During her primary campaign, she voiced opposition to Colorado's recently enacted red flag law. Heres what we know. Lauren Boebert only won 51 percent of the vote in 2020, and she did not even win her home county, which is very rare. [160] While expressing support for more defense expenditure, Boebert was one of 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022,[161] saying the bill had a "woke agenda". When Biden unilaterally forgave student loans in a last-ditch election year bribe, I stood up for people who worked hard to pay off their student loans or chose a different career path that did not require student debt. Boebert shakes up Colorado district", "5-term Rep. Tipton backed by Trump loses in Colorado primary, upset by businesswoman Lauren Boebert", "The Gun-Toting, Millennial Restaurant Owner Trying to Ride the Covid Backlash to Congress", "Garfield County gun advocates take aim at Aspen's proposed prohibition of deadly weapons in city buildings", "Aspen Council unanimously passes ordinance to ban guns in city buildings", "Colorado Legislators Joined Extremist Groups for a "We Will Not Comply" Rally Against Red Flag Law", "GOP-backed QAnon congressional candidate Lauren Boebert rallied with far-right militia at Colorado gun event", "New Colorado congresswoman has history of associating with militias", "Republican Ties to Extremist Groups Are Under Scrutiny", "Lauren Boebert Questions If Rep. Scott Tipton Is Trump Enough", "Lauren Boebert ran against AOC and the 'squad,' and beat Rep. Scott Tipton in the process", "GOP Congressman Scott Tipton was defeated by right-wing primary challenger Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 3rd congressional district", "Owner of Shooters Grill challenges Tipton in primary", "Republican candidate and owner of gun-toting grill accuses Tipton of supporting amnesty bill", "Restaurant owner gets top line on Republican primary ballot", "National GOP congressional group names Lauren Boebert to 'Young Guns' program", "GOP Candidates Open To QAnon Conspiracy Theory Advance In Congressional Races", "The QAnon supporters winning congressional primaries, explained", "Lauren Boebert, Gun-Rights Activist, Upsets House G.O.P. [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". [74] In September 2021, Boebert submitted documents to the FEC declaring that the campaign money had been used to settle rental and utilities bills, and had since been reimbursed. Boebert says she obtained a concealed carry permit after a man was "beaten to death by another man's hands outside of [her] restaurant", and began encouraging the restaurant's servers to carry guns openly. This resulted in her dropping out to make money for her family. Deputies reported she "encouraged people arrested for underage drinking to break free and repeatedly said she had 'friends at Fox News' who would report on her subsequent 'illegal arrest'". Look at Colorado's 3rd Congressional race", "Boebert rally in Cortez draws dozens concerned about individual liberty", "Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are lone votes against reauthorizing bill to help Leukemia patients", "Why Holocaust comparisons by anti-vaccine activists like RFK Jr. are grossly inaccurate", "Lauren Boebert accuses Dr Fauci of 'bullying' for telling people to 'get over' politics and get vaccinated", "Yes, Lauren Boebert Tweeted That 'Turning Off CNN' was the 'Easiest Way' to Make the Delta Variant Go Away", "Rep. Lauren Boebert threw a mask at a staffer who asked her to wear one, as some GOP lawmakers refused to follow the House's new mask mandate", "Rep. Lauren Boebert rails against mask-wearing mandate in D.C.", "Gardner Joins Maskless, Gun-Toting Boebert in Western Colorado Campaign Stop", "PolitiFact - Texas has recorded COVID deaths since removing its mask mandate thousands of them", "Boebert, Clyde fined for defying House floor mask mandate", "More than a dozen Republicans tell House they can't attend votes due to 'public health emergency.' "[51] The Colorado Times Recorder reported that she followed multiple YouTube channels connected with QAnon before deleting her YouTube account when it came under scrutiny. The first woman, first mother, and youngest ever to represent Colorados 3rd District, Boebert is also an ex-officio steering member on the Republican Study Committee. April 3, 2023. ", "Republican Rift on Ukraine Could Undercut U.S. Appeals to Allies", "PolitiFact - Boebert lacks proof for claim on Hunter Biden's Burisma pay", "Lauren Boebert told congregation she's 'tired of this separation of church and state junk', "H.Con.Res. [11][13] She earned a GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary. [18] Before Boebert and her husband opened Shooter's Grill, he worked in oil and gas fields. "[184][216] Boebert's office asserted she was not expressing support of Christian theocracy. [59] Tipton conceded defeat on election night and Trump congratulated Boebert in a tweet. RT @Disrupt_Corrupt: Lauren Boebert didn't graduate from public or private school. ", "How Lauren Boebert rose from unknown to a candidate for Congress to someone in Donald Trump's orbit", "QAnon-Curious House Candidate Gave Her Customers Diarrhea", "Shooters makes transition from guns to golf clubs", "Affidavit of Transfer and Statement of Compliance", "Colorado's Boebert discloses husband's work for energy firm", "Who is Lauren Boebert, the QAnon sympathizer who won a Republican primary? [11] [12] She dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby. [228], In February 2004, Jayson was arrested and charged for "harassing and physically assaulting" Boebert, and convicted in November 2004, the same year she had her first child. Last year I had the privilege of nominating 15 of some of the Third Districts best and brightest to the U.S. Service Academies. She was there", "Inconsistencies in Rep. 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[179] In August 2021, after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban, Boebert tweeted, "the Taliban are the only people building back better", reusing Biden's "Build Back Better" campaign slogan. The temporary restraining order she obtained on June 23 against David Wheeler, one of its co-founders,[82] was vacated in July and the case dismissed. [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. [90][91] Boebert defeated Frisch by a small margin in a closer than expected race. It's not in the Constitution. These victories, coupled with her leadership of other women on her teamand her dedication to excellence are worthy of Congressional recognition. to prohibit tax dollars for this purpose. [39], Boebert was an organizer of the December 2019 "We Will Not Comply!" 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. The American Patriots Three Percent militia, affiliated with the Three Percenters, provided security, and members of the Proud Boys attended the rally. Unfortunately, Ilhan can't say the same thing. [135], Boebert is a strong advocate for gun rights. Bishop left the Boebert campaign shortly after Boebert won the Republican nomination. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert Announces U.S. Service Academy Nominees for the Class of 2026 Press Release Today, Rep. Lauren Boebert announced the names of the 15 highly-motivated, patriotic, and intelligent students she nominated to attend the U.S. service academies. [120] Boebert's communications director resigned on January 16 in response to her behavior on January 6. I support school choice, because far too often, a child's potential is limited by being trapped in a failing school. Rep. Lauren Boebert Legislative update For decades, Congress used earmarks to buy votes for midnight, trillion-dollar spending bills and other wasteful spending. 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. Getty/Emily Kask Lauren Boebert aims a . [45] She accused the incumbent of supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants by voting for H.R. Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert reacts on 'Fox & Friends' to backlash from her ad saying she will carry a gun in Washington, D.C. However, her campaign succeeded in appealing to independence and rebellion, thus getting the necessary votes. Representative Boebert was raised in a Democrat household on welfare. Representative Boebert is the mother of four boys, ages 10-17. Her senior year of high school, she earned an opportunity to serve as an assistant manager at her local McDonalds. Two of Congresswoman Lauren Boeberts amendments to the Parents Bill of Rights passed the House with unanimous bipartisan consent. March 14, 2022 at 5:03pm. Boebert urged people to dismiss comments about the outlet's unreliability and said the information came from "very good sources". Mocked gender nonconforming and transgender people by tweeting "I identify as non-Bidenary.". . This inflexibility creates big problems. The then-congressional candidate said that she was a "good student" when she attended Rifle High School but. I had to make those connections, and really, I underreported a lot of stuff. ", "Just How Unqualified Is Lauren Boebert, Really? [58], Boebert was the first primary challenger to defeat a sitting U.S. representative in Colorado in 48 years, since Democratic Representative Wayne Aspinall lost to Alan Merson. [112] During a town hall in March, Boebert appeared to defend the January 6 attackers on the Capitol, saying, "We already see in Washington, D.C. You can't petition your government. Colorados Third District has some of the most gifted students in the nation. [99] A U.S. District court denied Buentello a preliminary injunction on June 24, 2021, finding a difference between her official government Twitter account and her personal account. [207][208] She opposes same-sex marriage, writing on her campaign website that she is against "efforts to redefine marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman". The bill would also eliminate the Optional Practical Training program that allows foreign graduates to stay and work in the United States. The previous year she tweeted a similarly unfunny joke: "My pronoun is 'Patriot.'". Democrat Adam . [96] Boebert was one of the people who voiced support for the Freedom Convoy 2022, a Canadian trucker protest seeking to repeal all COVID-19 vaccination mandates and COVID-19 restrictions. [98] She was sued for blocking a constituent, Bri Buentello. [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". Lauren is known to have been hanging out with her future husband by the time she was 17. She responded that she knew someone involved with documents declassified by Trump during the closing days of his presidency, and that the documents would reveal corruption that would trigger resignations that would allow Republicans to retake the House and Senate before 2022, echoing a theory promoted by The Epoch Times. This is the same tired strategy they use to oppose school choice, and I will continue to put our students ahead of politics by standing up to the unions. [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. [11] [13] She earned a GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary. On February 13, 2017, she was arrested and booked in Garfield County Jail for failure to appear in court on these charges. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it. She accused Arizona of "unlawfully amending its voter registration laws by extending the registration periods", alleging widespread voter fraud, which echoed the false claims aired by Donald Trump, and accusing everyone who intended to accept the "results of this concentrated, coordinated, partisan effort by Democrats" of having allied themselves with the extremist left. [152] At a November 20 event, she repeated the elevator story, this time including a Capitol Police officer with "fret all over his face". [26], In 2017, 80 people who attended a Garfield County fair contracted food poisoning after eating pork sliders from a temporary location set up by Shooters Grill and Smokehouse 1776. [194][195] She has also compared the virus to communism. "[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. [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". [60][61] She pledged to join the Freedom Caucus upon taking office. Throughout the pandemic, we saw teachers' unions advocate for unscientific policies that hurt our childrens education for the sake of politics. In addition, a month before her first primary election in 2020, she went to get her GED (General Educational Development) certificate. Request a flag flown over the Capitol. Instead, she. Issues: Standing up for Local Communities Mobile . [71] Boebert oversees the energy industry via her position on the House Committee on Natural Resources. [189], Boebert opposes mitigation policies seeking to reduce COVID-19's spread. We want our kids to learn math and science, not gender studies and woke ideology. During her congressional campaign, she said she was "with the militia". [184], In 2023, Boebert was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. [44] During her campaign, she criticized Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of "The Squad", positioning herself as a conservative alternative to the progressive representative. [103][104][105], On January 3, 2023, at the beginning of the 118th Congress, Boebert voted for Jim Jordan to be the U.S. House Speaker, in rebuke of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. [95], As of January 29, 2022, she had introduced 17 bills and seven resolutions, none of which passed committee. I have cosponsored numerous pieces of legislation to protect our children from critical race theory and woke gender propaganda being taught in our schools. I send my boys to school to receive an education, not indoctrination. [88][83] Boebert won the primary with almost 66% of the vote. In recent months, she has baselessly accused drag queens, trans people and LGBTQ-allied teachers of "grooming" young children. In 2020, US Rep. Lauren Boebert earned a GED diploma just months before she won her seat in the US House of Representatives. A rising figure in conservative Republican circles, Boebert. She has called the vaccine mandates unconstitutional[77] and in particular opposed them for the military. [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. "[121] Democrats, fearing the guns might do harm while in Congress chambers and partly in response to Boebert's conspicuous carry of a firearm, proposed legislation, which is being considered in Congress as of February 2022, to ban guns from Capitol grounds altogether. [71] She also proposed amendments to the Build Back Better Act that would abolish methane-emission payments by fracking companies and others that would increase royalties for oil and gas extraction on federal lands and abolish fines and financial requirements for cleaning abandoned drilling infrastructure. Good luck! Kylees grandmother was a painter, and it is amazing to see Kylee carry that legacy on through her amazing artwork. But the race was so close that a recount was required. And I chose to take care of my child.. [168] She has introduced a forest management bill, the Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act, which would attempt to prevent wildfires through several mitigation measures, such as removing trees killed by bark beetles, making it harder for groups to go to court to stop forest thinning, and requiring the United States Forest Service to harvest sixbillion board foot (14million cubic meters) of lumber annually. [200] She introduced a bill that would ban all mask mandates on federal property and during travel in interstate commerce, attracting no support. Chip in $5, $10 or $25 to make sure that she is defeated in 2024 - this race was so close in 2022 - we can flip it blue! [169][b] Boebert also opposes the participation of the United States in the Paris Agreement, calling it "job-killing", and introduced a bill the day after Biden's inauguration seeking to block re-entrance of the country to the agreement by forcing its ratification in the Senate by a two-thirds supermajority and prohibiting the use of federal funds for reaching the agreement's goals. During the State of the Union address this week, Lauren Boebert interrupted Biden as he talked about the death of his son. Incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert was heavily favored to defeat Democratic candidate Adam Frisch in the conservative district. 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