Posted on 01/08/2023 12:20:38 PM PST by kiryandil
RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Debbie Hartman voted for Lauren Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in 2022, delighted by Boebert’s unequivocal defense of cultural issues that animate the Republican Party’s far right flank. But as Hartman shopped recently at a supermarket in this Rocky Mountain ranching outpost, she had one piece of advice for the Colorado lawmaker.
“Tone down the nasty rhetoric on occasion and just stick with the point at hand,” said Hartman, 65, a veterinary tech assistant.
That sentiment reflects Boebert’s challenge as she begins her second term in the House. In her relatively short time in Washington, she has built a national profile with a combative style embracing everything from gun ownership to apocalyptic religious rhetoric. Constituents such as Hartman in the Republican-leaning 3rd Congressional District laud Boebert for defending their rights, but cringe at her provocations, contributing to an unexpectedly tight race last year that she won by just 546 votes out of more than 300,000 cast.
“She tapped into what Trump was doing, and she maybe took it too far in some instances,” said Alex Mason, 27, adding that Boebert, whom he supports, is still more tactful than former President Donald Trump.
In an interview, Boebert said “this slim victory, it opened my eyes to another chance to do everything that I’ve been promising to do.”
To the congresswoman, that means being “more focused on delivering the policies I ran on than owning the left,” adding she hoped “to bring the temperature down, to bring unity.”
For much of past week, however, the temperature on Capitol Hill was only rising. Boebert was a leading voice among a group of lawmakers who refused to support Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become House speaker, a historic revolt against a party leader. McCarthy finally won the gavel...
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The “new and improved” MTG.
Meet the new Queen of Q, MTG threw A Conspiracy under the bus.
ping to you
Did she call other Republicans “terrorists”?
I’ll bet Lauren can throw a nice hands-breadth group downrange.
I suppose they’ve already told Maxine to tone it down.
Interesting how “Republicans” ask our fighters to tone it down while Democrats encourage their members to fight using over the top rhetoric.
This passes for news.
You go girl!
I remember I LEARNED... to ACT... it was AN ACT.. I ACTED made when I was with a store manager, and I could get what I wanted. Sometimes you have to be a Drama Queen, for people to listen. Shouldn’t be this way, but she was heard. It worked.
Exactly.
That's why I posted it in Chat, to mock Associated Pravda.
Show me the AP article where they smoke out Adam Schiff’s constituents advising him to tone it down with his lying divisive comments, or with any other Democrat for that matter. This is textbook propaganda, again, from the AP, a branch of the DNC.
true, and a very good point
Nasty rhetoric? You mean the kind of rhetoric which is the democrat’s stock in trade?
The "By Any Means Necessary" Party versus The Backstab Party.
Or else they’ll switch to the schizophrenic libtards
Fight like a Democrat...
OTOH, this 89-year-old veteran thinks she should speak her mind and verbally kick ass & take names...
Where did the bozos at Ass. Press get a list of Boebert’s backers?
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