{"id":66232,"date":"2020-02-07T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boebert-touts-constitutional-conservatism-at-cortez-rally\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:36:01","slug":"boebert-touts-constitutional-conservatism-at-cortez-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boebert-touts-constitutional-conservatism-at-cortez-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Boebert touts constitutional conservatism at Cortez rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Candidate for U.S. Congress Lauren Boebert spoke at a campaign rally at the Baymont Inn in Cortez Friday night.<\/span>Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Rifle looking to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton of Cortez, came to town Friday to deliver her \u201cconstitutional conservatism\u201d message to about 40 residents at the Baymont Inn.<\/p>\n

To show her support for the 2nd Amendment, Boebert packs a Glock handgun on her thigh during speeches. Wait staff at her Shooters Grill restaurant in Rifle also are known for openly carrying handguns.<\/p>\n

She said she is running for Congress because \u201cour personal freedoms are under attack, our constitutional rights are under assault.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIts not complicated. Crazy liberals like Nancy Pelosi and (Alexandria Ocasio Cortez) and every other Democrat who hates America want to take away our rights and freedoms and our property. As conservatives, we just want to keep them. It is really that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says her willingness to speak up and garner media attention for defending constitutional rights makes her a good candidate, because \u201cI don\u2019t see other congressmen doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her upfront style led her to confront former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke on his stance to control assault rifles. She drove to a Aurora rally, grabbed a microphone and stated, \u201cHell no, you\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boebert said she grew up in a Democrat home, but the party\u2019s failed policies \u201climited our life.\u201d<\/p>\n

She objected to Tipton\u2019s support for the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, claiming it leads to \u201camnesty for 1 million illegal immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Tipton counters that the bill does not provide amnesty or citizenship for migrant workers, rather it modernizes the process by which U.S. farmers retain seasonal law-abiding migrant workers that meet stringent requirements and enter the U.S. legally.<\/p>\n

Boebert hopes to win the Republican nomination for Tipton\u2019s 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses the Western Slope and Southern Colorado.<\/p>\n

After Friday\u2019s speech, she took questions from the audience on constitutional issues, the threat of Western Slope water bring diverted to the Front Range, and the ballot initiative asking voters whether wolves should be reintroduced in Colorado.<\/p>\n

Boebert was invited to speak at the morning session of the Southwestern Colorado Livestock Association annual meeting on Saturday at the Cortez Elk\u2019s Lodge, 2100 N. Dolores Road. Tipton also will speak, along with other elected officials, and officials from the Colorado Parks and Wildlife, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and others. The morning session begins at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican looks to unseat Rep. Scott Tipton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,299,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-national-elections","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90389,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66232\/revisions\/90389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66232"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}