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LonePirate

(13,426 posts)
1. We really should stop giving oxygen to these LGB moments from the right.
Fri Nov 5, 2021, 08:56 AM
Nov 2021

They use it because it draws attention for them and they think it's cute/funny. Our best response would be simply to ignore it and move on without reacting.

JohnSJ

(92,251 posts)
6. Agreed. Between her, MTG, and other republicans, the are low class scum, and giving them
Fri Nov 5, 2021, 09:16 AM
Nov 2021

this attention is just what they want


2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
2. Who would have imgined that someone...
Fri Nov 5, 2021, 08:56 AM
Nov 2021

Trashier and dumber than caribou barbie would get elected to Congress? Sadly, it's reality for now.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,434 posts)
4. Just wait. There are worse scumbag idiots coming.
Fri Nov 5, 2021, 09:11 AM
Nov 2021

Gatz, Jordan, Boobert, Margie Traitor Green, Screwy Louie. . . .

I remember when Screwy Louie was almost the only one, not that long ago. The fascists have worked out how to get these crackpots into office, and they will be putting even more and stupider useful idiots like them into office in the near future.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
3. Democrats really have to stop letting Republicans troll them.
Fri Nov 5, 2021, 08:56 AM
Nov 2021

Stop giving trolls free publicity.

And does this person really think a congressperson exercising their free speech rights away from the Capitol is an "ethics" issue?

Kid Berwyn

(14,917 posts)
5. Handy Boebert Rap Sheet from struggle4progress...
Fri Nov 5, 2021, 09:12 AM
Nov 2021

“ Trish and I were standing at the snack bar, and she came up and looked at my tattoo on my back, and she pulled down her sock and said, 'look, my is fading,'" she wrote. (The word "tattoo" may have been omitted.) "Then Jayson said 'I have a tattoo on my dick.'"
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/31/lauren-boeberts-husband-did-jail-time-for-lewd-exposure-in-a-bowling-alley-she-was-there/

Boebert failed to disclose her husband's ... jail time for whippin' it out at a bowling alley. The alley dealt with them as a pair, reportedly banning both from the venue.
https://boingboing.net/2021/08/31/husband-of-republican-congresswoman-lauren-boebert-did-jail-time-for-flashing-his-penis-in-a-bowling-alley-and-she-was-with-him-both-were-banned.html

On her educational background, she said she never claimed to have graduated from Rifle High School. “I went to my high school,” she said. “I was a brand-new mom, and I had to make hard decisions on successfully raising my child, or getting to high school biology class. And I chose to take care of my child,” she said.
https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/lauren-boebert-defends-her-past-during-durango-visit/

Claim: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert received her GED diploma a few months before winning election to the House of Representatives.
Rating: True
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/boebert-ged-months-before-election/

Kaydon Boebert had quite a grand welcoming when he entered the world in the front seat of his dad’s pickup truck July 12 with police sirens blaring.
https://www.aspentimes.com/news/oh-baby-this-one-wont-wait/

A Rifle restaurant owned by Colorado congressional candidate Lauren Boebert once had its liquor license temporarily suspended for serving alcohol to an underage (and undercover) Liquor Enforcement Division employee ... In 2015, the same year of her liquor license suspension, Boebert encouraged minors to flee police detention after the children were arrested for drinking at the Country Jam music festival in Grand Junction ... In another instance of disregarding laws pertaining to juveniles, she let a teenage server illegally carry a gun at Shooter’s Grill.
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/10/boebert-ignored-laws-designed-to-protect-juveniles/31944/

Boebert was charged with careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle after rolling her truck into a Garfield County ditch in the summer of 2016 ... Boebert skipped an October court date. She was booked into the Garfield County Jail on the morning of Feb. 13, 2017, for failure to appear ... She later pleaded guilty to the unsafe vehicle charge.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/27/lauren-boebert-arrests-colorado-3rd-mitsch-bush/

80 people got sick ... A food vendor failed to seek a license for its mobile stand at the rodeo ... While the county, which officially took over restaurant inspections from the state just a year ago, has said the food booth wasn’t inspected because of the vendor’s failing, the event was at the county fairgrounds. It wasn’t exactly hidden.
https://www.postindependent.com/news/local/editorial-county-dodged-a-bullet-on-food-poisoning/

Boebert's .. pork sliders allegedly poisoned dozens of people at a local rodeo, making them nauseous and sending some home with bloody diarrhea.
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/14/pork-sliders-sold-by-republican-house-candidate-who-supports-qanon-gave-customers-diarrhea-records/

Garfield County Public Health late Friday suspended the food service license of Shooters Grill in Rifle, after the restaurant continued to serve customers on site in defiance of state public health orders and against a court injunction issued earlier in the week.
https://www.postindependent.com/news/rifles-shooters-grill-closes-food-service-license-suspended-ahead-of-monday-court-hearing/

Source: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216015042#post24

SYFROYH

(34,173 posts)
8. Looks like the twitterverse outrage will give this more exposure than it deserves
Fri Nov 5, 2021, 09:50 AM
Nov 2021


Congressional Ethics Committee action? really?

niyad

(113,413 posts)
11. Lauren, sweetie. Perhaps your stylist did not mention that flounces are not a good
Fri Nov 5, 2021, 08:36 PM
Nov 2021

look for everyone.

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