[66] According to the Atlas of the 2020 Elections, Boebert was able to command strong support in the traditionally conservative areas of the Western Slope of Colorado and the San Luis Valley while retaining enough Republican votes in liberal-leaning Pueblo and other Democratic areas. Lauren Boebert defends her past during Durango visit to prohibit tax dollars for this purpose. [176], Boebert was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the authorization of military force against Iraq. During the State of the Union address this week, Lauren Boebert interrupted Biden as he talked about the death of his son. [162] She compared the federal government's COVID-19 vaccination efforts to "Biden [deploying] his Needle Nazis",[190][191] and accused Anthony Fauci, who told people to overcome their political opposition and get the COVID-19 vaccine, of bullying. Lauren Boebert: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com Adam Frisch raising more than Lauren Boebert in 2024 race in Colorado When leftists allowed a man to dominate in womens sports, I stood up for female athletes being left behind. She made the difficult decision to drop out of school to help put food on her family's table, realizing she could provide better for herself than the government ever could. The 34-year-old. One size does not fit all when it comes to education and our nation's youth, and education matters are best handled at the state, local, and family levels. [175] She cited concern about a passage that urged social media platforms to prevent disinformation and violence, which she said was tantamount to making Big Tech the "arbiter of truth". [57] The result gained national attention and surprised political commentators. [117][118] While the Capitol was being stormed, Boebert posted information on Twitter about the proceedings of the certification, including that the House chamber had been locked down and that Pelosi had been evacuated. Snopes then quotes the rep: I went to my high school. Good luck! She advocates for an isolationist foreign policy, but supports closer ties with Israel for religious reasons. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it. A 36-year-old, citizen legislator from Rifle, Colorado, she never held public office prior to her 2020 victory and is the first woman, first mother, and youngest ever to represent the District. [182][183], Boebert supports the construction of a MexicoU.S. In October 2020, Boebert's campaign denied any connection to the Proud Boys and said Boebert did not share Bishop's views. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days. [27], In early 2020 Boebert protested stay-at-home orders issued by Colorado Governor Jared Polis, which included closing restaurants to indoor dining in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [135], Boebert is a strong advocate for gun rights. [70], Despite campaign finance laws and ethics laws requiring Congressional candidates to reveal their immediate family's income sources to show potential conflicts of interest, Boebert did not report her husband's income in her 2020 filing, instead belatedly revealing it in August 2021,[26] the same day the Federal Election Commission (FEC) sent her a letter investigating her campaign expenses. Last year, Twitter was flooded with claims that Lauren Boebert had recieved her GED diploma (the equivalent of a high-school diploma, gained by passing General Educational Development tests) just months before being elected to Congress. [71] The filing, while misnaming the company involved, stated that her husband Jayson was paid $460,000 in 2019 and $478,000 in 2020 as a consultant for Terra Energy, one of Colorado's largest natural gas producers and fourth nationwide in methane emissions. [158], During her 2020 campaign, Boebert pledged that she would not support any federal budget that resulted in additional debt[36] and that she would support a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. [177][178] She also voted against the bipartisan ALLIES Act, which would increase by 8,000 the number of special immigrant visas for Afghan allies of the U.S. military during its invasion of Afghanistan while also reducing some application requirements that caused long application backlogs; the bill passed the House, 40716. Lauren Boebert for Congress Lauren Boebert, who began working at McDonald's when she was 15, dropped out of high school in 2004 when she became pregnant. [209] She introduced a bill to ban federal funding of research and publications into transgender health care for minors, asserting that they are being "sexualized and used for horrific sexual research'" when being administered puberty blockers. [126] She alleged in a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland that he was being too lenient toward those who were arrested during the 2020 BLM riots, as compared to the Capitol rioters. "I was a brand-new mom, and I had to make hard decisions on. [88][83] Boebert won the primary with almost 66% of the vote. ", "Immaterial Support: Whiteness, Stings, and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act", "A Republican Lawmaker for Whom the Spectacle Is the Point", "Rep. Lauren Boebert says Twitter account locked until Inauguration Day", "Communications director for gun-toting congresswoman quits", "21 Republicans vote no on bill to award Congressional Gold Medal for January 6 police officers", "Lauren Boebert rips 'partisan games' after her vote against medals for police who responded to Jan. 6 attack", "Boebert demands 'Biden regime' explain alleged unequal treatment of Jan. 6, BLM rioters", "Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters", "Black Lives Matter comparison roils court in Jan. 6 cases", "Two Trump-appointed judges reject comparisons between January 6 and Portland unrest", "U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert pushes to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization", "Boebert Pushing Racist "White Replacement" Voter Conspiracy", "Boebert, Bennet and Hickenlooper outline legislative priorities for 2022", "Rep. Lauren Boebert calls on critical race theory to be banned in schools", "The Brewing Political Battle Over Critical Race Theory", "Lauren Boebert on Her Fully Loaded Campaign Against Scott Tipton", "In ad, lawmaker vows to carry her Glock around D.C. and on Hill", "Republican Lauren Boebert vows to carry handgun to Congress", "Donors gave a House candidate more than $8 million. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's Office Releases April Staff Mobile Office Hours. [80][81] Boebert's attorney said in June that she would file a defamation lawsuit against the group, but she has not done so. [52] But after winning the Republican primary, Boebert denied following QAnon and endorsing conspiracy theories, instead saying she wanted to uphold "freedom and the Constitution of the United States of America". "[155] The Denver Post apologized on Boebert's behalf for her remarks, saying that it was embarrassing that a Colorado representative engaged in such behavior. Boebert talked about her education with Colorado's Durango Herald in September 2020. [26][72] The company told The Daily Beast that Jayson was a contracted shift worker for the company who was not paid directly but through another company, Boebert Consulting. My Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention, and Community Protection Act includes a provision that requires 25% of all forestry revenues from national forests to be reinvested into local communities, including their schools. Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting freshman Republican Colorado congresswoman who ran on a law-and-order platform, has had several dust-ups with police, starting as a teenager. [218][219][220], In late 2022, Boebert told two audiences, "we are in the last of the last days", and that they would have a role in "ushering in the second coming of Jesus". [225], In 2015, Boebert was detained at a music festival for shouting at a group of people arrested for underage drinking, yelling that the arrest was unconstitutional because they had not received Miranda warnings. She Says She Reimbursed The Money", "Lauren Boebert vows to stay her course as she seeks another term in Congress", "Gloves come off in first debate between congressional candidates Don Coram and Lauren Boebert", "Fact check: Democratic group makes multiple false claims in its dramatic allegations about Lauren Boebert's past", "Rep. Lauren Boebert has yet to file defamation suit over claims by American Muckrakers PAC", "Who is David Wheeler? She supports Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him and voted to overturn its results during the Electoral College vote count. [199] She falsely claimed that during the two months that followed the end of the Texas mask mandate, the state did not record any COVID-19-related deaths. The congresswoman was then booed by those attending and heavily criticised on social media by those tuning in at home. [133] During a press conference, she asserted that it was a lie, that it was racist,[134] and that it would lead to children hating each other. She owns a. [45] She accused the incumbent of supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants by voting for H.R. [62], Boebert reimbursed herself $22,259 for mileage costs in 2020 from her campaign's finances, which legally would require her to have driven 38,712mi (62,301km). "[165] She declared support for uranium extraction and the generation of nuclear power, touting it as the "cleanest form of energy". [210] In 2022, she cosponsored two bills widely seen as anti-LGBT legislation. One of the bills, the Access to Baby Formula Act, makes it easier for low-income families to continue buying formula with vouchers; the other allows the government to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed up production. rally opposing Colorado's red flag law, which allows guns to be taken from people deemed a threat. [111] Boebert then told Speaker Nancy Pelosi that her constituents were outside the Capitol and that she had promised to represent their voices in the chamber. [53][54], In September 2019, Boebert aide and future campaign manager Sherronna Bishop published a video on her Facebook page in which she interviewed a self-proclaimed member of the far-right group Proud Boys, which Bishop called "pro-everything that makes America great", adding, "thank God for you guys and the Proud Boys". She is accused of supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory, and some academic and journalistic sources have investigated her ties to far-right extremism. Boebert urged people to dismiss comments about the outlet's unreliability and said the information came from "very good sources". [203] In response, the Campaign for Accountability, an ethics watchdog group, filed a complaint with the House Committee on Ethics and requested an investigation into Boebert and the other lawmakers. [26], Boebert says her first job at a McDonald's restaurant changed her views about whether government assistance is necessary. Those that know her don't care for her and a lot more people know her now.. I enjoy highlighting their achievements through the high school Congressional Art Competition and by nominating CO-03s best and brightest to the U.S. Service Academies. [193] In June 2021, Boebert advised her constituents in Mesa County, who were experiencing an uptick of Delta variant cases at the time, that the "easiest way to make the Delta variant go away is to turn off CNN [and] vote Republican", but has since deleted the tweet amid public criticism. Incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert was heavily favored to defeat Democratic candidate Adam Frisch in the conservative district. The first, introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene, would criminalize providing sex reassignment surgery and other forms of transgender health care to minors; the second was the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, introduced by Mike Johnson, which would prohibit federally-funded institutions from promoting or instructing on LGBT issues or sexual orientation and is widely seen as a national version of Florida Parental Rights in Education Act. ", "Shooters Grill In Rifle Defies Cease-And-Desist Order", "Shooters Grill Moves Tables Outside To Serve Customers After Cease & Desist Order", "Shooters Grill in Rifle has food license suspended, owner says", "Court case against Shooters Grill dismissed, but license still suspended as county, owner negotiate reopening", "A fluke or the future? [132], Boebert has urged for even closer relations between Israel and the United States, saying that their foundings were divinely inspired and that they are the "two nations [in the world] that have been created to glorify God". [30] The next day, Boebert moved tables outside, onto the sidewalk, and in parking spaces. Boebert said that Mitsch Bush's platform was "more government control" and that Mitsch Bush had a "socialist agenda". Lauren Opal Boebert (/bobrt/ BOH-brt; ne Roberts; born December 19, 1986) is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun rights activist[2] serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district. [120] Boebert's communications director resigned on January 16 in response to her behavior on January 6. My bill will help revitalize schools in rural communities and ensure they have the resources to. 5038, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, saying that the act had a provision that led to citizenship and provided funding for housing for undocumented farm workers. [20][21][22] The Boeberts also owned a restaurant called Smokehouse 1776 (now defunct), across the street from Shooters Grill. Boebert, Frisch debate inflation, environment and education ahead of The pro-Trump Republican was supposed to glide to re-election in conservative western Colorado. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-03) announced today that she invites students in grades nine through twelve to participate in the 2022 Congressional Art Competition. Rep. Boebert Introduces Bill to Terminate the Department of Homeland