Lauren Opal Boebert born December 19, 1986) is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun rights activist serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado’s 3rd congressional district since 2021. From 2013 to 2022, she owned Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where staff members were encouraged to carry firearms openly. A member of the Republican Party, Boebert is known for her gun rights advocacy. In the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado she unexpectedly defeated incumbent Scott Tipton in the primary election and went on to win the general election over Democratic nominee Diane Mitsch Bush, a former state representative. In Congress, 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 Boebert pro-gun Second Amendment Caucus. She won reelection in 2022 by a narrow margin of 546 votes against former Aspen City Council member Adam Frisch.
Lauren Boebert Facts
- Born: Lauren Opal Roberts on December 19, 1986 (age 37) in Altamont Springs, Florida, USA.
- Political : Party Republican (since 2008)
- Spouse : Jason Bobert
- Children : 4
Lauren Boebert Early life
Boebert was born in Altamonte Springs, Florida, on December 19, 1986.When she was 12, she and her family moved to the Montbello neighborhood of Denver and later to Aurora, Boebert Colorado, before settling in Rifle, Colorado, in 2003. Boebert dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby; she earned a GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary.
Boebert has stated that her family depended on welfare when she Boebert was growing up,and that she was raised in a Democratic household in a liberal area. Records at the Colorado secretary of state’s office show that her mother was registered to vote in Colorado as a Republican from 2001 to 2013 and as a Democrat from 2015 to 2020.At age 19, Boebert herself registered to vote in 2006 as a Democrat; in 2008, she changed her affiliation to Republican.
Boebert’s views are broadly considered far-right.She is an ally and supporter of former president Donald Trump. 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. She has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, has “celebrated attacks on the free press”, and some academic and journalistic sources have investigated her ties to far-right extremism. She opposes transitioning to green energy, COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates, abortion, sex education, gender-affirming surgery for minors, and same-sex marriage. She advocates an isolationist foreign policy, Boebert but supports closer ties with Israel for religious reasons. A self-described born-again Christian, Boebert has said that she is “tired of this separation of church and state junk” and argued for greater church power and influence in government decision-making.
According to Boebert, she became religious while attending a church in Glenwood Springs and that she became a born-again Christian in 2009.[20] She has said she volunteered at a local jail for seven years, but attendance logs at the Garfield County Sheriff’s office show that she volunteered at the jail nine times between May 2014 and November 2016
Lauren Boebert Early career
After leaving high school, Boebert took a job as an assistant manager at a McDonald’s in Rifle.She later said that this job changed her views about whether government assistance is necessary. After marrying Jayson Boebert in 2007, she got a job filing for a natural gas drilling company and then became a pipeliner, a member of a team that builds and maintains pipelines and pumping stations.
Lauren Boebert Restaurant ownership
In 2013, Boebert and her husband opened Shooters Grill in Rifle, west of Glenwood Springs, Boebert Colorado. 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.That is mostly false: in 2013, a man who had reportedly engaged in a fight blocks away ran to within about a block of Boebert’s restaurant, fell, and died from a methamphetamine overdose.The Boeberts also owned a restaurant called Smokehouse 1776 (now defunct), across the street from Shooters Grill. In 2015, Boebert opened Putters restaurant on Rifle Creek Golf Course,which she sold in December 2016.] Shooters Grill, according to her congressional disclosure forms, lost $143,000 in 2019 and $226,000 in 2020.
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. The restaurants did not have the required permits to operate the temporary location, and theBoebert Garfield County health department determined that the outbreak was caused by unsafe food handling at the event.
Lauren Boebert Elections
In September 2019, 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. Later that month, she opposed a measure banning guns in city-owned buildings at a meeting of the Aspen City Council. The ordinance passed unanimously a month later.
Boebert was an organizer of the December 2019 “We Will Not Comply!” rally opposing Colorado’s red flag law, which allows guns to be taken from people deemed a threat. The American Patriots Three Percent militia, affiliated with the Three Percenters, provided security, and members of the Proud Boys attended the rally. On Twitter, Boebert has used rhetoric friendly to the Boebert Three Percenters and posed with members of the group (she deleted the tweet with the photos after being asked about it). During her congressional campaign, she said she was “with the militia”.o’s 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, beginning with a challenge to five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary.During her campaign, she criticized Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of “The Squad”, positioning herself as a conservative alternative to the progressive representative. Seth Masket, a political science professor at the University of Denver, suggested that 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.
Boebert criticized Tipton’s voting record, which she said did not reflect his district. Before the primary, Trump endorsed Tipton, but Boebert characterized him as unsupportive of Trump. She accused him of supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants by voting for H.R. 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. Boebert decried what she said were 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.Boebert raised just over $150,000 through the June 30 primary.
In a May 2020 interview on SteelTruth, a QAnon-supporting web show, Boebert Boebert said she was “very familiar with” the conspiracy theory: “Everything I’ve heard of Q, I hope that this is real because it only means America is getting stronger and better.” The Colorado Times Recorder reported that she followed multiple YouTube channels connected with QAnon before deleting her YouTube account when it came under scrutiny. Boebert later distanced herself from QAnon, in a statement where she also endorsed investigations into “deep state activities that undermine” President Trump.
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”. Bishop left the Boebert campaign shortly after Boebert won the Republican nomination. In October 2020, Boebert’s campaign denied any connection to the Proud Boys and said Boebert did not share Bishop’s views.
On June 30, Boebert won the Republican nomination with 54.6% of the vote to Tipton’s 45.4%. The result gained national attention and surprised political commentators. CNN and Politico called it a “stunning upset”The Hill made a similar statement. Tipton conceded defeat on election night and Trump congratulated Boebert in a tweet Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Cheri Bustos said in a statement that national Republicans should disavow Boebert for supporting QAnon.
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. She pledged to join the Freedom Caucus upon taking office.[
Boebert In 2020 Boebert protested orders issued by Colorado Governor Jared Polis to close businesses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-May 2020, she violated the state’s stay-at-home order by reopening Shooters Grill for dine-in service, for which she received a cease and desist order from Garfield County, with which she refused to Boebert comply. The next day, Boebert moved tables outside, onto the sidewalk, and in parking spaces. The following day,Boebert Garfield County suspended her food license.By late May, with the state allowing restaurants to reopen at 50% capacity, the county dropped its temporary restraining order.
Boebert Shooters Grill closed in July 2022, when the building’s new owner opted not to renew the lease.
Lauren Boebert Personal life
After Boebert’s mother, Shawn Roberts Bentz, accused professional wrestler Stan Lane of fathering Boebert, Lane took two paternity tests, first in the 1980s and the second in 2023, which proved that he was not Boebert’s fatherAccording to Boebert: “My mom was 18 when she had me, which inspired me to be a mother when I was 18 years old.”
Boebert lived with her husband, Jayson Boebert, in Silt, Colorado. Boebert They have four sons and one grandson.In February 2004, Jayson was arrested and charged for “harassing and physically assaulting” Boebert, and he was convicted in November 2004, the same year she had her first child. Before and after Boebert and her husband opened Shooters Grill, he worked in oil and gas fields.Jayson registered the company Boebert Consulting LLC in 2012 and “provided drilling services as an on-site drilling foreman” to Terra Energy since 2017.In her 2021 filing with the House of Representatives, Boebert reported her husband’s income as a consultant for Terra Energy at $460,000 in 2019 and $478,000 in 2020.
Boebert 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. Deputies reported she “encouraged people arrested for underage drinking to break free and repeatedly said she had ‘friends at Fox News’ Boebert who would report on her subsequent ‘illegal arrest'”. She was cited for misdemeanor disorderly conduct and twice failed to appear in court on the charge. The charge was later dismissed because the Mesa County district attorney’s office believed there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction if the case went to trial.
In 2016, Boebert was cited for careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle. On February 13, 2017, she was arrested and booked in Garfield County Jail for failure to appear in court on these charges. She pleaded guilty to the unsafe vehicle charge, and the careless driving and failure to appear charges were dismissed.
Boebert On May 16, 2023, Boebert announced that she had filed for divorce from her husband on May 11, citing “irreconcilable differences”.
Boebert On September 10, 2023, Boebert and a male companion were removed by security staff from a performance of the musical Beetlejuice in a theater in Denver, Colorado, after she caused a disturbance by vaping, singing, and recording the performance.Boebert initially Boebert denied having vaped as well as causing a disturbance, writing on social media that she pleaded “guilty to laughing and singing too loud!” After surveillance video footage of the incident was released, she apologized for “[falling] short of her values” and vaping. She said that “she had previously denied it only because she ‘did not recall’ having done so”. The video also showed Boebert’s companion fondling her breasts and Boebert caressing his genitalia while they were in their seats.