Lauren Boebert skipped campaign event after ex-husband threat to toss her stuff in a pond
Kicking off a deep dive into Rep. Lauren Boebert's struggles to move to a new district in an effort to remain in Congress, comes news that she was forced to skip a scheduled campaign event due to threats from her ex-husband, Jayson Boebert.
Adding to the drama of the Colorado Republican who is trying to make inroads with conservative voters in a new district while also dealing with a messy divorce and an 18-year-old son who is facing charges for four separate property theft incidents, the Washington Post is reporting another set-back for the controversial lawmaker.
According to the Post's Ben Terris, in February the GOP lawmaker was slated to appear at a Colorado coffee shop to speak to a local Republican group but was a no-show.
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As Terris wrote, her campaign manager filled in because, "Boebert wasn’t there herself; she was back in her old district, figuring out whether her ex-husband had thrown her belongings into a pond."
"That morning, Boebert had driven to her old house to retrieve the last of her things from a farmhouse on their property, which she’d moved into as their marriage began to fall apart," the report continued. "He still lived in the main house and, according to Boebert, when she called him ahead of her arrival he told her she could find her stuff 'at the bottom of the pond.' That turned out not to be true, but he had removed her stuff and put it into a storage trailer without her consent, she said. Boebert called the police and got a temporary restraining order."
The report adds that Boebert's husband and his lawyers did not respond to questions about the incident.