Lauren Boebert clocked at 19 mph over speed limit and now faces court date: report

Colorado's carpetbagging firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert was busted on Mother's Day speeding nearly 20 mph over the speed limit in the Rocky Mountains, then failed to pay a $174 ticket on time.

That's according to Westword, which reported Thursday that Boebert received the ticket May 12 but didn't pay it until July 3. She was driving a black Mazda CX-50 and clocked at 84 mph in a 65 mph zone on Interstate 70.

Now, she has to appear in court July 26.

"Tickets that aren't paid to the state before their twenty-day deadline, they'll get sent to the court," an Eagle County District Court clerk told the digital news outlet. "Her case got forwarded to the court, we opened a case, and she took a standard plea offer."

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Drew Sexton, Boebert's press secretary, told the outlet that she cut a check to the Revenue Department instead of paying through the regular online system, and the check was returned to her.

Boebert is coming off a Republican primary election win in the right-leaning Congressional District 4, which she moved to earlier this year.

In the last year, Boebert also generated headlines for a visit to the Buell Theater in Denver at which she quarreled with other theatergoers who complained about her vaping, and then fondled her date as he sat in the seat next to her. In that incident, she was thrown out of the theater by staff.

In June, Boebert found herself on her heels during a debate among candidates seeking the House seat, pressing her about her lies about the Beetlejuice groping theater scandal.

The contentious back and forth between Channel 9's Kyle Clark and the controversial GOP lawmaker ended with him ignoring her personal attacks on him as he moved on to other candidates who stood by and watched the squabble.