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'''Lauren Opal Boebert''', born December 15, 1986 (age {{age|1986|12|15}}), the mother of four and owner of the Shooters Grill in Rifle, [[Colorado]], won the hard-fought 3rd district congressional race against [[Democrat]] and former state lawmaker Diane Mitsch Bush in a Colorado House district that is as large as [[Pennsylvania]] in the 2020 election. Then, in 2022, she won reelection in a close race that her [[Dem]] opponent did not concede until ten days after the election.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrat-frisch-concedes-republican-incumbent-boebert-us-house-election-colorado-2022-11-18/ Republican firebrand Boebert wins House re-election after Democrat concedes], ''Reuters'', Nov 18, 2022</ref>
"I am proud to announce that I am the first mom to represent Colorado’s Third Congressional District," stated Boebert from her restaurant on election night.<ref>[https://nsjonline.com/article/2020/11/republican-lauren-boebert-wins-bitter-colorado-house-race/ Republican Lauren Boebert wins bitter Colorado House race], ''North State Journal '', November 9, 2020</ref>
Before getting elected to Congress, Boebert was a [[gun rights]] advocate. She challenged [[Beto O'Rourke]] at an Aurora town hall meeting during his 2020 presidential campaign, saying, "I was one of the gun-owning Americans who heard you speak regarding your 'Hell yes I'm going to take your AR-15s and AK-47s. Well, I'm here to say hell no you're not.'"<ref>Montanaro, David. [https://www.foxnews.com/media/woman-confronts-beto-gun-confiscation-hell-no Woman confronts Beto on gun confiscation at town hall: 'I'm here to say, hell no you're not'], FOX News, September 20, 2019. Retrieved January 17, 2021.</ref>
She defied a an unconstitutional lockdown in [[Colorado]] on [[Thanksgiving Day]] by declaring her large family get-together to be a funeral for a turkey, and thus within the exemption for funeral services.<ref>Padilla, Anica (November 27, 2020). [https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/11/27/rep-elect-lauren-boebert-holds-turkey-funeral-guests-thanksgiving/ Rep.-Elect Lauren Boebert Holds ‘Turkey Funeral’ With 30 Guests On Thanksgiving]. ''CBS Denver''. Retrieved January 31, 2021.</ref>
On [[Christmas Eve]] 2020 she announced that she would object to the certification of [[Biden]]'s Electors on Jan. 6th.
See: [[Joseph_Biden#Withdrawal|Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal]]
==Criticisms==
On September 10, 2023, Boebert and a male companion were evicted by security during 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 wrote 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. The video, released by the theater to ''The Denver Post'', also showed Boebert and her companion appearing to fondle each other in their seats. Since then, she and particularly her family have been personally targeted and attacked by the Left and fake conservatives on social media, particularly [[Instagram]], with also disgustingly [[Ageism|ageist]] remarks, like attacking her son for becoming father at 17 and Boebert for becoming grandmother at 36, or attacking her husband for apparently "grooming" her when they first dated (she was 17 but it was [[Age of consent|legal age]] at the time and in the state, so "grooming" is inappropriate and out of place, and the age difference wasn't even so high).
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