After state Sen. Don Coram formally entered the Republican CD-3 primary to challenge compounding calamity freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert, the congresswoman from Altamont Springs, Florida via Rifle volleyed back with a trademark broadside of adjective-laden vitriol, denouncing Coram as a “super-woke social liberal”–to which Coram disarmingly responded, “I have no idea what that means.”
Boebert’s rhetoric is always dialed up to 11, so distinguishing between the usual bluster and a strategic interest on Boebert’s part isn’t easy. But yesterday, we got the first real sign of how Boebert intends to handle her first primary as an incumbent–and Boebert wants to make this primary all about Don Coram:
So, first of all, we had to do some searching to find a single reference in the Durango Herald in 2017 to a letter requesting an investigation of Sen. Coram over his support for pro-commercial hemp legislation. It doesn’t look like the matter went any further, because the legislation Coram supported didn’t single out Coram’s hemp business in any way.
Also, in case you’re one of the few people in Colorado who still doesn’t know this, hemp doesn’t get you high. The giggle-snorting about hemp in this ad is clearly meant to make the listener believe otherwise.
With that established, the hypocrisy of Rep. Boebert impugning Sen. Coram’s ethics over laws to benefit commercial hemp production, while Boebert herself sits on the House Natural Resources Committee and her husband is questionably paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year by one of the Western Slope’s biggest fossil fuel drilling companies, is nothing short of head-exploding. Boebert’s brazen hypocrisy, so audacious that it momentarily stuns, is another signature tactic that we took note of before she had a primary opponent.
Boebert caught her 2020 Republican opponent Scott Tipton napping, but then underperformed in the general election versus Tipton’s easy 2018 victory. By going recklessly negative early against Don Coram, Boebert is signaling her own weakness.
You don’t do this unless you’re nervous.
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anyone but a republican…HELP US IN CD 3…
Oh My God Not the Horrible HempaSaurus!
(Not sustainable crops, multiple uses, economy-boosting, epilepsy calming, nonaddictive Hemp!)
You mean to tell me that after an entire year in Congress there’s still no one who’s paying her hubby to be a hemp consultant? . . .
. . . How in the hell did Team Boebert miss that
griftopportunity?Up in smoke. Gunsmoke that is.
That ad was so cheesy, I would check her investments in the dairy industry
It's cheesy and just pretty dumb. Don Coram is pushing drugs ! So, so stupid on its face.
Cue Steppenwolf's "The Pusher!" And I'd guess anyone who wants to push back on the ad could call it "anti-(pick one) rural economy, rural jobs, rural entrepreneurs, fairness for a legal rural crop, etc." Why is she perpetuating the War on Rural Colorado?
This one has Fluffy’s fingerprints all over it. He’s been butthurt since we passed Amendment 64 in 2012.
Fluffy does have the Reefer Madness movie running on an eternal loop inside his vacuous head.
His beloved Israel is a world leader in hemp and cannabis research (and product creation).
Don't tell Jeff Hunt & The Centennial Institute. But Israel is also among the world leaders in protecting abortion rights for women.
…and they have a robust universal health care system that’s something of a hybrid between ObamaCare and the Canadian system. Private insurers with a public option for those who want it.
A whole lotta Republicans use hemp products. Boebert's lame response will go nowhere.
Who’s gonna tell GED Barbie that hemp oil was used in the Old Testament as one of the ingredients in Holy Anointing Oil??? Hell, it’s probably even a cure for what ails ya after you consume one of her pork sliders.
Her idiot media consultant (moonlighting) Fluffy clearly has too much time on his hands.
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Shh. Don't tell her she's going ass-backwards.
I don't particularly care much about hemp. Legalization of actual pot is very, very popular with particular voting groups who don't tend to be politically active. In other words, it's a perfect wedge issue to use against Republican by turning out younger voters.
In Texas, Beto is using legalization of pot as a signature issue. That and a couple other topics will help him: abortion rights, energy grid resiliance, and Obamacare $$$ from the US government.
They call a dead women a bitch…
I’ll bet she thinks that’s the worst thing she can say about Coram. She thinks she can sandbag him with one ad tying him to the Devil’s weed. She might want to (actually) talk to some of her constituents who are growing acres of the stuff as a cash crop and to enrich the soil.
Qbert needs to get photos of Coram's grandkids watching Sesame Street and then she would have a knockout issue.
Commies Everywhere!
A significant portion of her CO-3 constituency voted FOR Amendment 64 including populous counties like Pueblo, La Plata and even her home county Garfield (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Colorado_Amendment_64). Hemp/Cannabis is a major industry in Pueblo and the San Luis Valley.
Boebert acts like she is only representing like the hardcore conservatives in Mesa County and that's it. But Pueblo County has more people and I'm willing to bet if they feel like one of their growing economic sectors is under attack, they will come out against Boebert.