Recent News: Phelen highlights Boebert’s limited policy successes

“Only Chris Phelen, a former congressional staffer who is a major underdog in the contest, attacked Boebert during the debate, highlighting her limited policy successes and questioning the impact of her Pueblo Jobs Act, which she frequently touts. The bill deals with the cleanup at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.

“Are you sick and tired of people that are coming to Congress just to get more social media hits, likes — whatever they’re doing?” Phelen said. “I am — and that’s what I think that someone up on this stage is doing.”

Boebert fired back that she was unable to pass legislation during her first term because Democrats were in charge (that’s part of the story, the other part is her bills were highly partisan) and she defended her social media megaphone.

“I have used that bully pulpit to get a lot of things done,” she said.

Outside of Phelen’s attacks, however, the other candidates on stage almost entirely ignored Boebert and stuck to their talking points in a big departure from how the first Republican primary debate in the race went last month.”