The “Beetlejuice” incident continues to haunt the once-unrepentant congresswoman from Colorado. The state’s old guard is lining up behind a primary challenger.

At a casino bingo hall in southwestern Colorado, Lauren Boebert, a Republican congresswoman, bounced her 6-month-old grandson on her knee.

“The election’s still a ways away,” she said as the guests arriving for the Montezuma County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner trickled into the room. “And in talking with people at events like this, you know, it seems like there’s a lot of mercy and a lot of grace.”

The month before, Boebert, then in the midst of finalizing a divorce, was caught on a security camera vaping and groping her date shortly before being ejected from a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” at the Buell Theater in Denver for causing a disturbance. The footage contradicted her own initial claims about the incident, and the venue’s statement that Boebert had demanded preferential treatment added to the outrage.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
    59·
    11 months ago

    I wanted to refer to Boebert as “first date handjob in a movie theater” lady but that discounts all her incredibly racist, offensive, terrible shit she said and did for the past five years.

    • paprika@infosec.pub
      25·
      11 months ago

      Republicans will never abandon her for those other terrible things though. It’s like Desantis and his high heel boots. There are so many other reasons to hate the guy… but I guess you have to take what you can get when it comes to republican in-fighting.