In one of the country’s unexpectedly closest midterm races, 55-year-old “healthy” Democrat Adam Frisch failed to eject Colorado firefighter Lauren Boebert from Congress in November’s election by just 564 votes.
While the next parliamentary elections are not due until 2024, Frisch is looking forward to beating the “Angertainment” circus leader out of office.
“She didn’t even win her homeland,” said Frisch in disbelief. “Only a small handful of congressmen lose their home district.”
With the next general election not due until 2024, Adam Frisch looks forward to beating the Angertainment ringmaster out of office
Fresh talking to voters in Colorado
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) blamed other Republicans for not getting more votes in the November midterm elections. “I don’t know if there wasn’t enough enthusiasm for our top ticket candidates for governor and for the Senate or what happened there.”
When asked why Garfield County resident Boebert didn’t get more votes, she blamed other Republican candidates.
“I don’t know if there wasn’t enough enthusiasm for our lead candidates for governor and for Senate or what happened there,” Boebert told the Wall Street Journal in December, “but there was a lot of shifting in the votes. ‘
While many voters in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district held their noses to vote for Boebert, Frisch claims the national Democratic Party held him back in the midterm elections by “abandoning” rural America and setting unimaginable climate goals and incoherent energy policies have .
“We just went into every nook and cranny, every city and township that we could, and many times we were the only candidate that ever came up, the only Democrat that ever came up.”
The former Aspen councilman was practically a newcomer to politics. “It’s mostly moms and dads who stand up,” he said of the wealthy ski enclave’s advice. “I was probably the first person to take a seat on the city council and move on to other things in politics.”
Born on a Native American reservation in Montana to parents who were health professionals, Frisch was raised in Minneapolis. He first came to Colorado via ski racing for the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He was injured before he even started driving for the team and eventually found his way to New York City – where he transitioned from waiting tables to working in international finance for over a decade, spending time across Asia and London.
“After 9/11 I went to a lot of funerals. I thought it was time to do a fresh start, came out to spend the winter of 2001-2002 in Colorado, finally met the proverbial girl next to the shop and the rest is history,” he said. Frisch and his wife Katy have two children and live in Aspen.
The couple have lived in Aspen for almost two decades, where Frisch made his living in the home building and construction business.
Katy now serves on the school board. “You and I believe that the children must go to school at almost any cost.”
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a teacher shortage prompted Frisch to get his substitute teacher’s license and teach preschool and kindergarten a few days a week.
His self-described “vagabond” lifestyle has endowed him with views that are skeptical of partisan politics.
“I always tell people if there was a Get Juice Done party, that party would be me,” he said, adding that he sees himself in the Problem Solvers’ caucus when he comes to Congress.
“I’m not going to spend my time on any oversight committee yelling and yelling at tech execs why they don’t have more Twitter followers,” he said, referring to Boebert and the oversight committee’s big-tech censorship revenge spree.
Frisch’s self-described “vagabond” lifestyle has endowed him with views that are skeptical of partisan politics
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) and former President Donald Trump enjoy a strong political connection, especially after announcing his third presidential bid in November
Frisch criticized his opponent as “not focused on the job but on himself”.
“There’s an agricultural bill every six years, and she doesn’t want to work on that. She doesn’t want to be on the Agriculture Committee, she wants to be on the Oversight Committee.”
“All you see of her is the Ghosts and Goblins Committee.”
“The amount of heads that kind of shake in despondency at the chambers of commerce and more right-wing communities because they know. You know she’s embarrassing,” the Democratic nominee said.
“I think as a pro-business, pro-domestic energy, moderate Democrat — which is probably not exactly what the Democratic primary base is looking for to get through the primary — I felt like I could build a coalition of Republicans, Democrats and… Democrats build independents,” Frisch continued.
“I think about 30 to 40 percent of the Republican Party want the party to go back to normal and focus on issues that aren’t part of this ‘fear’ industry.”
“We called all sorts of people. We got some support. A lot of people respectfully laughed at us,” he said, adding that at the national Democratic Party, “no one answered our calls.”
Little love is lost between Frisch and the National Democrats who have “botched up rural America for the last 30 years.” claims the Colorado Dem.
“The Democratic Party is only 20 big cities – we can and must do better.”
“This white working class, no college … the Democrats have lost that bucket and they’ve lost that bucket of rural America and white working class and they’re starting to lose some of the working class Latinos and African Americans, too.”
He added: “They may vote against some of their economic interests, but mostly they vote against their dignity, respect and self-worth.”
“That will be trump – pun intended – that will trump the economy throughout the day.”
Fresh then rattled off statistics –
- 3,142 counties in the country, 2,000 of which are defined as “rural” by the Department of Agriculture
- In 1996, President Bill Clinton won over 50 percent of these districts
- In 2012, President Barack Obama won 25 percent
- In 2020, President Biden won fewer than 10
“When I’m out with farmers and ranchers and we start talking, I rarely have time to say, ‘Hey, listen, why don’t you get the Farm Bill? It’s 2,000 pages,” he said. “Now they’re being bombarded with being stupid because they don’t have a college education, or not working hard because they happen to be in the oil and gas industry.”
He then snapped up members of his party peddling high-flying climate targets that he says have “no basis in reality.”
“Some of the Democrats from very large urban areas who are complaining about oil and gas production — yes, I bet your constituents use five times more energy and power than the men and women of western Colorado who actually produce energy.”
And when it comes to Biden’s energy stance, he said, “I’m not sure what the energy policy is.”
“If you have a party president asking for help from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, yes, then you need a different domestic energy policy,” said Frisch.
“The climate crisis is definitely happening,” he said, “but if you hear Biden in California talking about having to shut down all these things … then they have to go back.”
The moderate Democrat declined to say if he wanted Biden at the top of the ticket, where he will run in 2024. “I’m going to focus on my own district,” he said. “I think it is important that the democratic process comes into play. Lets see what happens.”
Frisch said Biden’s climate goals — net-zero emissions from the US grid by 2035 — have a “mathematical problem” and a “regulatory problem.”
“The places where wind and solar are traded are not where they are used,” he said. “Building the transmission lines to carry solar energy from eastern Colorado to downtown Denver or anywhere else in the area is incredibly expensive and incredibly time consuming.”
He predicted that it would be 80 years before there were enough transmission lines to rely on solar power.
“It’s very, very frustrating at a national level when politicians or other people talk about things that there’s literally no mathematical way to do.”
When it comes to gun access and ownership, Frisch and Boebert—who own the gun-themed Shooters Grill in their area—have fewer disagreements on policy issues.
“I’m a firm believer in the Second Amendment.”
“Western and southern Colorado have this libertarian way of leaving me alone,” he said. “So we see a very high second amendment and also a very high endorsement vote.”
Frisch said he prefers to leave restrictions on Colorado’s current gun laws, which include red flag legislation that Boebert said he opposes. He said it was “very, very difficult” to ban guns by type, but “a lot of people, if they want to own a bazooka, it’s fine for society. Other people shouldn’t be holding a screwdriver.’