Why does the Colorado Democrat think he can beat Rep. Lauren Boebert in a rematch?

In one of the most unexpectedly close midterm races in the country, 55-year-old “common sense” Democrat Adam Frisch failed to oust Colorado firebrand Lauren Boebert from Congress in the November election by just 564 votes.

While the next House election isn’t until 2024, Frisch hopes to unseat the leader of the “anger entertainment” circus from office.

“She didn’t even win her home county,” Frisch said in disbelief. “Only a small handful of members of Congress lose their home county.”

When asked to explain why Boebert, who lives in Garfield County, didn’t get more votes, he blamed other Republican candidates.

“I don’t know if there wasn’t enough enthusiasm for our top gubernatorial and senate candidates or what happened there,” Boebert told the outlet. Wall Street Journal in December, “but there were a lot of changes in the votes.”

While many voters in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District shut up to vote for Boebert, Frisch claims the national Democratic Party held him back in the midterms by “abandoning” rural America and presenting implausible climate goals and incohesive energy policies. .

“We just went to every nook and cranny, city and community that we could, and a lot of times we were the only candidate that ran, the only Democrat that ran.”

The former Aspen city councilman was practically a newcomer to politics. “It’s mostly stand-up moms and dads,” he said of the advice from the wealthy ski enclave. “I was probably the first person in history to take a city council seat and go do other things in politics.”

Born on a Native American reservation in Montana to parents who practiced health care and raised in Minneapolis, Frisch first came to Colorado through ski racing for the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He was injured before he even began competing for the team and eventually found his way to New York City, where he went from bartending to working for more than a decade in international finance, spending time in Asia and London.

‘After 9/11 I went to a lot of funerals. I thought it would be a time to reboot, I went out for the winter in Colorado in 2001-2002, I ended up meeting the proverbial girl from the next store and the rest is history,” she said. Frisch and his wife Katy have two children and live in Aspen.

The couple have been in Aspen for nearly two decades, where Frisch has made a living in the home building and construction business.

Katy is now a member of the school board. “She and I believe that children need to be in school, almost at all costs.”

During the Covid-19 pandemic, a teacher shortage led Frisch to obtain her substitute teacher’s license and taught pre-K and kindergarten a few days a week.

His self-described ‘vagrant’ lifestyle has turned him into views that are skeptical of party politics.

“I always tell people that if there was a party to get things done, I would be that party,” he said, adding that he sees himself in the Problem Solvers Caucus if he makes it to Congress.

“I’m not going to spend my time in an Oversight Committee yelling and yelling at tech execs about why they don’t have more Twitter followers,” he said, referring to Boebert and the Oversight Committee’s Big Tech censorship revenge tour. .

Frisch criticized her opponent saying that she “focused not on work but on herself”.

There’s a farm bill every six years and she doesn’t want to work on it. She doesn’t want to be on the Agriculture Committee, she wants to be on the Oversight Committee.’

All you see of her is, you know, the ghost and goblin committee.

‘The amount of shaking heads is a bit disheartening in the Chamber of Commerce and in the more right-wing communities because they know it. They know it’s a shame,’ said the Democratic candidate.

“I think as a moderate pro-business, pro-home energy Democrat, which is probably not exactly what the Democratic primary base is looking for to get to the primary, I felt I could build a coalition of Republicans, Democrats and Independents,’ Frisch continued.

“I think about 30 to 40 percent of the Republican Party wants to get the party back on track, focusing on the issues, not this ‘anger entertainment’ industry.”

“We call all kinds of people. We have some support. A lot of people respectfully laughed at us,’ she said, adding that in the national Democratic Party, ‘no one returned our calls.’

There is little love lost between Frisch and the National Democrats, who “messed up rural America for the last 30 years.” claims the Colorado Dem.

‘The Democratic Party is only 20 great cities: we can and must do better.’

‘This white working class, without college…the Democrats have lost that bucket and they’ve lost this bucket of rural America and the white working class, and they’re starting to lose some of the working class of Latinos and African-Americans as well.

He added: ‘They may be voting against some of their economic interests, but for the most part they are voting against their dignity and respect and their self-esteem.’

“That’s going to trump, pun intended, it’s going to trump the economy all day long.”

Frisch then rattled off statistics:

• 3,142 counties in the nation, 2,000 of them defined as ‘rural’ by the Department of Agriculture
• In 1996, President Bill Clinton won more than 50 percent of those counties.
• In 2012, President Barack Obama won 25 percent
• In 2020, President Biden won less than 10

‘When I go out with farmers and ranchers and we engage in conversations, I have very little time to say, hey, listen, why don’t you get the Farm Bill out? It’s 2000 pages long,’ he said. “Meanwhile, they’re being bombarded saying they’re dumb because they don’t have a college education, or that they don’t work hard because they’re in the oil and gas industry.”

He then lashed out at members of his party who tout lofty climate goals that he says have “no basis in reality.”

“Some of the very large urban Democrats who are complaining about oil and gas production, yes, I bet your constituents use five times more energy and power than the men and women in Western Colorado who actually produce energy.” .

And when it comes to Biden’s energy stance, he said, “I’m not sure what energy policy is.”

“When you have a president from any party, begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for help, yes, you need to have a different energy policy at the national level,” Frisch said.

“The climate crisis is happening by all means,” he prefaced, “but when you hear Biden in California talking about the need to shut all this down…then they have to back off.”

The moderate Democrat would not say if he wanted to see Biden at the top of the ticket he will run in 2024. “I will focus on my own district,” he said. “I think it is important that the democratic process develops. Let’s see what happens.

Frisch said Biden’s climate goals (net-zero US grid emissions by 2035) had a “math problem” and a “regulatory problem.”

“The places where wind and solar power are traded are not where it is used,” he said. “Producing the transmission lines to move solar power from eastern Colorado to downtown Denver or other places around it is incredibly expensive and time consuming.”

He predicted that it would be 80 years before there would be enough transmission lines to rely on solar power.

“It’s very, very frustrating on a national level, when you have politicians or other people talking about things that literally have no mathematical chance of happening.”

On gun access and ownership, Frisch and Boebert, who owns gun-themed Shooters Grill in her district, differ less on policy issues.

I am a big believer in the Second Amendment.

“Western and southern Colorado have this leave-me-alone kind of libertarian streak,” he said. “So we see very high Second Amendment and also very high pro-choice.”

Frisch said he favors dropping the restrictions on Colorado’s current gun laws, which include the red flag legislation Boebert says he opposes. He said it’s “very, very complicated” to ban guns by type, but “many people, if they want to have a bazooka, it’s fine for society.” Other people shouldn’t hold a screwdriver.