In Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, you will find some of the best climbing in the entire world. Durango alone offers over 1,500 routes on some of the most beautiful rock you could imagine. Toss in Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Ignacio, and Pueblo, then include Rifle and Steamboat Springs, this district covers over 47% of the state of Colorado. It’s not only a climber’s paradise, but also a paradise for everyone who enjoys the stunning beauty that this planet has to offer. The mountains, the rivers, the cliffs, the sunsets, the forests, Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District has something for everyone. Even if you prefer shopping, eating, relaxing, and unwinding at a brewery, this is the place.
Fort Lewis College in Durango is great school with a noted liberal arts program, a business school, and education department. They offer 59 different majors, with small class sizes, and great diversity. Fort Lewis is ranked as one of the best Green Colleges by The Princeton Review. They have access to 300 miles of hiking and biking trails, and they support nearly 100 student clubs and organizations. They even have a climbing wall and climbing team. It’s an accessible school which is noted for supporting the community.
Speaking of Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District and educational opportunities within the district, did you know that during the 117th Congress, Rep. Boebert has 2 votes that would help the children in her district. She has introduced 0 bills to help children, and she has taken 31 actions that the Children’s Defense Fund Action Council believes to be against the interests of children. Rep. Boebert has received an “F” for her record on children within her district.
Rep. Boebert’s climate record is no better. In fact, it’s worse. Her score on climate is 0%, meaning that the person representing Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, an epicenter of natural beauty in Colorado has voted anti-environment every single time that a vote has come up. Except for once when she missed a vote on House Roll Call 345, which introduced a Bill to protect the Grand Canyon and Colorado’s Public Lands. Although Rep. Boebert missed the vote she is on record stating that she would have voted against it.
Rep. Boebert is amused by her record on environment consistently joking that she “Absolutely believes in Climate Change”.
“Now listen, Eagle County, I will go on the record with you all tonight and say that I absolutely believe in climate change. It happens four times every year.” – Lauren Boebert (July 2023)
Hysterical! She also hit the world with this example of hilarity.
“I don’t think that any of us are climate change deniers. I fully agree that the climate is changing. It happens four times every year. In Colorado, sometimes four times in one day.” – Lauren Boebert (March 2023)
But the fun doesn’t stop there because there is also this zinger…
“Climate change is absolutely real. It happens four times every year, and we’re not surprised by it. In Colorado, sometimes it happens four times in day.” – Lauren Boebert (February 2023)
Maybe after her career in politics she can try stand-up comedy. That would be fitting because although Rep. Boebert isn’t even remotely funny, she is a joke! Unfortunately, the joke is on all of us.
In 2022 Rep. Boebert won her reelection bid by a mere 546 votes. The world, the US, and Colorado deserve better than Lauren Boebert. I’m not sure the bar has ever been so low, but please Colorado, please come through in 2024.
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Durango, CO gave us Sepp Kuss (bike racer who is usually in a supporting role but won this year’s Vuelta a España). Certainly not enough to overcome Lauren Boebert, but a redeeming human quality for the area. By all accounts I’ve seen, he’s even a nice person.
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He sounds awesome, I need to reach out to him to get him on the podcast!
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Anna Navarro said she’s like watching the Limbo (a dance) “how low can you go” words in one song when discussing Bo Bo I mean Boebert. When it comes to dismissing nature & children, you can’t go much lower!
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She is something, that is for sure!
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Nice piece. I’m biased. I went to Fort Lewis (class of ’84). Durango, and all the western slope are beautiful. Also, Lauren Boebert is evil defined. Thanks for sharing!
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Haha…Go Skyhawks! I love the comment, thank you!
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And thank you. This will tell you how far back I was there. When I was at FLC, they were the Raiders. The mascot was an infantryman on horseback brandishing a sword. Turns out, they figured out that wasn’t too PC, for a school that lets (Native American) Indians go free.
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A true OG, way to represent!!!
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https://www.colorado.com/articles/hidden-colorado-gem-penitente-canyon
As for Boobs, SHE doesn’t know who SHE is. If she realized who she is, she wouldn’t be such a douche. She’s despicable and beyond contempt. My big question is whether silicone tits feel … well, never mind.
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I was waiting for you to comment, it was really hard not to call her out for all the lies, and stupid things she had to say over the time that she has been in the media. I pretty sure that if it weren’t for her stated love for guns she would still be completely unknown. I wish that were the case!
Thanks for the link, I wish I lived in CO, what a dream destination!
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People call Boobs out all the time. It makes no difference to her what her constituents say. You can visit Colorado 😀
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So many like this Congresswoman are driven by greed, materialism, popular sound bites and the politics of fear. It will be our children and our children’s children who pay the price. Thank you for this blog. We must continue to chip away at these attitudes by naming them for what they really are.
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As a 38-year Durango resident (and FLC grad 2007), I can say that Boebert is the worst thing to happen to this district in my time here. In La Plata County, we sure didn’t care much for her predecessor, but he at least had brains. I am glad her challenger is willing to run again. Fingers crossed. It’s uphill in a heavily R-favored district.
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I think all the climbers in the entire world will be pulling for you! I think the world is actually pulling for you. Hopefully the new young voters will push the ballot in a new direction!
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Anything you can do will be much appreciated!!
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And yet they keep re-electing her. Doesn’t say much for the intelligence of some of the voters.
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That is the truth!
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Unlike today’s children, I don’t have to face so many bleak decades of extreme weather and its consequences. I still find hope for humankind, though mostly in environmentally conscious and active young people, especially those approaching or reaching voting age.
In contrast, the dinosaur electorate who have been voting into high office consecutive mass-pollution promoting or complicit/complacent governments for decades are gradually dying off thus making way for voters who fully support a healthy Earth thus populace.
Mass addiction to fossil fuel products by the larger public undoubtedly helps keep the average consumer quiet about the planet’s greatest polluter, lest they feel and/or be publicly deemed hypocritical.
Also, relatively trivial politics diverts attention away from some of the planet’s greatest polluters, where it should and needs to be sharply focused.
Meantime, if the universal availability of green-energy alternatives will come at the profit-margin expense of traditional ‘energy’ production companies, one can expect formidable obstacles, including the political and regulatory sort. If it conflicts with big-profit interests, even very progressive motions are greatly resisted, often enough successfully.
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That is such a perfect comment, thank you for adding to the piece with an excellent and welcome PS.
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Thank you for allowing me the space to do so.
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