Sheila Jackson-Lee: Can't Your Staffers Read Bills Lauren Boebert?

Still feuding. The worst comes in next posting.

The most worthless lawmaker in the Western Slope of Colorado continues to stoke "angertainment." It appears that Adam Frisch is likely going to run for a second time to defeat her.

Republican lawmaker Lauren Boebert of Colorado continues to do what 49.9% of the voters disapprove of. The lawmaker barely won. At final count, Boebert won with 549 votes ahead of Frisch.

Many of her supporters even told her to stop making noise and focus on the 3rd Congressional District.

Debbie Hartman voted for Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in 2022, delighted by Boebert’s unequivocal defense of cultural issues that animate the Republican Party’s far right flank. But as Hartman shopped recently at a supermarket in this Rocky Mountain ranching outpost, she had one piece of advice for the Colorado lawmaker.

“Tone down the nasty rhetoric on occasion and just stick with the point at hand,” said Hartman, 65, a veterinary tech assistant.

That sentiment reflects Boebert’s challenge as she begins her second term in the House. In her relatively short time in Washington, she has built a national profile with a combative style embracing everything from gun ownership to apocalyptic religious rhetoric. Constituents such as Hartman in the Republican-leaning district laud Boebert for defending their rights, but cringe at her provocations.

Boebert has engaged in feuds with numerous lawmakers. Her most notable were Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and now Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX).

Boebert took issue with the bill and aimed at the Texas lawmaker.

In case you weren’t aware of what the Democrats were prioritizing in the 118th Congress, just take a look.

When they’re not bankrupting our country, they’re busy making a mockery of the First Amendment. https://t.co/Q8DEEEioTI

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) January 16, 2023

Jackson-Lee had introduced a bill that addresses extremism. She wrote a bill that criminalizes violent instigation of white supremacy. Lee's bill was reaction to the Buffalo mass shooting attack in which a man filmed attack on Black shoppers through alt-tech.

The man also advocated anti-Black rhetoric on those white supremacy platforms.

Jackson-Lee introduced the Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023 to assign criminal punishment for certain forms of hate speech.

The bill's language is broad and could result in people facing criminal charges for sharing hateful content, including on social media.

Under Jackson-Lee's bill, a "person engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime."

Just a few weeks ago, she had to check Brian Mast.

The bill would impose criminal penalties for anyone who "published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ‘replacement theory,’ or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group, and such published material," if it was "read, heard, or viewed by a person who engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy inspired hate crime."

Though the bill has no chance of moving through the Republican-led House, Jackson-Lee hits back at Boebert for being clueless to how bill are drafted. She even took aim at her inability to have her staffers look at bills.

For starters, it took me about 32 seconds of reading the article you cited to understand that none of you know what you are talking about. H.R. 61 simply deals with adding white supremacy to a list of reasons to be convicted of a hate crime.

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 16, 2023

Your argument *assumes* that only white people can hold white supremacist views and that only certain groups of people can perpetrate violence motivated by white supremacy.

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 16, 2023

If so, are you going to deny that white supremacy played a role in the Charlottesville attack when Nazi-sympathizers belched “Jews will not replace us?” Who is “us?”

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 16, 2023

And then, are you going to deny that the Trump-appointed Director of the FBI testified in March 2021 under oath, under penalty of perjury, that white supremacy was the greatest domestic terror threat facing our country in the Senate Judiciary committee hearing, March 2nd, 2021?

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 16, 2023

Yes, white supremacy should be added to this law. Why? Because as Director Wray testified, it’s a major domestic terrorist threat.

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 16, 2023

Now let me be clear, I’d be happy to sit down with you to explain the importance of this legislation.

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 16, 2023

With that being said, I hope we can all now honor Dr. King’s legacy together.

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 16, 2023

Boebert is one of 90 members who have very to little accomplishments. She has spent 90% of her time outside her district. Even with the warning to tone down the noise, she continues to double down.

Doubling down on trying to "own the libs" instead of delivering results.

Many of her supporters rather see her vote "no" on issues than appear on television, radio and the internet yelling it.

She and Greene are not productive lawmakers. They are invested in being in the limelight and being accepted by white extremists. Damn shame, though.

Only the voters will decide if her noise will earn her a third term.