Boebert had switched districts after Buck announced his impending retirement to avoid a stiff challenge from Democrat Adam Frisch in the 3rd district, but Buck’s immediate departure will set up a special election in which the state Republican and Democratic parties will choose a nominee – and there’s no guarantee they’ll pick the controversial Boebert.
Further complicating matters, Boebert would have to resign her seat in the 3rd district to run in that special election because Colorado law prohibits a candidate from running for more than one office at a time, and her resignation would set up yet another U.S. House special election before the end of the year.
Sounds like the guy who was retiring wanted to go out in a way that screwed over Bobo the worst.
It’s just my speculation but I think it was the shit show from the GOP at the SOTU. He had already announced his retirement in November but suddenly changed it to next week after the event. He then made statements about the party having no decorum. I believe he was already done but that was the last straw.
Fucking mind boggling that there is any possible last straw after so many years of Donald.
Because it was never about decorum or dignity or honorable governance, not really.
It was about gambling that Trump would give them the power they wanted.
He didn’t, they lost that gamble, and the longer they hang on to it, the worse it gets for them. Ken Buck isn’t quitting because things finally crossed a line of dignity, he’s quitting because it’s become clear to him that no amount of effort can save this shit show. Might as well do something else.
My guess would be MGT all in red and acting trashy.
I think one of the funniest lines in that SNL sketch this weekend was when Biden says “thanks for dressing up tonight”.
I sure wish the real Biden had said that to her when that harpy was screeching at him.
I highly doubt he put (or was capable of putting) that much thought into it.
I choose to see it as “sometimes the universe has a funny way of working things out”
He might have been forced out to encourage a “rising star” to proceed.
That was how wannabe dictator Stephen Harper and his Reform party were done in in 2015 in Canada. They tried to run the old, sane conservatives out of their strongholds in the Maritimes.