Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) is involved in a new public crusade against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold following the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of a bid to boot Trump from presidential election ballots in Colorado. The nation’s highest court concluded that responsibility for executing invoked portions of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment rested instead with Congress.
The problem is… Griswold, though generally supportive of the idea of keeping insurrectionists (like alleged of Trump) off the ballot, wasn’t responsible for the original challenge to Trump participating in this year’s elections on the basis of his argued involvement in the Capitol riot of early 2021 via incitement. A publicly posted letter signed by Boebert and GOP officials in Colorado misleadingly credited Griswold in emphatic terms for the effort, threatening a recall initiative — meaning a push to “recall” (remove) her from the state role.
To be clear, it didn’t even outline a specific recall effort taking shape. Instead, the GOP letter just vaguely threatened the possibility. “@JenaGriswold, start packing your bags,” Boebert wrote online.
Griswold responded by referencing Boebert’s current run for Congress in a new (to her) Congressional district, abandoning a jurisdiction where she was facing a repeat campaign from Democrat Adam Frisch, who lost against Boebert by only hundreds of votes in 2022. “Hey Lauren, I had to laugh at the ‘pack your bags’ comment given your recent move. Bring on the recall. Unlike you, I’ve always defended our Constitution and democracy,” Griswold said, clearly not that worried about Boebert’s attention-grabbing gesticulating.
One could imagine that Boebert making waves by talking about trying to push Griswold from office on the basis of something she didn’t even start is meant as a boost to her lagging campaign in the Congressional district she’s targeting now. Boebert, meanwhile, faces new personal scrutiny after an arrest of her son in Colorado on allegations including theft and the improper possession of ID documents.
