Lauren Boebert, whose teen son got his girlfriend pregnant, says she doesn't want to 'nitpick what the Bible says is right and wrong'
"Obviously, I'm a Christian, and there are standards that we like to uphold, but none of us do it perfectly," Boebert told Dave Rubin, a podcast host.
news.yahoo.comLauren Boebert, whose teen son got his girlfriend pregnant, says she doesn't want to 'nitpick what the Bible says is right and wrong'
"Obviously, I'm a Christian, and there are standards that we like to uphold, but none of us do it perfectly," Boebert told Dave Rubin, a podcast host.
news.yahoo.comAnti-Trump GOP voters mostly loyal in 2022, but not entirely
Most of them, as faithful Republicans, backed GOP candidates in 2022, AP VoteCast shows. Voters who do may be eager to revert to a Republican candidate who represents their traditional conservative values. Republican strategist Alex Conant suggested GOP candidates cannot count on these voters so long as Trump is involved in politics. In Ohio and Georgia, for example, the two governors outperformed Republican candidates for Senate who were endorsed by Trump. Non-MAGA Republicans are more likely than MAGA Republicans to say that Biden was legitimately elected president.
wftv.comColorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, 36, is about to be a grandma
Colorado representative Lauren Boebert, 36, announced she’s going to be a grandmother next month. The Republican firebrand made the declaration earlier this week at a Moms for America event, from which video started making the rounds Thursday. “Not only am I mom of four boys, but come April, I will be a GG to a brand new grandson,” she beamed. Newsweek reports that the child’s father is ...
news.yahoo.comGOP House’s Anti-Immigration Hearing Turns White Nationalist Screed
The U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Tuesday at times sounded more like a bile-brimming Unite the Right rally than a congressional proceeding. This is the language of “replacement theory.” The racist conspiracy theory holds that accommodating immigration policies are part of a plot to replace white people in positions of power and culture. In fact their policy is a success, it’s not a failure because this is their intent.”Quintessential replacement theory. “They believe this is part of their social equality campaign to fundamentally change America.”Such replacement theory rhetoric kills people. When members of Congress amplify white nationalist goals, they put lives at risk, further polarize American society, and dishonor the country’s proud legacy as a beacon of freedom.
flaglerlive.comRep. Nancy Mace scorches Washington in brutal roast: 'I love exercising First Amendment rights'
WASHINGTON — In her speech before the Washington Press Club Foundation on Wednesday night, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., launched into an uncommonly sharp comedic monologue that skewered just about everyone from gun-loving Rep. Lauren Boebert to progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar. At one point, she turned toward Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., the first member of Gen Z elected to Congress. No feeling unites Democrats and Republicans like suspicion of the press, giving Mace perhaps the easiest and most obvious target of the evening. Sitting on the stage next to the podium where she was speaking, Washington Press Club Foundation President Seung Min Kim, a White House reporter for the Associated Press, looked by turns uncomfortable and amused. Mace she “tried looking” for Rep. Ilhan Omar in the audience “but it looks she lost her seat.”The joke alluded to Republicans' expulsion of Rep. Omar, a critic of Israel, from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
wftv.comLauren Boebert Mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene's Big White Balloon
In case you’ve missed it: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Co.), who don’t seem to realize that they are two sides of the same terrible coin, have been very publicly at war with each other for some time now. And that war continued apace on Tuesday with Boebert once again mocking Greene—this time for carrying a large white balloon around the U.S. Capitol all day ahead of Biden’s State of the Union address to symbolize the so-called “Chinese spy balloon” that the military
news.yahoo.comBoebert's backers urge her to 'tone down the nasty rhetoric'
“Tone down the nasty rhetoric on occasion and just stick with the point at hand,” said Hartman, 65, a veterinary tech assistant. That sentiment reflects Boebert's challenge as she begins her second term in the House. In her relatively short time in Washington, she has built a national profile with a combative style embracing everything from gun ownership to apocalyptic religious rhetoric. Raleigh Snyder, a retired aircraft mechanic in Grand Junction, said Boebert was America’s only chance against “endemic corruption” in Washington. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
wftv.comBoebert's backers urge her to 'tone down the nasty rhetoric'
Debbie Hartman voted for Lauren Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in 2022, delighted by Boebert's unequivocal defense of cultural issues that animate the Republican Party's far right flank. “Tone down the nasty rhetoric on occasion and just stick with the point at hand,” said Hartman, 65, a veterinary tech assistant. In her relatively short time in Washington, she has built a national profile with a combative style embracing everything from gun ownership to apocalyptic religious rhetoric.
news.yahoo.comA look at the final GOP holdouts McCarthy hopes to sway
WASHINGTON — (AP) — Six GOP members-elect remained opposed to Rep. Kevin McCarthy as he sought to secure enough support late Friday to become the next speaker of the House. A look at the holdouts:— Andy Biggs of Arizona is the former chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus. He not only challenged McCarthy during an initial, internal GOP vote for House speaker, but he was also a nominee himself in the first round of voting Tuesday. McCarthy took up the cause in his push to become House speaker, saying that if Mayorkas didn’t resign, GOP-led investigations could lead to impeachment proceedings. Gaetz has consistently depicted McCarthy as a Washington insider, calling McCarthy “the LeBron James of special interest fundraising in this town."
wftv.comMcCarthy foes relish the fight: 'A really beautiful thing'
“This is actually, a really beautiful thing," said Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., one of those opposing McCarthy, as the House prepared Thursday to take its ninth vote on who should be the chamber's next speaker. Boebert said the action on the House floor was the most debate she's seen in her two years in Congress, “and I love it." Those are words that Republican have used to describe what's going on in the House Republican conference right now." McCarthy's struggle so far marks the first time in 100 years that no nominee for House speaker could win the gavel on the first vote. Bacon said, referring to the voting drama on the House floor.
wftv.comFlorida's 'Don't Say Gay' law fuels anti-LGBTQ hate online
Research that analyzed social media posts finds that hateful references to gays, lesbians and other LGBTQ people surged online after Florida passed a law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
EXPLAINER: Why Congress is looking closely at Jan. 6 rally
The House panel investigating the Jan_ 6 Capitol insurrection has focused some of its early work on the planning behind a massive rally at which President Donald Trump falsely claimed to have won reelection and told his supporters to “fight like hell.”.
Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history
On Wednesday, Reinfeld was reeling from the latest mass shooting even closer to home, after authorities say a 21-year-old gunned down shoppers at a local grocery store. “I could see at some point leaving because of all this,” said Reinfeld, a gun control activist. But it's also been haunted by shootings that have helped define the nation's decades-long struggle with mass violence. The Aurora shooting brought that terror from schools to a movie theater. After each of Colorado's biggest massacres, the local gun control movement has gained heartbroken new recruits.
Democratic-led House makes conservation push with lands bill
The bill passed mostly along party lines, with eight Republicans joining all but one Democratic lawmaker in voting for the bill. It is one of the largest land protection packages Congress has ever considered and covers almost 3 million acres of public lands, overwhelmingly in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona. The ideological split over the bill was evident as the congressional delegation from Colorado debated the measure on the House floor. The legislation encompassed bills from Rep. Joe Neguse and DeGette that would affect more than 1 million acres of public lands in the state. “I prefer public lands with many uses," he said.
Texas blackouts fuel false claims about renewable energy
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame. “We should never build another wind turbine in Texas,” read a Tuesday Facebook post from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. Still a variety of misleading claims spread on social media around renewable energy, with wind turbines and the Green New Deal getting much of the attention. AdA viral photo of a helicopter de-icing a wind turbine was shared with claims it showed a “chemical” solution being applied to one of the massive wind generators in Texas. On top of that, while Texas has ramped up wind energy in recent years, the state still relies on wind power for only about 25% of its total electricity, according to ERCOT data.
A fluke or the future? Boebert shakes up Colorado district
But unlike Greene, Boebert doesn't hail from an overwhelmingly GOP, safe district. But unlike Greene, Boebert doesn't hail from an overwhelmingly GOP, safe district. The question strategists in Colorado and elsewhere in this divided country are asking is whether Boebert is a fluke — or the future. AdIn an interview, Boebert said the district's voters are eager for disruption. Boebert insists she and the rest of the first-term class of lawmakers are the future, even in districts like hers.