Lauren Boebert

Lauren Boebert (2020)

Lauren Opal Boebert (born 15 December 1986) is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun-rights activist from the state of Colorado. A member of the Republican Party, she has served as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district since 2021.

Quotes

• Everything that I’ve heard of Q, I hope that this is real because it only means that America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values
  • Speaking about QAnon in May 2020, cited in "GOP candidate is latest linked to QAnon conspiracy theory" AP News (July 2, 2020)

• I was stuck in their cycle of poverty under their failed policies and I busted out, and glory to God, I am never going back and taking the same message of freedom to everybody.
  • "Lauren Boebert: 2020 Election Is a Choice Between 'Freedom' and 'Government Control' Breitbart (August 14, 2020)

• Madam Speaker, it is my duty under the U.S. Constitution to object to the counting of electoral votes of the state of Arizona. The members who stand here today and accept the results of this concentrated, coordinated, partisan effort by Democrats where every fraudulent vote cancels out the vote of an honest American has sided with the extremist left! The United States Congress needs to make an informed decision and that starts with this objection.
  • "House Debate on Arizona Electoral Challenge, Part 1" C-SPAN (January 6, 2021)

• We already see in Washington, D.C., you can’t petition your government, you’re an insurrectionist if you do that!
  • Speaking at a town hall, cited in "Boebert: Dems Call Those Who Try To Petition Gov’t Insurrectionists" Colorado Times Recorder (March 16, 2021)

• The truth is, they want borders wide open. It helped Democrats take over the entire state of California, and now we're seeing in New York, they're paying 15 grand to illegal immigrants. 15 grand because you came here illegally, you can't make this stuff up. We have to take our country back.
  • Campaign video on Twitter (April 11, 2021)

• Democrats want to teach our children to hate each other. This radical critical race theory brings division, not unity, it advances hate, not love, and puts a person’s skin as more important than the content of their character.
  • Press Release: "Rep. Boebert Condemns Critical Race Theory" (June 8, 2021)

• Why is it that so many who cross the Clinton Crime Syndicate end up dead?
  • Twitter (June 13, 2021)

• They illegally mailed out hundreds of thousands of ballots right in our faces.
  • Speaking at a campaign event, cited in "Lauren Boebert vows to stay her course as she seeks another term in Congress" The Colorado Sun (December 31, 2021)

• The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it. And I am tired of this separation of church and state junk. It's not in the Constitution.
  • "Lauren Boebert told congregation she's 'tired of this separation of church and state junk'" The Denver Post (June 27, 2022)

• We are addressed as 'MAGA extremists,' 'extreme MAGA Republicans,' and I would like to make just a clarification point: it's 'ULTRA-MAGA.' That's what we prefer.
  • "Say what? Archive - Two decades of WTF", The Washington Post (March 2, 2023)

• We need to get voter turnout. I think that all Republicans need to focus on ballot harvesting where it’s legal in Colorado. And, I mean, that’s something that we have to pay attention to or we’re going to continue to be in the mess that we’re in. Democrats chase ballots while we’re chasing voters. And so, I mean, we have to get in the game.
  • "Rep. Lauren Boebert won by only 546 votes last year. She isn’t changing her ways." NBC News (July 17, 2023)

Quotes about

• Why even be in Congress if you don’t believe in doing your job? Just quit and let someone who actually gives a damn do it instead of acting like a useless piece of furniture when babies are shot with AR15s that we let teen boys impulse buy before they can legally have a beer.
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez May 25 2022 on Twitter, commenting on Boebert writing "You cannot legislate away evil."

External links

• Official website