Curtis McCrackin
A third Republican has entered the race to challenge U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert for the 3rd Congressional District.
Delta real estate agent Curtis McCrackin said he’s entered the race for various reasons, including the rising debt ceiling.
“Few people in Washington seem to be concerned about the $31 trillion in debt,” McCrackin said in a statement. “The biggest issue facing voters in western Colorado in 2024 is the inflation caused by the excessive spending in the American Rescue Plan Act, and the monetary policies that followed raising the interest rates.”
McCrackin has spent the past two decades in real estate and construction in the Surface Creek Valley, northeast of Delta.
He joins two others who have announced their candidacies for the GOP primary next year. The others are Grand Junction attorney Jeffery Hurd and Glenwood Springs resident Russ Andrews.
Although Hurd only recently entered the race and has not yet filed a campaign report with the Federal Election Commission, Andrews has, collecting only about $22,500, half of which was a loan to himself.
Boebert, meanwhile, leads the GOP pack in the race with nearly $1.5 million in her campaign account.
That pales by comparison, however, to the leading Democrat in the race, Aspen businessman Adam Frisch, who has outraised Boebert by more than 3-1since re-entering the race. Frisch narrowly lost to Boebert last year by 546 votes.
He has raised nearly $4.4 million since January compared to Boebert’s $1.5 million.
Four other Democrats also are in the running, including Grand Junction Mayor Anna Stout.
The other three are Gunnison resident Debby Burnett, Pueblo resident Adam Withrow and Davis Karpas, who lives in Edwards outside of the congressional district.
