Rep. Lauren Boebert - Colorado's Congressional Embarassment

[GreyhoundFan]

I guess they aren’t happy with a carpetbagger.

[GreyhoundFan]

Rep. Crockett has something to say about Boebert. 

[Howl]

This was a straw poll from about 90 people and I think  there are 12 candidates in the primary.   The primary would be perfect for ranked choice voting, but I digress.

At this debate, candidates were queried if they believed the election was "stollen".  Only Boebert and one other candidate raised their hands in the affirmative.  This telegraphs to me that most of the other candidates are actually serious, rather than just performative MAGA wing nuts. 

On the other hand, everyone agreed that illegal immigration was the #1 problem.  And on the OTHER hand, this district is 100% ranch and farmland with no big cities. I'd assume that at least somewhere in the eastern plains of CO,  farmers (and esp. mega corporate farms) are using undocumented workers to harvest crops.  

But Boebert: 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Is she asserting that people in New Mexico are invading Colorado?

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Too funny!

 

[GreyhoundFan]

No big surprise, she is totally against the bipartisan deal. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Math is hard for Boebert. 

[Audrey2]

35 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Math is hard for Boebert. 

And how many of them were the children separated from their parents at the border and put into cages who may have been too young to be able to say their names so now they will never see their parents again?

[Xan]

Boebert must have had someone else take that GED for her.  "There enlies the problem" -- It's "therein lies the problem", Bobo.

[GreyhoundFan]

The latest from the Boebert soap opera. I feel bad for their children. "Lauren Boebert's Ex-Husband Calls Restraining Order "Cruel and Unfair," Says He Wasn't Served"

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Last week, Representative Lauren Boebert filed a temporary restraining order against her ex-husband, Jayson, following a series of headline-grabbing incidents that led to Jayson being criminally charged. The order also covers three of their four children — a punishment that Jayson says is "killing" him.

"I feel what is happening is cruel and unfair," he tells Westword. "It is a prison sentence to keep me from my family."

The restraining order stemmed from three incidents reported to authorities in Garfield County, including one on February 2, when Jayson allegedly entered Lauren's home "without permission" and "claimed in a text message to me that he destroyed personal property," the congresswoman says in the order.

For his part, Jayson claims that "no threats were made" and nothing was damaged, "except for the way [Lauren] left my second home, which I am still repairing for Lauren's Granny to stay in this week." He says the focus of the dispute was a trailer that Lauren wanted to use to move to her new home in Windsor, which is in the 4th Congressional District where she is now running for representative.

"I said she couldn't use my enclosed trailer," Jayson says. "I never saw Lauren that day. We had a brief text conversation where she asked me if she could use the trailer or if her stuff was already in there. In my response, I mentioned that the trailer was too much for her boyfriend and I also requested that her Aspen boyfriend and one of her staff not be on the property."
 

Lauren, who gained international notoriety in September when she got rowdy at a Beetlejuice performance at the Buell with Aspen bar owner (and Democrat) Quinn Gallagher, detailed two other incidents in her motion for the temporary restraining order as reasons for protection. The "most serious" was when Jayson got into an altercation with their eldest son, Tyler, on January 9.

"Jayson assaulted our eighteen-year-old son at his home," Lauren writes in the motion. "He retrieved a firearm and brandished it declaring he was going to kill himself."

The third incident was a fight between Jayson and Lauren at Miner's Claim Restaurant in Silt on January 6. The congresswoman accuses her ex-husband of calling the police on her — "falsely claiming I struck him," she says.

"He told me after the call he wanted me to get bad press," Lauren writes in the motion, adding that Jayson "has made multiple suicidal threats, and threats to harm me over the past fourteen months."

Jayson denies making any threats to Lauren and says he's "unsure" why she would say such things.

"I don't know," he says. "I am stronger today than I have ever been in my entire life. I have been tried and tested through some very difficult times in life. I have never given up on anything. I have lived homeless and without hope in my earlier years. I have been hurt by the person closest to me, belittled and made to feel unimportant. I have been crucified by the media without the opportunity to rectify any accusations. I have been financially destroyed many times and I still carry a smile on my face and keep going because I still believe it gets better."

Jayson tells Westword that it "only makes sense" that Lauren, who currently represents the 3rd Congressional District, filed for the restraining order as "a way for justification of a district swap" to the CD4 race late last year  — and that she's tearing apart their family in the process.

"One of the reasons Lauren and I had argued on the night of January 6 was because of the move to the 4th, and her never seeing the boys," he says, adding that the children "hope the best for their mother and will support her decisions." But the district swap is still hard on them, he says, and putting a restraining order on top of it all is an even bigger strain.

"My boys love her, and this is going to become difficult and sad," Jayson says. "It is frustrating that over the last four years she has not participated as being a mother or a member of our family, and now her move would separate the boys from her more."

Lauren Boebert's press team declined to comment on the restraining order or Jayson's response.

Lauren and Jayson Boebert are both due in Garfield County Court on Thursday, February 8, for a permanent restraining order hearing, but there's a problem: Jayson was never served the temporary restraining order by GCSO deputies.

"We have nothing for a return of service," Garfield County Court of Clerk Dawn Garey says. "We usually get these documents that are a return of service and that serves as proof that he was served. I don't see that."

Jayson confirms that he wasn't aware of the restraining order until an Associated Press reporter reached him on February 5 and asked for a statement. "I saw on my cameras that the Garfield County deputies were trespassing on the property with signs and a locked gate, holding papers. I do not know the reason why," Jayson says. "I have not been served with any legal documents."

Until a restraining order is served, "it's just a piece of paper" and can't be enforced, Garey says. As a result, Jayson technically doesn't have to attend tomorrow's permanent restraining order hearing unless he is served.

According to Garey, if Jayson is served and the order is granted, he could be legally barred from having contact with Lauren and the three children named in the order. He could also be required to stay at least 100 yards away from them at all times. But the parties could also ask for more time, in which case the temporary order would remain in force.

"The thought of losing the boys will change a lot of future decisions," Jayson says. He and Lauren finalized their divorce last October after eighteen years of marriage, but custody arrangements were never made public.

"She knows how much this will hurt me," Jayson says. "I am terrified. I want to see my boys continue growing up. Missing football games, baseball game, and basketball games. This is so ugly, the direction this family has headed. I don't think she realizes the gravity of what she has done."

Jayson is currently facing charges of assault, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and obstructing a peace officer in relation to the two January incidents. The Garfield County Sheriff's Office was notified about the February 2 altercation, but an arrest was not made.
 

"My house has never been so quiet," Jayson says of his life right now. "She has kept the boys away from me, and it's killing me inside. I have been their everything for the last four years — and in a second, they are gone. I just wonder, when will it stop?"

Who will watch the boys if Lauren Boebert wins the CD4 race and is either in Windsor — three hours away from Silt — or back in Washington, D.C., throughout much of the year? "Nobody knows," Jayson responds. "You will have to ask Lauren about who will watch them. Like I said earlier about January 6 night, I didn't like the idea of her moving so far away from the boys."

During the January 25 CD4 Republican primary debate, Lauren claimed she moved to the Eastern Plains district because she and her children "needed a fresh start. ...That's been very public, of what home life looked like. And I'm sorry to bring that up — I've tried to put it into a very pretty package and bring my ex-husband lots of honor. But since there is nothing private about my personal life, it is out there. And my boys need some freedom from what's been going on. And this move is the right move for me and for them."

According to Jayson, Lauren had "already planned that she was going to move" before the latest incidents, and points out what people — including her GOP rivals — have been saying about the incumbent being too scared to run again in CD3, "Such a good way to deflect what people are saying about why she left," Jayson blasts.

But he avoids mentioning the 911 call their eldest son, Tyler, made in December 2022, months before the divorce filing — and nearly a year before Lauren announced her district switch.

"I should have just let her use the trailer," Jayson admits.

Lauren and Jayson aren't the only Boeberts with court dates. Son Tyler was due in court on February 6 for a child support case involving the teenage mother of his child. But since "the parties" couldn't make it, it was pushed back to April, according to the court clerk's office. Tyler was eighteen when the baby was born last spring; the mother was a minor when the child support case was filed.

"Tyler and [the mother] have been working things out," Jayson says. "I am really grateful for this. I am unsure what Lauren is participating in. If our son asked for help, I am sure we would both do whatever we could."

Jayson compares his relationship with Lauren to the plot of Hancock, a popular Will Smith movie that centers on two aliens who are connected by their volatile past.

"There is a local joke going around town that Lauren and I are like the movie Hancock: two people destined to be with each other," Jayson says. "In the movie, they become separated and anytime they get close to each other, a nasty storm forms and the jiffy pop starts popping. I think it fits well. I would imagine the world sees two people that are better off away from each other."

Will life be better without Lauren?

"I feel that during a time like this, we have a choice," he says. "We can either become better than we once were or allow a moment like this to be our destruction. I have learned a lot from this time alone and have chosen to see it as an opportunity to grow. I agree that I see more opportunities for self-reflection than I would as a couple. Now the only thing that can stop me from my dreams is myself."

 

[Ozlsn]

On 2/8/2024 at 12:25 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

"There is a local joke going around town that Lauren and I are like the movie Hancock: two people destined to be with each other," Jayson says. "In the movie, they become separated and anytime they get close to each other, a nasty storm forms and the jiffy pop starts popping. I think it fits well. I would imagine the world sees two people that are better off away from each other."

Unfortunately they procreated and are now stuck with having to deal with each other.  It would be good if one or both would get some therapy, grow the hell up and start acting like an adult in the relationship.

[GreyhoundFan]

I hope she is out of Congress soon. I’m sure Faux, Newsmax, or OAN will hire her to bleat endlessly.

 

[thoughtful]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I’m sure Faux, Newsmax, or OAN will hire her to bleat endlessly.

It would be part of their inclusion program - she is a brunette, after all.

[Alisamer]

4 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I hope she is out of Congress soon. I’m sure Faux, Newsmax, or OAN will hire her to bleat endlessly.

 

If people who support Trump think she's a lowlife... wow.

She really is the sort of person that 30 years ago people would have laughed at if she'd suggested being a politician and being in congress, though. "Don't you have to be smart to do that?" they'd have asked, along with "Shouldn't you get your own life in order first?" and "I'm not sure you have the personality for that, dear."

I really think the founders of the US would be aghast at many of the people who are in congress today. If they'd have had any clue they'd have put in some minimum educational mandates or required passing a civics test at a certain level, or something.

[Ozlsn]

14 hours ago, Alisamer said:

I really think the founders of the US would be aghast at many of the people who are in congress today. If they'd have had any clue they'd have put in some minimum educational mandates or required passing a civics test at a certain level, or something.

They never really envisioned anyone not like themselves being there - white, higher income if not wealthy and educated to a higher level than most. I could see them putting in requirements around minimum income required for starters.

[Alisamer]

8 hours ago, Ozlsn said:

They never really envisioned anyone not like themselves being there - white, higher income if not wealthy and educated to a higher level than most. I could see them putting in requirements around minimum income required for starters.

I agree. They expected life to always be like it had always been for them (never mind the whole "we just started a new country" changes going on) - the ones in power were white, well connected, well educated, likely landowners and/or wealthy - or who came from wealth and maintained the status that came with it. The poor wouldn't have had the free time, access to education, access to information, ability to network with other leaders including royalty, or literacy to even consider being a part of government beyond maybe a small local position. 

I think it's important to remember in their day, to negotiate with another country's government might well mean attending at a royal court, which meant a good understanding of the social requirements and intricacies of that was necessary. Government leaders had to have connections or the ability to make those connections. Being well educated and well read was a necessity, and speaking a little French would have been of huge benefit as well. Lincoln would have been a shocker to them, much less Lauren Boebert!

I think in their day it likely would have been a requirement about the amount of land owned and/or income, I imagine. To accommodate the land-rich and the money-rich and those who were both. That would have covered the education requirements as well,  in most cases - those with status and those who wanted to gain that status would have been in the upper circles of society and would have been educated appropriately.

They'd have had their minds blown with the ability to talk in real time to anyone anywhere on the planet, and to travel to nearly anywhere on the planet within a day or so. The thought that someone poor might not only have access to nearly unlimited information but also have the literacy to consume it wouldn't have ever crossed their minds. 

[Howl]

I've seen tweets recently referring to Boebert as #thenotoriousGED.  

Boebert had a shtick that got her elected in Colorado's District 3 (64.75% rural, 35.25% urban).  This includes most of the west side of Colorado, wraps around the bottom of the state, and then picks up Pueblo on the east side.   It's a big mix of poor mountain towns, mega wealthy ski towns (Telluride, Vail, Aspen), old time rural residents, extreme conservatives, and so on. People figured her out in the last election, which she won by less than 600 votes. 

She's trying to carpet bag over into Dist. 4.  IMO,  Zero chance she'll make it through a crowded primary in June, which will send her into a Palin-esque has-been limbo. 

[Audrey2]

12 hours ago, Howl said:

I've seen tweets recently referring to Boebert as #thenotoriousGED.  

Boebert had a shtick that got her elected in Colorado's District 3 (64.75% rural, 35.25% urban).  This includes most of the west side of Colorado, wraps around the bottom of the state, and then picks up Pueblo on the east side.   It's a big mix of poor mountain towns, mega wealthy ski towns (Telluride, Vail, Aspen), old time rural residents, extreme conservatives, and so on. People figured her out in the last election, which she won by less than 600 votes. 

She's trying to carpet bag over into Dist. 4.  IMO,  Zero chance she'll make it through a crowded primary in June, which will send her into a Palin-esque has-been limbo. 

From your lips to God's ears. May Bobert be back to having to work and earn a living on her own.

[GreyhoundFan]

13 hours ago, Audrey2 said:

From your lips to God's ears. May Bobert be back to having to work and earn a living on her own.

With her skills, she’ll probably end up on public assistance. I can’t imagine any decent company hiring her. 

[GreyhoundFan]

I just flashed back to Clinton saying, “I did not have sex with that woman.”

 

[SPHASH]

Tyler Boebert the teen daddy has been arrested 

 

 

[CTRLZero]

Re: Tyler Boebert - here’s a little more (excerpt from NBC news article):

The 18-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was arrested Tuesday after a “recent string of vehicle trespass and property thefts” in Rifle, Colorado, according to police.

Tyler Jay Boebert faces felony counts of criminal possession of identification documents, conspiracy to commit a felony, and more than 15 additional misdemeanor and petty offenses, the Rifle Police Department said in a Facebook post.

Edited February 28 by CTRLZero
Family values…

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[libgirl2]

I heard something to do with a minor as well. What a joke she and her whole family are. She needs to be gone.