Lauren Boebert asks Pete Buttigieg for $33 million after insulting him repeatedly

[Rotadom]

Shes Butthurt.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06...te-buttigieg-33-million-insulting-repeatedly/

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has insulted out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, repeatedly. She voted against President Joe Biden’s infrastructure initiative and has decried it as wasteful spending.

Now though, she’s going hat in hand to Buttigieg, asking for $33 million for a new bridge in her district.

Related: Rightwing rag attacks Pete & Chasten Buttigieg with “poem” full of homophobic tropes

Last year, Boebert proudly proclaimed that she gave birth in a truck in order to insult out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for taking “maternity leave” to “figure out how to chest feed” his children. She said he wasn’t doing his job and accused him of making an “R-rated” movie with Jeff Bezos instead.

But now she’d like a bridge to drive her truck over.

“With Rural Surface Transportation grant funds, Glenwood Springs will construct a new bridge connection that will provide a critical second emergency route/evacuation access between State Highway 82 and the western side of the Roaring Fork River in the City’s South Corridor,” she wrote in a letter to Buttigieg. Wildfires have ravaged Colorado in recent years due to climate change that Boebert has downplayed as a liberal conspiracy to raise gas prices.

But only a few short months ago, Boebert decried the spending as “wasteful” and asserted that only “RINOs” (Republican in name only) would support the initiative. When the Durango Herald questioned the far-right congresswoman on the hypocrisy of asking for cash from a fund she opposes, Boebert pivoted away from the question.

“I am for investing in rural Colorado, but Biden’s so-called infrastructure bill was not the right way to do it,” she told the paper. “Less than 10% of (the) $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill went to roads and bridges. The bill provides tens of billions of dollars for Solyndra style slush funds, Green New Deal policies, electric busses (sic), and government welfare.”

This isn’t the first time that Boebert has tried to quietly ride Buttigieg’s coattails to a stronger approval rating. The initiative to improve the nation’s aging infrastructure has been incredibly popular among average Americans.

She distributed a newsletter that touted “9 Boerbert wins for Colorado” earlier this year. She bragged that she had shepherded needed cash into local communities, but the money came from the infrastructure package and earmarks. Earmarks, specific funding priorities added into legislation before final passage, have also been a target of Boebert’s scorn. She says she opposes them.

Buttigieg, a professional administrator, is expected to overlook Boerbert’s partisan and personal attacks when considering the request.

 

[butters]

it's happening all over... massive amount of work being done on roads and bridges in the southern states like Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, thanks to President Biden's infrastructure spending that virtually all republican congress/senators opposed. Then they claim 'look at the improvements I'VE made...vote for ME!'

 

[butters]

Pete's husband, Chasten, calls her out over her 'shoutout' to American dads

Boebert was among the Transportation secretary’s toughest critics, accusing him in a November YouTube video of “not working” because he was “trying to figure out how to chest feed.”

“While he builds up his image as a doting dad, the country burns up around him,” she said.

Chasten said he and Buttigieg’s “two-month-old son was on a ventilator at the children’s hospital when you attacked my husband for being with his family.”

“I watched him take calls and Zooms from our hospital room all day, managing crisis after crisis while our son’s heart monitor beeped in the background,” he wrote on Twitter.

Chasten was referencing a Father’s Day tweet from Boebert in which she said the “role of the father is absolutely fundamental to the family and to society as a whole,” before she gave a “shoutout of gratitude” to America’s dads.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=bb9a480049e04889adb10464abeb56aa

 

[YDB95]

it's happening all over... massive amount of work being done on roads and bridges in the southern states like Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, thanks to President Biden's infrastructure spending that virtually all republican congress/senators opposed. Then they claim 'look at the improvements I'VE made...vote for ME!'

There's nothing new about that. I'm sure they all know most Americans do actually want a well-functioning government that provides for things like infrastructure, clean air and water, etc. - they just don't want to pay for it.

 

[Chernosoth]

The nation built a tremendous amount of infrastructure without much regard for the rising costs of infrastructure maintenance and the value of locations. With rising energy prices and climate change some regions uninhabitable, much of what has been built will be abandoned as more expense than it's worth. If western Colorado remains populated and economically viable enough that it needs a new bridge, then the state, communities, and federal tax credits can pay for it. As the federal government becomes more incompetent, states may do less negotiating and simply tell the feds they will pay less taxes.

 

[Dribble]

Fuck her District. They have made clear their desire for the Federal Govt through their election of her. They should be given exactly what they want...nothing.

 

[jaF0]

BooBoo seems to be having a hissyfit.