Boebert's boondoggle

Last week, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert filed a privileged motion that forced a vote on a resolution to impeach President Joe Biden. Boebert promised to bring the resolution to a floor vote on a daily basis, ad infinitum.

Last year, Boebert delivered federal remittances to Colorado Congressional District 3 (CD-3) of $4.95 billion. The average congressional district in the state enjoyed federal remittances of $6.05 billion. Our district was short-changed by approx. $1.1 billion, which amounts to $1,452 per man, woman and child in CD-3. That is real money that could have been used to fix our roads and bridges.

I am certainly no fan of Biden. His weak foreign policy, his open borders (with the attendant 107,000 annual opioid deaths), his alleged corruption with ties to Russia and China.

I also did not support his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and his green boondoggle to wealthy donors, which is wilting our public fisc and international prestige.

But, somebody needs to explain to me (I am running for the Republican nomination in CD-3 against Boebert) how impeaching Biden will increase federal spending in the largest non-single-state congressional district in the nation.

– Russ Andrews, Carbondale