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Adam Frisch
Adam Bennett Frisch (born October 1, 1967) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. He served on the Aspen City Council from 2011 to 2019 and chaired Pitkin County's financial review committee from 2005 to 2011.
Frisch was the Democratic nominee for a house seat in Colorado's 3rd congressional district against Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert, which he lost by 554 votes and a margin of 0.16%. The narrow result was surprising to many political pundits who had expected Boebert to win by a larger margin. In February 2023, Frisch announced his second campaign for the same seat in 2024. Boebert switched districts and Frisch lost to Republican Jeff Hurd.
Frisch was born in 1967 to a Jewish family. Frisch's family lived on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana until he was five years old. The family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they attended a Conservative synagogue. His father was an obstetrician-gynecologist and later worked for Planned Parenthood five years before retiring. Frisch was involved in ski racing from a young age but had to give it up after sustaining an injury. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder, in 1990 with a degree in economics.
After college, Frisch waited tables in Manhattan before becoming a currency trader for 10 years. He has traveled extensively around the world.
In 2003, he moved to Colorado. He chaired Pitkin County's financial review committee from 2005 to 2011. He then served on the Aspen City Council from 2011 to 2019. During that period he was instrumental in sending a development referendum to voters, known as "Lift One", which barely passed. The development project, fronted by a member of the Gorsuch family split the community, affected the credibility of the local newspaper, The Aspen Times, and raised questions about the developers.
In 2022, he won the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Colorado's 3rd congressional district by 300 votes. Frisch traveled throughout the state, covering more than 3,000 miles and visiting 102 venues during the last days of the campaign. He appealed to Colorado Western Slope's rural populations with his family's roots in the west (his great-grandfather started a cattle ranch, which remains in the family). The New York Times wrote that Frisch characterized his challenger, Lauren Boebert, "as a flamethrower in an increasingly polarized Congress, who he said was more focused on placating the Republican Party's far-right Trump wing than reducing inflation and adding jobs".
On the campaign trail, he repeatedly characterized Boebert as "part of the 'angertainment industry,' crediting the expression to his middle and high school buddy, current Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips".
During this campaign The Denver Post wrote Adam Frisch, then an Aspen city councilman, reversed his support for a proposed Lyft pilot program after Aspen taxi operator Todd Gardner claimed he blackmailed Frisch with video footage allegedly showing him arriving for an extramarital affair. Frisch denies both the affair and the blackmail allegation, asserting his vote change reflected public opposition and procedural concerns. He was not the swing vote in the final decision. Gardner's claim was Boebert's main form of attack against Frisch during the campaign.
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Adam Frisch
Adam Bennett Frisch (born October 1, 1967) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. He served on the Aspen City Council from 2011 to 2019 and chaired Pitkin County's financial review committee from 2005 to 2011.
Frisch was the Democratic nominee for a house seat in Colorado's 3rd congressional district against Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert, which he lost by 554 votes and a margin of 0.16%. The narrow result was surprising to many political pundits who had expected Boebert to win by a larger margin. In February 2023, Frisch announced his second campaign for the same seat in 2024. Boebert switched districts and Frisch lost to Republican Jeff Hurd.
Frisch was born in 1967 to a Jewish family. Frisch's family lived on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana until he was five years old. The family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they attended a Conservative synagogue. His father was an obstetrician-gynecologist and later worked for Planned Parenthood five years before retiring. Frisch was involved in ski racing from a young age but had to give it up after sustaining an injury. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder, in 1990 with a degree in economics.
After college, Frisch waited tables in Manhattan before becoming a currency trader for 10 years. He has traveled extensively around the world.
In 2003, he moved to Colorado. He chaired Pitkin County's financial review committee from 2005 to 2011. He then served on the Aspen City Council from 2011 to 2019. During that period he was instrumental in sending a development referendum to voters, known as "Lift One", which barely passed. The development project, fronted by a member of the Gorsuch family split the community, affected the credibility of the local newspaper, The Aspen Times, and raised questions about the developers.
In 2022, he won the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Colorado's 3rd congressional district by 300 votes. Frisch traveled throughout the state, covering more than 3,000 miles and visiting 102 venues during the last days of the campaign. He appealed to Colorado Western Slope's rural populations with his family's roots in the west (his great-grandfather started a cattle ranch, which remains in the family). The New York Times wrote that Frisch characterized his challenger, Lauren Boebert, "as a flamethrower in an increasingly polarized Congress, who he said was more focused on placating the Republican Party's far-right Trump wing than reducing inflation and adding jobs".
On the campaign trail, he repeatedly characterized Boebert as "part of the 'angertainment industry,' crediting the expression to his middle and high school buddy, current Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips".
During this campaign The Denver Post wrote Adam Frisch, then an Aspen city councilman, reversed his support for a proposed Lyft pilot program after Aspen taxi operator Todd Gardner claimed he blackmailed Frisch with video footage allegedly showing him arriving for an extramarital affair. Frisch denies both the affair and the blackmail allegation, asserting his vote change reflected public opposition and procedural concerns. He was not the swing vote in the final decision. Gardner's claim was Boebert's main form of attack against Frisch during the campaign.