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Those two are state Rep. Donald Valdez, D-La Jara, and Pueblo resident Soledad Sandoval Tafoya.
The two join three others who already have announced their intention to seek the nomination: state Sen. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail; Glenwood Springs attorney Colin Wilhelm; and Westcliffe rancher Gregg Harrison Smith.
Valdez, who tried to get the nomination last year but dropped out of the race before the June primary, said Boebertâs actions since taking office have prompted him to try again, particularly over the Silt Republicanâs attempts to challenge the outcome of the presidential election.
âLauren Boebert has proven to be a threat to our democracy, and her peddling of dangerous conspiracy theories isnât doing anything good for us here,â said Valdez, who made headlines statewide Wednesday when he tried to get the Colorado House to launch an investigation into a Republican representative who attended the Jan. 6 rally.
Rep. Lauren Boebert hosted her first town hall representing Colorado s 3rd Congressional District through a virtual, phone-based meeting on Thursday night, citing 55,000 participants.
Some questions were from those opposing Boebert and what she stands for, while others seemed to be based on the presumption that she had taken part in or encouraged the violent riot in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
The first question was based on this, and ultimately the caller was cut off before the end of her question. Your incendiary tweets have not addressed the 53,000 cases of COVID in District 3, nor have they addressed the 900 deaths in our district. It s disgraceful. You ve also condoned Marjorie Taylor Greene s incendiary posts and tweets promoting anti-Semitism and racist comments. I want to know why this is. Not one . asked one caller, who identified herself as Kerry (spelling unknown) from Eagle.
Just yesterday, Lauren Boebert called the COVID recovery package a boondoggle, Donovan told Colorado Politics. I don t think that trying to keep your small business open is a boondoggle. I don t think that figuring out how to vaccinate teachers is a boondoggle. I m running for Congress because this part of Colorado needs a congresswoman who s more concerned with results than headlines.
Via C-SPAN U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks in support of an objection to counting the electoral votes for president submitted by Arizona on the House floor on Jan. 6, 2021. Via C-SPAN
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campaign video released Thursday, Donovan took aim at Boebert s notoriety as a pistol-packing defender of the Second Amendment.