Let me tell you how this started, because the version Lauren Boebert would like you to remember is not the one that happened.
It started with a website and one sentence. In May of 2022, we put up fireboebert.com, and the message on it was not complicated: we helped fire Madison Cawthorn, and now it was Boebert’s turn. [SOURCE: HuffPost, May 2022: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/madison-cawthorn-lauren-boebert-muckrakers-back-firing-campaign_n_62883dc4e4b05cfc268c57d2] The logo, fittingly, was a dumpster on fire. [SOURCE: Smoky Mountain News profile: https://smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/35461] I had just come off the Cawthorn campaign with my co-founder, Colonel Moe Davis, and I will be honest with you about what I thought at the time. I thought I had seen this movie before. I looked at Boebert and I saw Cawthorn’s twin sister. Same act. Same righteousness. Same certainty that the rules were written for other people. [SOURCE: Smoky Mountain News, same URL]
