The Democrat who is running to unseat the controversial Colorado Congresswoman, Lauren Boebert, and almost defeated her in 2022, says defeating Boebert means she’ll be denied a lifetime pension.
Lauren Boebert: Can the Dems Beat Her?
In 2022, Democrat Adam Frisch narrowly lost to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), in what ended up as the closest Congressional race in the country.
Boebert defeated Frisch by just 546 votes after it appeared on election night like Frisch might win the race. And this came after Frisch had won the Democratic primary for the seat by around 300 votes.
Just three months after losing the general election, Frisch announced that he’s running for the seat again in 2024, and it’s sure to be one of the most closely watched House races in the country in the coming cycle.
Frisch, in recent months, has been fundraising successfully, while also frequently running against Boebert’s various antics, whether she’s trying to designate the AR-15 as the nation’s “National Gun,” or attempting to force a vote on the impeachment of President Biden.
Now, Frisch has made a rare pitch: That defeating Boebert will prevent her from qualifying for a full Congressional pension.
“Here’s an infuriating idea: If Lauren Boebert wins again in 2024, she becomes eligible for a lifetime congressional pension – paid for by you, the taxpayer,” Frisch said on Twitter. “If that doesn’t make you want to give $10 right now to Adam Frisch’s campaign to defeat Boebert, we don’t know what will.”
The tweet is illustrated with a photo of Boebert with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), even though the two MAGA-associated Congresswomen have since fallen out with one another, over their rival efforts to impeach President Biden, among other disagreements.
According to a Times-Union fact check published in 2015, “Members of Congress are eligible for a pension at the age of 62 if they have completed at least five years of service. Members are eligible for a pension at age 50 if they have completed 20 years of service, or at any age after completing 25 years of service.” Boebert, first elected in 2020, would reach five years during a third term in Congress, should she be elected in 2024.
Time magazine wrote in mid-June about how Frisch and Colorado Democrats plan to defeat Boebert in 2024. The race is Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District,
“People want to vote for a winner,” Frisch told the magazine. “I don’t say this with pride, but it’s going to be probably one of the more expensive, one of the more nationally-focused races.”
The story also said that Frisch raised $1.7 million from about 45,000 donors in the first three months after announcing, which outraised his Republican opponent by over $1 million. Frisch, he made clear in that interview, knows that he has a better chance this time around, after coming close last year.
“It’s hard when FiveThirtyEight says you’re supposed to lose by 45,000 votes,” he says of his last bid. “It’s hard for fundraising. It’s hard for media.” Adding to that is that the Colorado 3rd is a Republican-leaning district.
“We’ll get some support, because last time, we got 0.0 dollars from the Colorado Democratic Party, and we got 0.0 dollars from the national Democratic Party,” Frisch added. “Without a doubt, both parties are watching this race.”
Frisch also discussed the race in a Newsweek story, also in June.
“I think if there was a traditional, moderate Republican who actually took the job seriously, I would not have thought about running for a couple of reasons,” the Democratic candidate told Newsweek.
“One is if there was a moderate serious Republican in the seat they would probably be doing a fairly good job in my mind of representing their district, and two, it would be very, very hard for even a really conservative Democrat to defeat a moderate Republican because of how the numbers work out.
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