Critics of Republican Representative Lauren Boebert had something to celebrate on Thursday.
Boebert’s political rival, Adam Frisch, raised $3.4 million for his campaign in the third quarter of 2023, ratcheting up his cash on hand to $4.3 million. The fundraising was backed by more than 100,000 donations with an average of $32, according to a press release from his campaign. The announcement comes after Frisch outpaced Boebert’s fundraising 3-to-1 in the second quarter, when Boebert raised $818,000 to Frisch’s more than $2.6 million.
I don’t like Boebert any more than the next person with an average IQ … she’s an idiot.
But the most disturbing thing about this story is the idea that whoever has the most money gets to be elected.
I have my criticisms about conservatives and I have my disagreements but normalizing the idea that money is what gets people elected should be just as disturbing.
Because if that is so … it isn’t a democracy. It’s something else.
the most disturbing thing about this story is the idea that whoever has the most money gets to be elected.
It does strongly correlate but it’s an open question whether the donations cause the win, or more viable candidates attract more donations. Big donors want to garner favor with and gain access to the winner, after all.
How about neither?
Big donors shouldn’t be able to garner favor or gain access to the winner over other interests. And donations certainly shouldn’t cause the win.
It would be great to get money out of politics, but that’s not the way things are. The game must be played as it is if we are to improve the rules to be more fair and less corrupting. Current law is political money = free speech.
Wealth and power have always had that privilege. It’s the very basis on which America was founded. Though it didn’t originate in America, and predates it.
Over the centuries we’ve done minor things to ameliorate it. To whit those with wealth and power have rigged it back twice as hard. As long as capitalism goes unpunished however. That’s not going to change.
There’s also a question of the donors vs. the actual constituency. Boebert is running in a fairly strong-R district. They voted Trump in 2020 and they’ve been electing republicans to her seat for more than a decade. If money is an influencing factor, still Frisch is going to need more than Boebert to win.
The donors, on the other hand, could live anywhere. Every Democrat in this country wants Boebert to lose, whereas Republicans are pretty mixed on her. So of course Frisch is going to get more cash, that doesn’t mean the people who can actually vote for him, those who live in CO-3, will do so.
This doesn’t take into account how close he came to beating her in the last election. Or, at least there’s no mention of it in your comment which suggests that it wasn’t taken into account.
I’m not sure what’s confusing about this: He didn’t beat her. The people who voted for her that time are mostly still alive. He has an uphill battle.
I agree 100%, but at the same time you have to work within the system as it is. Losing races due to taking principled stances about dirty campaign money and purity risks giving victories to fascists. That’s the more immediate problem.
Can’t fix anything without getting elected first
She should try Onlyfans 😅
What, again?
Who is going to pay for it when she doles it out in public though?
Also, gross.
We can only hope 🤞
Adam Frisch came within 600 votes of defeating Boebert without this much money to spend. The money is likely given freely now by people who hate Boebert more than they like Frisch. They never want to hear about this trashier version of Sarah Palin again and donate make sure he wins, but if the donations are primarily coming from outside his conservative district, this election could still be decided by Trump’s ability to motivate people who would still enthusiasticly vote Boebert to show up at the polls. If that happens and true conservatives just sit this one out rather than voting for “the other side”, CO may end up sending this train wreck back to DC.
Yay! Go Adam FTW!
She’s a rotten stupid Cunt.
Pretty sad that the front runner is determined by how much cash they can get from their supporters.
Imagine if their success was driven by their action.
Oh. I’m sure she could have success. It’s just that congress isn’t where her actions would be appreciated and monetized.
I dunno. Think the MIWLF scene really generates much money?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Democrat hoping for rematch against Lauren Boebert touts $3.4 million in donations – biggest quarterly haul yet," user @kathrynresists posted.
Many critics referenced the recent debacle in which Boebert was kicked out of a performance of the Beetlejuice musical in Denver in September after she was accused of vaping, illegally recording and causing a disturbance during the show.
Boebert attended the show with her date, Quinn Gallagher, and the two were allegedly groping each other during the performance.
“However, Boebert’s situation has changed since then due to her involvement in a scandal related to sexual misconduct at the Beetlejuice musical,” the user posted.
Newsweek reached out to Boebert’s press office and Frisch’s campaign by email for comment.
In July, the Cook Political Report shifted the race to a toss-up after previously saying it would lean Republican.
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