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Wed Dec 11, 2019, 10:27 AM Dec 2019

Owner of Shooters Grill in Rifle launches challenge to Rep. Scott Tipton

Lauren Boebert says Cortez lawmaker ‘silent’ as ‘left-wing lunatics’ wreck country

Lauren Boebert, the owner and operator of a Western Slope restaurant where all staffers openly carry guns, announced on Sunday a conservative primary challenge to Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton.

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, The Squad and the rest of these left-wing lunatics are taking a wrecking ball to our country while our current representative stays utterly silent,” Boebert said in a statement announcing her candidacy in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

“The Squad” is a group of four new, liberal Democratic congresswomen of color that includes Ocasio-Cortez, a U.S. representative from New York.

“Hard-working, patriotic Americans like you and me don’t want the Green New Deal and socialized medicine,” Boebert said. “Every time AOC and the rest of The Squad pipes up with another crazy idea, I will remind them that our belief in God, country and family are what built the United States of America into the greatest nation the world has ever known.”

Boebert’s restaurant, Shooters Grill in Rifle, has been the subject of media attention because its employees openly carry firearms while serving customers. Boebert is a gun rights activist, recently showing up — a pistol strapped to her waistband — at a gun-control event for then-presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke in Aurora to confront him about his pledge to take away people’s assault-style weapons.


https://the-journal.com/articles/161440-owner-of-shooters-grill-in-rifle-launches-challenge-to-rep-scott-tipton

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Owner of Shooters Grill in Rifle launches challenge to Rep. Scott Tipton (Original Post) bluedigger Dec 2019 OP
I hope she hocks the restaurant for her campaign warchest. marble falls Dec 2019 #1
Gunz, krosses on the wall, Jeebus, patriotz, soshulizzm, librulz... she got it all CurtEastPoint Dec 2019 #2
Colorado crazy! mountain grammy Dec 2019 #3
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