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

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[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago
[-] Maeve@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

But you're talking sense... Not 'Murrican...

😜

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[-] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

You have a point.

[-] n0m4n@lemmy.world 7 points 1 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.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There's a whole page of his views and plans for different issues here https://adamforcolorado.com/issues/

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[-] HerrLewakaas@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

For me personally that would suffice lol. It doesn't get much worse than Bobert

[-] Llamalitmus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

If there is anything the last 3 years has taught me, it can always get worse.

[-] rthmchgs@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] neptune@dmv.social 2 points 1 year ago

The election is a year away. And why make an unforced error?

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[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 year ago

Imagine thinking that in 2023 an UK newspaper is restricted to only UK readers.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 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@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 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@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta leave some bait in the title.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 62 points 1 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.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 year ago

My impression is that folks there are more than a little tired of being "Boebert Country".

For what it's worth, she was born in Florida.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but she's not quite the Gaetz level of sex offender, so she couldn't get elected there.

[-] Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well she married a sex offender

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

And she performed explicit acts in a public place. Still not Gaetz level, but definitely at least sex offender adjacent, and probably should be a convicted sex offender.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe not in Gaetz's district, which is off the rails.

[-] trash@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

Boebert's Beetlejuice Blunder was right there....

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

So was boner.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

... that's... absolutely fantastic

[-] TheJims@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Republicans will always elect the worst possible candidate

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 4 points 1 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@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 6 points 1 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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 6 points 1 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.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 1 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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[-] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Why did I think this was Brian Kilmeade when I first saw the picture?

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