July 11, 2024 05:09 PM UTC

Lauren Boebert Lies About The Silliest Things

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• by: Colorado Pols

Westword’s Chris Perez reports on the latest brush with the law (that we know of) involving America’s catbird of carpetbagging Rep. Lauren Boebert, who successfully ditched her growing list of professional and personal problems, at least for now, behind the Continental Divide by winning the clown-car CO-04 GOP primary in a blowout.

But on a drive back from the Western Slope on Mother’s Day, it appears the law caught up once again with a speeding Rep. Boebert on Vail Pass:

Earlier this year, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was caught on Vail Pass going 84 miles per hour in a 65 miles per hour zone by Colorado State Patrol, leading to a $174.50 speeding ticket and a scheduled court appearance for July 26 after she failed to pay the fine on time.

The House representative didn’t contact Eagle County District Court until July 3 to finally pay off the May 12 ticket, according to the Clerk to the Court’s office, after finding out she had a court date scheduled this month because she failed to pay.

Obviously, on the grand scale of criminal offenses a speeding ticket doesn’t rate very highly–even though given Boebert’s other traffic troubles in the relatively recent past, her insurance company might well stick Boebert with a rate hike that keeps on giving. But again as is Boebert’s style, this most minor of legal citations was made worse by Boebert’s failure to pay the ticket in a timely manner, resulting in the case being assigned to court.

And that’s where things, once again in Boebert’s inimitable style, got weird in the dishonest sense:

Her press secretary, Drew Sexton, says the newly-elected CD4 Republican nominee had sent a check for the ticket to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), rather than paying it off through the Department of Revenue’s regular online system, which wound up being sent back to her. He said it was unclear why she sent it to CDOT.

Boebert’s press secretary Drew Sexton claims that Boebert sent a check to the Colorado Department of Transportation for some inexplicable reason, and that check was later returned. That’s strange because the ticket would not have directed Boebert to send a check there. Sexton, as readers know, is the same Boebert spokesman who insisted for most of a week that Boebert did not vape, grope, or otherwise carry on at Denver’s Buell Theater last September, so no one should take this guy at his word.

And it’s good Westword’s Chris Perez didn’t, because:

Sexton says Boebert explained her situation to an Eagle County court clerk on July 3 over the phone before paying online, but the clerk who spoke to her tells Westword that the congresswoman made no mention of a check being lost in the mail. [Pols emphasis]

There’s a better-than-even chance that the check Boebert claims to have erroneously sent to CDOT to cover her ticket never existed. If it had, why wouldn’t Boebert have mentioned it to the clerk when she called to belatedly pay the ticket off? We’re hardly talking about the crime of the century here, but once again it’s evidence that Boebert’s first instinct when confronted with evidence of personal irresponsibility is to make stuff up. Like when Boebert claimed the “fog machines” at Beetlejuice created the smoke from her vape pen.

Like we said earlier today, fresh off her improbable comeback from the abyss to win the CO-04 primary, Boebert is feeling liberated and not constrained by the need to appeal beyond her safe Republican base. The voters of CO-04 have given Boebert what she believes to be a clean slate after four of the most tumultuous and scandal-plagued years of any member of Congress from Colorado. But at the end of the day, Boebert is who she is.

The baggage great and small will continue to aggregate.