It’s no surprise to me that Boebert treats an existential threat to our national security like a joke. She treats veterans like a joke, too – voting against us over 15 times.
Well, I’m not laughing – and neither are the voters of CO-4.
That’s why I’m polling 14 points ahead of Boebert and that’s why, with your support, we are going to beat her in November.
Please donate today and share this message with everyone you know who wants to get Boebert out of Congress.
Semper fi,
Ike McCorkle
Combat Wounded
U.S. Marine Corps, Retired
Democratic Candidate for CO-04
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From: Ike McCorkle <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, May 26, 2024
Subject: Climate security is national security
John,
“I will go on the record with you all tonight and say that I absolutely believe in climate change. It happens four times every year.”
That’s a joke Boebert made last summer while Americans were living through the hottest summer on record. Personally, I don’t find it funny at all.
We could explain to Boebert that climate and weather are not the same thing, and that climate change is the cause of these extreme fluctuations in weather.
Of course we might not have to explain that if she bothered to listen to the Colorado cattle ranchers who are having to sell off their herds due to droughts caused by global warming.
But as a decorated, combat-wounded Marine, my biggest problem with Lauren’s little wisecrack is not that she has no idea what she’s talking about, it’s the fact that Lauren Boebert claims to care about our military and keeping our country safe while cracking jokes about one of the greatest national security threats we face.
That’s not my opinion, that’s the official assessment of the Department of Defense. Pentagon research has concluded that environmental degradation, social tensions, political instability, and global conflicts are increasing because of climate change.
It’s been 10 years since the Pentagon first declared it a major national security issue. Three years ago, they upgraded that threat level to an existential crisis.
