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Democratic Nominee Adam Frisch's Formula for Defeating Lauren Boebert

Aspen's Adam Frisch, the Democratic nominee for the 3rd Congressional District
currently represented by Lauren Boebert, knows that he's something of an
unlikely candidate for such a high-profile gig. "I'm self-aware that the
average Democratic voter wasn't looking for a white, middle-age straight person
from a resort community," he says with a smile.

Still, Frisch, a successful businessman who contributed an estimated $2
million to his own campaign, believes he has a formula to send Boebert packing
despite redistricting changes that make defeating a Republican incumbent in the
3rd even more daunting than before.

"This is one of the top races in the country, because of the handful of
extremists in Congress right now, she's the only one who's vulnerable. We only
need to get 10 percent of her prior voters, and a third of them just voted
against her," he notes, referring to the 36.1 percent of the vote that former
state rep Don Coram kept from Boebert in the June 28 Republican primary. "It's
an uphill challenge, but it's doable."

In last month's Democratic primary, Frisch defeated Sol Sandoval, who'd been
considered the frontrunner to take on Boebert, with 42.4 percent of the vote to
her 41.9 percent — a narrow margin, but just outside the point that would have
triggered a recount. Both Sandoval and Alex Walker, who earned 15.7 percent of
the vote (after launching his campaign with an ad showing a Boebert lookalike
spraying faux sewage from a hose), have pledged to stump on his behalf.

When telling his origin story, Frisch focuses on elements that contradict the
image of a rich, entitled Aspenite that Boebert and her minions are likely to
push. "I spent my first five years on an Indian reservation in northeast
Montana," he notes. His father worked in the public health service, went on to
become a career OB/GYN and "spent the last four or five years before he retired
working for Planned Parenthood, to make sure the next generation of health-care
providers had the proper training." And after the family moved to Minneapolis,
he says, "my mom helped with the public-schools system" on issues such as
diversifying the student mix at various institutions.

During his youth, Frisch got into ski racing, which inspired him to enroll at
the University of Colorado Boulder in 1986. His ski-racing career was
short-circuited by injury, "but I decided to stay, because it's obviously a
great institution," he says. He subsequently headed to New York City, where "I
fell into working in one of the first socially responsible investment funds. It
wasn't so much green technology, because there wasn't as much of it then, but
helping people avoid certain industries when they were putting their money to
work," he notes. From there, "I got involved with global interest rates and the
financial markets — spent eight years traveling the world and went to forty or
fifty different countries."

After 911, Frisch decided to move back to Colorado and "ended up meeting a
gal on the Western Slope and convinced her that if we wanted to build a family,
we should possibly look at Aspen for a place to go, because of the business
opportunities," he recalls. He and wife Katy settled in Aspen in 2003, and in
addition to building that family — their two children are Quintessa, fifteen,
and Felix, sixteen — they became embedded in the community. Katy "runs a family
manufacturing business" and is currently president of the local school board,
and Frisch spent eight years, from 2011 to 2019, as a member of the Aspen City
Council, where "90 percent of my focus was about affordable housing, which is a
really important aspect here in Aspen," he says. He also did some substitute
teaching during COVID because of his belief that students learn better in a
classroom.

Frisch's latest chapter began unfolding this past November. "After Boebert
said something disparaging, mean, petty, obnoxious, bigoted, I pulled out the
2020 election results for six or seven people in the House — people like
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz. I saw that most of them had 65-to-75
percent win ratios in 2020, but Boebert had only won 51 percent of CD3 — it was
51 to 46 percent" over challenger Diane Mitsch Bush," he notes. "I thought, if
5 percent of the people had switched their vote, Boebert would have lost."

In the two years that followed, the math became a little more difficult, with
the 3rd Congressional District's percentage of Republican voters rising
substantially after new lines were drawn. But Frisch says he was prepared for
that: "I assumed redistricting was coming, so I thought we needed 10 percent to
switch. But I still see her as electorally weak, and I thought that if a
moderate Democrat could get past the primary, he could build a coalition with
Democrats, independents and the rational Republican crowd. So 10 percent of
those prior voters is the holy grail of how someone can win."

At that time, Frisch was registered as unaffiliated, but he switched to the
Democratic Party in December. "I had some core Democratic values," he stresses.
"The driving force is who sits on the U.S. Supreme Court. Taxes and regulations
come and go, but it's obviously relevant how important the Supreme Court is. I
know I'm not applying for a job that has a direct influence on who's on the
court, but I'd rather have Democrats than Republicans making those decisions."

Nonetheless, he admits that "if there had been a normal Republican running,
like Don Coram, I wouldn't have gotten into this race, because I don't think a
Democrat can defeat what I would call a mainline Republican in this district."
Indeed, he adds, "The only reason I got into this conversation was because of
Boebert, who's extremist in a couple of ways. She's voted against the financial
interests of our district and she has an extremist view of a number of things,
including being really pro-Putin. And I don't need 50 percent of Republicans to
vote for me. I only need 10 percent."

Frisch announced his candidacy in February, and while he had the benefit of
his personal financial resources, "We worked really hard," he recalls. "My wife
and I had a nineteen-foot camper trailer, and we turned it into a mobile
billboard — the 'Beat Boebert Buggy.' We drove to dozens of communities,
including a lot of places that hadn't had a candidate come through when they
could remember; we'd stop in front of schools to let people know how focused I
was on education and just talk to them. And we won despite having a demographic
that wasn't right up the alley of the traditional Democratic base because I was
able to get in front of people and let them know I'm a kind, caring person
who's a good listener, and my background doesn't conform to the stereotypes
that people were concerned about."

The top issues for Frisch are "the economy and inflation. Everything costs
too damn much, whether it's rent, a pound of beef or, obviously, a gallon of
gas. We'll be going on some kind of economic-recovery tour and help people to
understand that I've had a lot of success in business, and that type of success
will be needed to focus on the economy." He's also concerned about making sure
health care and educational opportunities are available in rural communities as
well as larger metropolitan areas, plus issues related to water rights and
energy. As he sees it, "we need to have a true transition from legacy
production to future production, but we also need to respect people from those
legacy industries. A great example of this transition is a 150-year-old steel
mill in Pueblo that's 90 percent solar-powered. So Colorado has a lot of
examples of how to do this transition properly. But it's important to realize
that when these jobs change, people need to be moving to jobs that pay well."

Earlier this week, Frisch formally challenged Boebert to a series of five
debates, with a format designed to discuss topics at length rather than in
short social-media outbursts. "I think a lot of people know that her sweet spot
is her Twitter account and being on cable news, where I think Fox News is the
most liberal venue where she speaks," he says. "It's very clear that she's
handled in a very protective way, and they don't allow non-friendly audience
members to be in her crowds. But I think people in the district want to have
longer, in-depth conversations that aren't petty — conversations about how we
can help out families and individuals in CD3."

He adds: "Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are chairs of the anger-tainment
industry, and I think a lot of people want the circus to stop. She called Don
Coram a 'woke liberal,' and he may be a lot of things, but he's not that. So I
think a lot of people are looking for a rational choice, regardless of what
party I'm representing. We're building a coalition of the pro-normal party."

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Boebert agrees to single debate with Democratic challenger, but Frisch wants 4
more

Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and her Democratic challenger, Adam
Frisch, are scheduled to face off in early September at a debate in Grand
Junction, their campaigns confirmed, but Frisch, a former Aspen city council
member, said he hopes the Republican incumbent agrees to additional meetings in
the run-up to the November election.

On Monday, Frisch challenged Boebert to debate five times — in Grand Junction
at Western Slope advocacy group Club 20's fall meeting, and in other cities
throughout the sprawling 3rd Congressional District, including Pueblo, Alamosa,
Durango and Rifle, where Boebert operated Shooters Grill until earlier this
month when the gun-themed restaurant closed after losing its lease.

“I will debate Lauren Boebert anytime, anywhere, on any issue," Frisch said
in a release.

Boebert's campaign told Colorado Politics in an email that the congresswoman
has accepted and looks forward to attending the match-up at Club 20's meeting
but didn't respond to an inquiry about scheduling additional debates.

"She also looks forward to winning this election in the fall so she can help
fire Nancy Pelosi," the campaign said in the email.


Frisch told Colorado Politics he's happy to talk about any issue Boebert
wants to discuss, including the Second Amendment and energy independence.

"I’m not surprised that she’s scared to debate me, to get in front of her
voters," he said. "I think one of the core duties of a public elected official
is to go talk to everybody, not just show up in the most friendly of places."

Club 20's 3rd CD debate takes place in the middle of a day of debates
featuring legislative, statewide and congressional candidates running to
represent parts of the Western Slope.

Traditionally, the meeting's debates have served as the unofficial kick-off
to Colorado's fall campaign season, though in the past two election cycles
several Democrats running in top-ticket races — including Jared Polis, making
his successful run for governor in 2018, and John Hickenlooper, on the way to
winning a U.S. Senate seat in 2020 — have skipped the debates.

Also in 2020, neither Boebert, who was seeking her first term, nor her
Democratic opponent, former state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, showed up for the
confab, with Mitsch Bush citing COVID safety concerns and Boebert declining to
participate if she couldn't submit a prerecorded video answering questions
provided in advance. The two didn't manage to schedule any other debates, and
Boebert went on to win the Republican-leaning seat by about 6 percentage points.

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