After Boebert’s Beetlejuice embarrassment, Adam Frisch hopes he can wrestle the Colorado congresswoman’s seat from her

  • @negativeyoda
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    1331 year ago

    If only they’d put his name in the freaking headline. Give him some easy name recognition…

      • Maeve
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        201 year ago

        His platform is very lackluster. He’s basically running on not being her. :-/

        • FuglyDuck
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          Interesting … because let’s be honest, that’s pretty much enough reason for most people to vote for him

        • @n0m4n
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          71 year ago

          When your opponent is making a series of bad decisions, that is enough. People really are sick and tired of the blatant BS.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’ve looked at the republican candidates in my local elections the last few years and that’s pretty much the entirety of their platforms. Most of their websites literally listed zero platform at all, it’s annoying as hell

            • TheHiddenCatboy
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              91 year ago

              I’m reading the document provided by killeeronthecorner. This is what I see:

              • He will fight for Western Colorado water rights.
              • He will push for an ‘all of the above’ energy plan which likely includes solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and petrochemical.
              • He will push for farmer-friendly policies, which ties to the above plus opposing ‘bad’ regulations and opening markets.
              • He will take actions in support of small businesses.
              • Opposing ‘bad’ regulations, again.
              • Job Training.
              • Upgrade (presumably power and internet) infrastructure
              • He will tackle inflation (albeit without a good plan on how to deal with the current causes of inflation…)
              • He is pro-choice.
              • He is pro-environmentalism.

              He’s definitely a blue-dog Democrat, more conservative than I’d like, but this is CO-03 we’re talking about. You’re NOT going to get a progressive firebrand to represent that district. You’re going to get somebody who is on the Conservative end of the spectrum. Getting a Pro-Choice Moderate Democrat who is in any way open to Green policies in the district that includes Farmers and Oil Men and places like Rifle would be a godsend, considering the person who CURRENTLY represents CO-03 is rabidly anti-choice and quite interested in pushing radical MAGA policies. You get what you can take out of a place like CO-03.

              • Maeve
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                11 year ago

                I mean, I think we’re too late to prevent global environmental catastrophe, but we should try hard. Otoh, I understand you.

            • @DiatomeceousGirth
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              71 year ago

              He’s a former banker who lives in Aspen. Of course he has no strong opinions other than maintain status quo.

          • @SalamendaciousOP
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            11 year ago

            How very dare you brings facts to this discussion!

        • _justforfun_
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          51 year ago

          It’s just about good enough for me, but I don’t live there.

          • Maeve
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            And they thought MAD was a good* deterrent. :-/

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    • HeartyBeast
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      101 year ago

      It’s UK newspaper. Literally none of the readership will know his name.

        • HeartyBeast
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          Imagine thinking that just because a paper is available on the web, the editorial style isn’t dictated by its domestic audience.

          I expect you will also be shocked that when they reference ‘The Prime Minister’ they quite often don’t even bother to reference which country’s prime minister they are taking about. Shocking, eh?

      • Cethin
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        31 year ago

        I’m in the US and, surprisingly, I’m seeing it. Weird place. It’s like we have this web around the world connecting people. Maybe we could call it the Global Net, or GN for short.

        • HeartyBeast
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          Yes, I sort of guess led you were American. I think the giveaway is the assumption that everyone globally should know the the minutiae of American domestic politics, and the shock that minor political figures might not be known by name.

          • Cethin
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            41 year ago

            Sure, but if you’re writting an article on them you at least think it’s important enough to write an article on them. I don’t think anyone outside of the US, or even outside Colorado, should care about this, but the author here did. If it’s that important to them, the least they could do is include the name in the headline. Either that or it isn’t important and both the creation of this article, as well as the posting of it, was a complete waste of time. Idk which one it is.

            • HeartyBeast
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              No. Because the purpose of the article is to bring the person to the reader’s attention for the first time. It is ‘here is this person who is new to you, who has doing something interesting’.

              They might come out of the article knowing the person’s name, but they are not going into it that way, so leading on the name would be a failure of a headline

    • TWeaK
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      41 year ago

      Gotta leave some bait in the title.

  • @fubo
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    611 year ago

    I have relatives in western Colorado. My impression is that folks there are more than a little tired of being “Boebert Country”. Being tangled up in Trumpie stuff has not done them any good, and it has saddled them with a stigma that they now have to work their way out of.

  • @TheJims
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    211 year ago

    Republicans will always elect the worst possible candidate

    • @SalamendaciousOP
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      41 year ago

      Well that’s a generalization that I’m not willing to make. Let’s hope that there are enough Republicans in Colorado’s 3rd who are tired of boebert to elect a blue dog.

      • @Nudding
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        121 year ago

        Jesus christ, after everything we’ve seen since 2016?

        • @SalamendaciousOP
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          61 year ago

          My point is I’m hoping Republican voters won’t elect “the worst possible candidate” and replace boebert with Adam Frisch because he can’t win with just registered Democrats.

          • @Nudding
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            41 year ago

            As an outsider looking in, I wouldn’t bet on it.

            • @SalamendaciousOP
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              61 year ago

              He only lost by about 500 votes two years ago. I’m hopeful. Even if it’s just because I don’t see any point in being pessimistic and apathetic.

              • @Nudding
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                11 year ago

                Sometimes you have to be a realist and plan for the worst. False optimism is a fools drink.

                • @SalamendaciousOP
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                  41 year ago

                  Well like I said he lost by about 500 votes two years ago. He’s also out raising her right now. Both of these facts lead me to believe he has a chance. Why do you think he doesn’t?

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    71 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Adam Frisch is in his second congressional campaign, crossing and re-crossing Colorado’s third US House district, a space bigger than Pennsylvania.

    Boebert, a former restaurant owner and proud grandmother at 36, is the far-right Republican who won the seat in 2020 and has proven relentlessly controversial since – so much so that last year, even in a conservative district, she survived Frisch’s first challenge by the skin of her teeth.

    But last month a bigger blaze flared up, when the congresswoman was shown to have behaved outrageously during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice in Denver.

    “When I looked at the data a couple of years ago,” Frisch says, “I saw that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs are all kind of a part of that Republican chaos crowd, and I would put [Ilhan] Omar and [Rashida] Tlaib [leftwing Democrats from Minnesota and Michigan] on the other side.

    Therefore, while Boebert plays to the cameras in Washington – Frisch hits her for having a “mini television studio in her office, where there are supposed to be benches for constituents to sit before they actually have a chance to talk to the congresswoman” – her opponent continues to tour the battleground.

    Colorado district three tilts conservative but Frisch sees a “very libertarian” conservatism which he, an aspirant “Blue Dog” or “Problem Solvers” moderate in Congress, can work with.


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