Tag Archives: Lauren Boebert

First, this from the Colorado Newsline: Congressional Republicans on Wednesday night were the victors in an annual charity baseball game against Democrats, 13-12, even as a bitterly divided Congress struggles to pass major legislation this week. There were some feel-good moments, like when President Joe Biden passed out ice cream bars in the dugouts. Biden was inducted into the Congressional …

Newsweek reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert has suggested that rape victims need guns to protect themselves rather than access to abortions. The argument that women who have been raped should have access to an abortion is “wrong,” said Boebert, a gun rights advocate. She suggested that these women simply needed to be armed. “They need love. They need support. They need …

The Denver Post reports: Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert paid rent and utility bills with campaign funds in violation of federal campaign finance laws, new filings with the Federal Election Commission show. The filings, submitted to the FEC on Tuesday, also indicate that Boebert reimbursed her campaign for the $6,650 worth of payments. Representatives for the congresswoman could not immediately …

Axios reports: A majority of the Colorado GOP’s governing committee is expected to vote Saturday to cancel next year’s Republican primaries and opt for an internal process to pick candidates in the 2022 election. The move would prevent 1.8 million unaffiliated voters — a plurality of those registered in Colorado — from casting ballots in the Republican primary elections next …

Kyle Mantyla has the transcript at Right Wing Watch: We cannot take another 18 months, we cannot take another three years of this poor, failed leadership. We are sons and daughters of revolutionaries. They went to battle for a lot less. They took a stand for a lot less. And it’s time we get involved. I need you involved in …

The Denver Post reports: Colorado’s nonpartisan redistricting commission has proposed a congressional map that would create a new swing seat in the northern Denver suburbs and lump conservative firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert into a Boulder-based solidly Democratic seat currently held by liberal Rep. Joe Neguse. The proposal from the commission staff on Friday would rearrange the political geography as part …

The Denver Post reports: Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert’s husband made $478,000 last year working as a consultant for an energy firm, information that was not disclosed during Boebert’s congressional campaign and only reported in her financial disclosure forms filed this week. In paperwork filed with the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the Republican congresswoman reported that her husband, Jayson Boebert, …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was met with immediate backlash after tweeting Monday that “the Taliban are the only people building back better.” The quick fall of the government in Afghanistan has alarmed translators who assisted the U.S., female politicians, and others who have been scrambling to get out of the country for fear of their safety. Boebert currently …

Via press release published by Christian Newswire: The Truth & Liberty Coalition, a nonprofit organization inspiring ordinary people to participate in government, will hold a conference on the campus of Charis Bible College, Sept. 10-11. The conference will empower citizens to influence our state and nation with positive change and biblical values. Founded on the American ideal that government should …

The Huffington Post reports: “We’re here to tell government: ‘We don’t want your benefits. We don’t want your welfare,’” Boebert shouted as she marched back and forth across the stage in Dallas. “Don’t come to us with your Fauci ouchie. Leave us the hell alone!” Ironically, Boebert has talked about her own days on welfare, which eventually led her to …

The Insider reports: The Value In Electing Women Political Action Committee has supported every GOP woman serving in the US House and Senate, with the “intentional exception” of the two Republican freshmen, according to Julie Conway, VIEW PAC’s executive director and a longtime fundraiser and political consultant. Conway said the PAC would not endorse them in 2022, either. “While we …

“There are two nations created for God’s glory – Israel and the United States of America. We stand strongly with Israel. We will not back down until we have everything God has promised us. “We are an army for everything that Jesus has purchased for us and our children, and our children’s children. “It’s not a coincidence that Independence Day …

“My victory in this race is certainly a sign and a wonder, just like God promised. The wisdom of the world is foolishness in God’s sight. “Just like God promised, he said, ‘Here I am,’ Isaiah 8:18 says, ‘Here I am, and the children whom the Lord has given me. We are made for signs and wonder,’ and this victory …

CNN’s Daniel Dale today fact-checks QAnon Rep. Lauren Boebert’s claim that “liberals” are legalizing knowingly spreading HIV. He writes: Boebert’s claim about liberals legalizing knowingly spreading HIV is false. No state has “legalized” the knowing spread of HIV. Some states, including Iowa under a Republican governor in 2014, have reduced some criminal penalties for people who expose or potentially expose …

“I’m really enjoying telling Speaker Pelosi to kiss my mask. [GOP rep] Thomas Massie and I both got warnings, and both of our letters ended up in the same exact place ironically: the trash. “Leftists won’t even listen to the bureaucrats at the CDC, and it just goes to show that this party’s ‘Follow the Science’ slogan is a total …

The Hill reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) displayed a thermal space blanket similar to those distributed to migrants held at detention facilities at the southern border during President Biden’s address to Congress on Wednesday. A spokesperson for Boebert told The Hill that she was trying to highlight the recent surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. “President Biden did not …

Newsweek reports: Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were the only House lawmakers to oppose a bill that would reauthorize the National Marrow Donor Program—a vital service for people who have fatal blood diseases. The TRANSPLANT Act passed the lower chamber in a resounding 415-2 vote late on Thursday night. A further 12 lawmakers did not vote on …

Raw Story reports: Sharp-eyed critics of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) noticed a none-too-subtle change in her decor on Tuesday night after she posted an interview she did with Newsmax on the mass shooting in her state on Monday. In a previous question and answer Zoom session she did weeks ago, she had a full display of her personal armory haphazardly …

The Colorado Times Recorder reports: Congresswoman Lauren Boebert put a Q-flavored cherry atop an already controversial town hall last Monday night, when she claimed to have insider knowledge of a QAnon-linked conspiracy theory promoted by The Epoch Times that secret documents declassified in the final days of the Trump administration will expose wrongdoing by Trump’s enemies and lead to resignations …

The Washington Post reports: We’re often interested in the “origin stories” of politicians — regular lines that they use over and over to explain their political motivations. Boebert is a strong booster of gun rights. She arrived in Congress this year after leveraging her fame as the owner of a restaurant, Shooters Grill of Rifle, Colo., where the wait staff …