who ever conservatived. Said “thing” often ends up passing anyway (particularly when Democrats were in the majority). Later, when the “thing” is implemented and turns out to be pretty helpful to local communities in Colorado and CO-03, Boebert jumps up and down and says, “Your welcome” (in the picture in our mind, she does not use the correct punctuation).

It happened again recently, as Anna Lynn Winfrey reports for The Pueblo Chieftain:

Boebert’s office recently issued a press release to celebrate a $5.1 million grant for Pueblo Community Health Center, but Boebert voted against the bill funding it because of what the release called “Democrat poison pills” in the legislation.

Most congressional Republicans voted no on the 2023 appropriations act. The grant was secured during the appropriations process in a bill approved by Congress in December 2022.

In an interview with the Chieftain, Boebert said the final bill was over a thousand pages and included “amendments that were not germane.”

“There was a lot of things in those pieces of legislation that I couldn’t bring myself to vote for,” Boebert said. “One of them had a $200 million earmark for the Presidio (park) in San Francisco, there was salmon recovery, there was a butterfly recovery — just all of this nonsense stuff, when we have to get our country back on track. It was just a lot of wasteful spending.”

Now, it’s completely fine for Boebert to oppose legislation because she doesn’t like something (or anything) included in the text. That’s what Boebert did when she voted ‘NO’ on the 2023 Appropriations bill (HR 2617) on Dec. 23, 2022.

But if Boebert is going to do that, then she can’t also do this:

 

From Rep. Lauren Boebert’s newsletter to constituents (April 2023)

 

In an email to constituents, Boebert writes, “I helped secure a $5,109,735.00 grant for Pueblo Community Health Center.”

By voting against the bill that funded the grant???

The Pueblo Community Health Center will use the $5.1 million grant to help provide health care services for anyone in need, regardless of an ability to pay. In responding to the Chieftain, the CEO of the Center, Donald Moore, was considerably more statesmanlike than his own Member of Congress:

Moore said PCHC was not directly contacted by Boebert’s staff about the appropriation request but that the center is appreciative of the grant. [Pols emphasis]

“We are grateful for whatever steps Rep. Boebert took directly or indirectly to secure (the funding),” Moore wrote to the Chieftain. “We need as many members of Congress as possible to be proud of their advocacy for community health center funding.”

The TL;DR version of Moore’s comment is basically: If Boebert did something helpful, that’s cool. 

Boebert knows that the best chance she has of winning re-election in 2024 is to spend her time doing useful things for her constituents rather than Tweeting inane nonsense. But Boebert really likes inane nonsense. Also, Tweeting is fun and easy, and doing actual work requires, well…actual work.

So, instead, Boebert is just going to skip the policy and the voting stuff and jump ahead to the “taking credit for this nice thing” stage of the legislative process. Whether she had anything to do with it or not.

This makes Boebert look like a YUGE hypocrite, but let’s be honest: She doesn’t care about any of that. Boebert just hopes that the number of voters who think she is a hypocrite is smaller than the number of voters who thinks she did a helpful thing.

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    2. Boebert’s commitment to operations being “on track” seems a bit questionable, too.

      The most recent estimate I saw of the Republican Budget Plan that Boebert and 216 other Republicans voted for whacks away at federal safety for railroad track.

      The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on Wednesday said a Republican budget cut proposal would shut down 375 federally-staffed and contract-run air traffic control towers around the country and result in 7,500 fewer rail safety inspection days.

      Overall, it said the Republican plan, which would sharply reduce budget spending in exchange for a short-term increase in the debt ceiling, would reduce funding for U.S. transit and highway infrastructure projects by nearly $5.2 billion.

      US Dept of Transportation put out a press release that had breakdowns for each state.  Colorado’s is here:

      • Cut 110 Rail Safety Inspections in Colorado. At a time when train derailments are wreaking havoc on community safety, House Republicans’ proposal would lead to 110 fewer rail safety inspection days and 760 fewer miles of track inspected in Colorado next year alone. Since the Norfolk Southern train derailment, bipartisan Senators have called for more rail inspections, not fewer.   
      • Jeopardize Air Safety and Increase Airport Security Wait Times. The proposal would shut down services at 3 Contract Air Traffic Control Towers in Colorado, likely also require shut down of additional Federally-staffed facilities, and increase wait times at TSA security check points at large airports across the country by over 2 hours. 

      The 3 Contract Air Traffic Control Towers in Colorado — Grand Junction Regional Airport, Eagle County Regional Airport, Front Range Airport

       

        1. She has few equals in her role as #UsefulIdiot. Who’ going to break the news to her on Chief Justice Robert’s wife? It’s sad just how hard she has to work just to keep up with three-toes.

          Boebert Puts Biden On Blast: ‘You’re Known For Sniffing Little Girls’ Hair’

          It’s gives me a big belly laugh that Dinesh D’Souza is a “Stakeholder / Influencer / Content Ops” with this “newsletter”  (I’ll use Don Jr’s air quotes).

          Dinesh helps to oversee the company’s overall direction and daily decisions. Provides strategic guidance and oversight regarding the publication of content, coordinating with staff, and assisting with managerial decisions.
          Bestselling author, filmmaker, speaker, and host of the Dinesh D’Souza Podcast. An immigrant from India, Dinesh was a policy analyst in the Reagan White House and later served at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution. Dinesh graduated phi beta kappa from Dartmouth College.

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      Did I miss something? 

      Do you suppose she really can't see the irony and her hypocrisy? Is it just a dim wit or does she understand and just not care?

      Sheeesh..

      1. Hypocrisy, which she understands and doesn’t care.  She knows she almost got returned to the life she “put on hold” this past November.  So now she’s got to try to present herself as doing something more for her district than being just their ever petulant foot-stamping kewpie.

        It’s now time for image-building lies to her rubes or go back to flipping government-cheese burgers and sliders, tax avoiding, and give up hubby’s “consulting” windfall — easy choice really for someone completely without thought, intelligence, morals, or any constructive skills for making a life.

        It’s an old story: Once those high school dropout kids of professional wrestlers and teenage mothers have seen the chintzy gilding and Big-Macs-served-on-plates of Mar-a-Lago, how you gonna’ keep ’em down on the lanes of the Rifle bowling alley?

        Look to the biggest nearby liar you know for that sage and predictable assisting political counsel.  (I wonder if she can spell f-l-u-f-f-y?)

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