Dear Representative Tipton: Your decision to join AOC and her Squad to bailout Boulder is as shocking as your previous decision to vote alongside Nancy Pelosi to hand amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.

On April 7th, Boulder’s Representative Joe Neguse introduced H.R. 6467. Denver’s Fox 31 reported: “…Neguse introduced a bill that would provide $250 billion in relief to cities and towns below that 500,000 threshold, including Boulder…”.

On April 7th AOC and her Squad (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley) joined the bill as original co-sponsors.

On April 14th you became the first and only Republican at that time to co-sponsor the bill, joining AOC and her Squad to bailout Boulder.

Tellingly, Colorado’s other Republican representatives, Ken Buck and Doug Lamborn, refused to join you.

Boulder is one of the wealthiest and liberal communities in the country. The Boulder city budget includes $6 million per year for “climate initiatives”, mandates a “living wage” of more than $17 per hour for every city employee and the city’s rainy-day fund that has yet to be exhausted.

You should be ashamed asking ranchers in Craig and peach farmers in Palisade and steelworkers in Pueblo to bailout Boulder. Boulder can go fund themselves.

It was your decision to join AOC and the Squad to bailout Boulder instead of crafting better legislation. It was your decision to waste taxpayer dollars on liberal bailouts. That’s on you. Own it.