Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) introduced herself to her new would-be constituents with a joke about her public lewdness caught on video at a theater.
The Colorado Republican decided to avoid a tough re-election battle in her current district, which she barely won in 2022, and moved to a more conservative district across the state from her home, and she tried to make light of the baggage she carried with her in an introductory event, reported Newsweek.
"Many of you known who I am," Boebert told Baca County Republicans on Jan. 5. "I don't have to ask like the ushers at the Buell Theater."
Boebert and her date were asked to leave a September performance of "Beetlejuice" at the Denver theater after they were caught groping one another on surveillance cameras and vaping, and she was seen raising her middle finger to employees as she left, while theater employees say she asked them whether they knew her name.
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The congresswoman initially denied vaping and misbehaving at the performance, but she eventually apologized after the surveillance video clearly confirmed employee allegations.
"I genuinely did not recall vaping that evening when I discussed the night's events with my campaign manager," she said at the time. "We do understand the nature of how this looks."
Boebert became the subject of a police investigation after officers were called to a restaurant in Silt, where her ex-husband claimed she punched him – although the congresswoman denies the allegation and her former spouse has said he does not want her to be charged.
"I don't want nothing to happen," Jayson Boebert said. "Her (sic) and I were working through a difficult conversation."
