Lauren Opal Boebert is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun rights activist serving as the US representative for.
99 Facts About Lauren Boebert
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In 2020, Lauren Boebert unexpectedly defeated incumbent representative Scott Tipton in the primary election, after which she beat the Democratic nominee, former state representative Diane Mitsch Bush, in the general election.
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In Congress, Lauren Boebert has associated herself with the conservative Republican Study Committee, the right-wing Freedom Caucus, of which she became the communications chair in January 2022, and the pro-gun Second Amendment Caucus.
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Lauren Boebert won reelection in 2022 by a very narrow margin of 546 votes against former Aspen City Council member Adam Frisch.
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Lauren Boebert's views are broadly considered far-right, but she rejects the label.
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Lauren Boebert is known to be a close ally and supporter of former president Donald Trump.
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Lauren Boebert supports Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him and voted to overturn its results during the Electoral College vote count.
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Lauren Boebert is accused of supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory, and some academic and journalistic sources have investigated her ties to far-right extremism.
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Lauren Boebert was born in Altamonte Springs, Florida, on December 19,1986.
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Lauren Boebert has said that her family depended on welfare when she was growing up.
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Lauren Boebert dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby.
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Lauren Boebert earned a GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary.
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Lauren Boebert has said that she was raised in a Democratic household in a liberal area.
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Lauren Boebert herself registered to vote in 2006, at age 19, as a Democrat; in 2008, she changed her affiliation to Republican.
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In 2015, Lauren Boebert opened Putters restaurant on Rifle Creek Golf Course, which she sold in December 2016.
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In early 2020 Lauren 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.
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The next day, Lauren Boebert moved tables outside, onto the sidewalk, and in parking spaces.
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In September 2019, Lauren Boebert made national headlines when she confronted Beto O'Rourke, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, at an Aurora town hall meeting over his proposal for a buy-back program and a ban on assault-style rifles like AR-15s.
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On Twitter, Lauren Boebert has used rhetoric friendly to the Three Percenters and posed with members of the group.
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In December 2019, Lauren Boebert launched her bid to represent in the United States House of Representatives, beginning with a challenge to five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary.
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Seth Masket, a political science professor at the University of Denver, suggested that Lauren Boebert wanted to motivate Republican voters to participate in the primary during a slow election cycle by stirring up their anger at Ocasio-Cortez and others.
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Lauren Boebert criticized Tipton's voting record, which she said did not reflect his district.
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Lauren Boebert decried what she said was Tipton's insufficient efforts to continue funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, whose money had run out within two weeks, arguing that more was needed.
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In October 2020, Lauren Boebert's campaign denied any connection to the Proud Boys and said Lauren Boebert did not share Bishop's views.
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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Cheri Bustos said in a statement that national Republicans should disavow Lauren Boebert for supporting QAnon.
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Lauren Boebert was the first primary challenger to defeat a sitting US representative in Colorado in 48 years, since Democratic Representative Wayne Aspinall lost to Alan Merson.
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Lauren Boebert pledged to join the Freedom Caucus upon taking office.
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Lauren Boebert said that Mitsch Bush's platform was "more government control" and that Mitsch Bush had a "socialist agenda".
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Lauren Boebert emphasized her devotion to Trump and his policies and reiterated her points about deregulation of industries and decreasing healthcare funding, while rallying for the expansion of gun rights.
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Lauren Boebert's campaign attributed the figure to her "aggressive travel schedule", but members of her campaign did not provide evidence for the amount of travel.
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CPR News calculated that it was plausible that Lauren Boebert had driven 30,000 miles based on her visits to 129 events.
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Lauren Boebert 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.
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Lauren Boebert oversees the energy industry via her position on the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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In September 2021, Lauren 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.
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Lauren Boebert sought a second term representing Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the 2022 election.
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Lauren Boebert aimed to portray him as corrupt, in particular by alleging that he used his powers as a state legislator to pass laws legalizing hemp, which Coram grows, and tried to depict him as not Republican enough.
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Lauren Boebert's campaign had a significant advantage, with $5 million in campaign funds to Coram's $225,000; Coram started campaigning late in the primary, and Lauren Boebert was endorsed by Donald Trump.
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Lauren Boebert repeated claims of massive election fraud and invoked her opposition to the restrictions introduced as a result of the spread of what she called the "Fauci-funded China virus".
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Lauren Boebert supporters failed to throw Coram off the ballot for allegedly not having collected enough signatures.
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Lauren Boebert defeated Frisch by a small margin in a closer than expected race.
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Lauren Boebert was sued for blocking a constituent, Bri Buentello.
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In September 2021, Lauren Boebert submitted a resolution to impeach President Joe Biden and another to impeach Vice President Kamala Harris over the withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan.
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On January 3,2023, at the beginning of the 118th Congress, Lauren Boebert voted for Jim Jordan to be the US House Speaker, in rebuke of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
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Lauren 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.
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In December 2021, Lauren Boebert doubled down on these allegations, saying that hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally mailed to voters, without providing evidence.
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Lauren Boebert voted against the certification of both states' electoral votes.
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Democratic politicians in Colorado accused Lauren Boebert and her colleague Doug Lamborn of "helping incite violence" during the storming of the Capitol.
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Lauren Boebert was accused of endangering members' safety and faced calls to resign, but refused, defending her actions because Pelosi's evacuation was publicly broadcast live on TV; academic Zac Parker opined that it was still a potential security threat since C-SPAN did not focus on Pelosi, and had it not been for Boebert's tweet, the protesters might have not noticed it.
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In June 2021, Lauren Boebert was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the US Capitol.
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Lauren Boebert has equated the behavior of some of the rioters that participated in the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd to those who attacked the Capitol.
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Lauren Boebert 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.
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Lauren Boebert entered a resolution seeking to recognize antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and said BLM would "burn down cities and destroy businesses".
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Lauren Boebert opposes the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would elect the president by popular vote.
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Lauren Boebert has said that one of her top legislative priorities is to eliminate critical race theory from schools, even though it is not taught in Colorado schools.
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On January 1,2021, in a letter co-signed by more than 80 Republicans, Lauren Boebert asked Speaker Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to uphold the 1967 law exempting members of Congress from a Capitol Hill ban on firearms, which allowed them to keep arms in their offices.
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Lauren Boebert called the metal detectors "just another political stunt by Speaker Pelosi".
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In February 2023, after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives mandated that gun owners register any firearms that use "stabilizing braces", Lauren Boebert said the mandate violated the separation of powers.
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Lauren Boebert 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.
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Lauren Boebert urged people to dismiss comments about the outlet's unreliability and said the information came from "very good sources".
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Lauren Boebert has voiced support for the Clinton body count conspiracy theory.
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Lauren Boebert later apologized "to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Representative Omar".
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Four months later, Lauren Boebert confronted a group of Orthodox Jews visiting the Capitol and asked them whether they were on a reconnaissance mission, which left them confused.
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Lauren Boebert later said the remark was made in jest.
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In May 2022, Lauren Boebert was one of nine House members who voted against two bills to alleviate the 2022 shortage of baby formula caused by bacterial contamination.
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In February 2021, Lauren Boebert proposed a bill to ban executive moratoriums on oil and gas leases and permits on some federal lands.
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Lauren Boebert 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.
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Conversely, Lauren Boebert opposes sustainable energy initiatives because she considers green energy unreliable and believes that decreasing the extraction of fossil fuels in her district will "regulate our communities into poverty".
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Lauren Boebert opposes the Green New Deal, claiming it would cost $93 trillion to implement and would bankrupt the country.
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Lauren Boebert 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.
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Lauren Boebert believes that attempts at decarbonization should be made via forest management.
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Lauren Boebert has proposed legislation in the House anchoring the Bureau of Land Management's headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado, which is in the 3rd district.
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Lauren Boebert 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".
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Lauren Boebert was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the authorization of military force against Iraq.
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Lauren Boebert opposes intervention in the escalation of the war tensions between Russia and Ukraine that started in late 2021.
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Lauren Boebert said she intended to introduce a bill that would end financing of legal aid for immigrants.
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Lauren Boebert criticized what she called Biden's failure to contain "a complete invasion at our southern border" and Democrats' preference for open borders that she said had enabled the Democratic electoral takeover of California.
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Lauren 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".
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Lauren Boebert has called the vaccine mandates unconstitutional and in particular opposed them for the military.
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Lauren Boebert compared the federal government's COVID-19 vaccination efforts to "Biden [deploying] his Needle Nazis", and accused Anthony Fauci, who told people to overcome their political opposition and get the COVID-19 vaccine, of bullying.
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Lauren Boebert alleged that there was a deliberate effort to introduce immigrants who would substitute the unvaccinated people.
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In June 2021, Lauren 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.
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Lauren Boebert is a vocal opponent of face mask wearing and argues that masks should be optional.
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Lauren Boebert 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.
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Lauren Boebert introduced a bill that would ban all mask mandates on federal property and during travel in interstate commerce, attracting no support.
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Lauren 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.
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Lauren Boebert received a $500 fine for violating the mask mandate on Congress's premises.
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In June 2022, Lauren Boebert introduced a bill that would classify the opioid fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
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Lauren Boebert opposes the Equality Act, saying it promotes "supremacy of gays" and says transgender women take scholarships and sports opportunities away from non-trans women.
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Lauren Boebert 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".
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In late 2022, Lauren 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".
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Lauren Boebert, who became a born-again Christian in 2009, and her husband Jayson live in Silt, Colorado.
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Lauren Boebert started Boebert Consulting in 2012, receiving US$460,000 in 2019 and US$478,000 in 2020 as a consultant for Terra Energy, a large producer of natural gas in Colorado.
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Lauren Boebert says her first job at a McDonald's restaurant changed her views about whether government assistance is necessary.
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Lauren Boebert has said she became religious while attending a church in Glenwood Springs and volunteered at a local jail for seven years.
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In 2015, Lauren 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.
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Lauren Boebert was cited for misdemeanor disorderly conduct and twice failed to appear in court on the charge.
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In 2016, Lauren Boebert was cited for careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle.
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In 2023, while speaking at a Moms for America event at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Lauren Boebert said that she will become a grandmother at age 36.
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On May 16,2023, Lauren Boebert announced that she had filed for divorce from her husband on May 11, citing "irreconcilable differences".