Photo: YouTube screen shot.
An ad for Jeff Hurd has been appearing in my YouTube feed lately. He’s currently my Congressman, and running for re-election.
According to his campaign website, Jeff grew up an average kid in Grand Junction. He attended public elementary school, played Little League baseball, and learned to swim at the city pool.
Those are all things I myself also did, as an average kid.
One thing Jeff did, that I didn’t do, was open a law office in Grand Junction. That’s not something an average kid typically does. An average kid is more likely to become an underpaid journalist.
Then Jeff did something else an average kid wouldn’t do. He got himself elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and subsequently pissed off the President. But no permanent damage was done.
From the 30-second YouTube advertisement:
Jeff Hurd is working with President Trump to secure the border, and keep us safe… And when Democrats tried to pass the largest tax hike in history, Jeff Hurd voted ‘No”…
… Call Jeff and tell him for keep working with President Trump, to keep us safe, and lower the cost of living.
The ad included a phone number, so we can call Jeff and thank him.
I’m pretty sure everyone wants to be kept safe, and also wants a lower cost of living. And I intend to call Rep. Hurd and thank him for working with President Trump. I realize they can’t increase my salary, but maybe they can lower my cost of living? The price of gas might be a temporary setback, but the two of them, working together, ought to be able to fix that.
And they are indeed a team again, now that President Trump no longer thinks Jeff is a RINO.
Things looked a little dicey back in February, when President Trump wrote on social media:
Based on a lack of support, in particular for the unbelievably successful TARIFFS imposed on Foreign Countries and Companies which has made America Richer, Stronger, Bigger, and Better than ever before, I am hereby WITHDRAWING my Endorsement of RINO Congressman Jeff Hurd, of Colorado’s 3rd District, and fully Endorsing Highly Respected Patriot, Hope Scheppelman, to take his place in Congress.
It looked for a moment like Hope Scheppelman might kick Jeff’s butt in the June primary. Republican voters are not all that fond of RINO candidates, in my experience.
But Jeff and the President are once more a team, and Hope Scheppelman has been promised a job in the Administration, in exchange for dropping out of the primary race.
From a March 20 article by Caroline Vakil in The Hill:
President Trump announced Friday that he met with a primary challenger of Rep. Jeff Hurd’s (R-Colo.) and was able to get her to drop her bid as Republicans look to avoid a nasty contest in a House race that Democrats are eyeing this November.
The President wrote on social media that he had met with Hope Scheppelman and her husband to discuss “various opportunities to serve our Country in a different capacity than her current run for the United States Congress.”
Trump said Scheppelman would be suspending her campaign bid to join his administration “in a capacity to be determined.”
“Together with them, we decided that Congressman Jeff Hurd, of Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, should in no way, shape, or form, be impeded from winning the District in that the Democrat alternative is a DISASTER for our Country,” he wrote.
“Therefore, I will be fully supporting Jeff’s Re-Election to the House of Representatives, giving him my Complete and Total Endorsement!”
I have to assume that someone accidentally told the President that Jeff Hurd was a RINO, and the President later got better information and (thankfully) changed his opinion and started posing for photos with Jeff.
When I call Jeff to thank him for securing the border, I’m also going to offer him some ideas. Because I’ve been watching this whole border fiasco for the past 20 years, and it seems like it’s not enough to have big metal walls and a $70 billion budget, if we really want to be safe and secure.
We need a real solution. Stop trying to “secure the border”. Just get rid of it.
Jeff should encourage the President to buy Mexico. I mean, let’s fix this thing, and fix it right. No more screwing around.
We saw how well the invasion of Venezuela and Iran went. But illegal Mexicans just keep on crossing the border. So let’s just get rid of the border. Who needs it, once we own Mexico?
I hope Jeff listens to my suggestion. But he has my vote, either way.
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.