All posts tagged "Colorado"

A Colorado Republican’s embarrassing night out is getting a second life on voters’ screens as she fights for reelection.

A renewable energy super PAC has launched ads reminding voters that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was thrown out of a 2023 performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” after complaints about her behavior, The Daily Beast reported Friday.

The spots, paid for by the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition, run a news anchor’s narration over grainy surveillance video from inside the theater. “She and her companion, explicitly groping each other repeatedly,” the narrator says....

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) finally filed her overdue financial disclosure this week, capping a rough stretch for the Colorado Republican, and one veteran money-and-politics reporter says it shows she's "broke."

Boebert filed the report Thursday, two days after The Washington Sun reported she had missed her deadline. It lists no assets and a single liability: a personal loan of between $10,000 and $15,000 from Congressional Credit Union, taken out in January 2024. Members of Congress earn a base salary of $174,000.

"It indicates she's broke," investigative journalist Dave Levinthal wrote on X. Denver 9NEWS anchor Kyle Clark reshared the post....

Update: Lauren Boebert's office said Sunday that there is "zero truth" in the allegations, and added that, under House rules, the complaint should not be investigated. "Under House Committee on Ethics Rule 15, a complaint may not be filed within 60 days of an election in which the Member is a candidate. This filing was submitted inside that window. The Committee is required to return it," her office stated.

An explosive sworn complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee alleges Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) carried on a sexual relationship with her district director in the office, in a car and in campaign-paid hotel rooms — and that roughly $200,000 changed hands when the staffer threatened to go to the committee.

The complaint says that after Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff left the office and told Boebert she intended to file an ethics complaint, a payment of about $200,000 followed in March 2025. Its author says he does not know where the money came from, and the passage describing how he verified the payment is redacted in the published version....

A conservative advocate had her own words thrown back at her as she went after a local journalist on social media.

In a post on X, Colorado political figure Erin Lee went after local journalist Kyle Clark for quoting her, which led to Clark posting a video of her calling for kids to be "covered in the blood of Jesus."

Lee is the founder of Protect Kids Colorado, which has led state ballot initiatives to restrict participation in school sports and access to gender-affirming surgeries, according to reporting by Colorado Newsline. On Friday, she posted on X that Clark, a veteran news anchor, "has put out stories that I am a cult leader who covers children in blood."...

A local journalist swiftly fact-checked a Piers Morgan interview with a MAGA gubernatorial candidate known for making bizarre claims.

On Tuesday, Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx was featured in an hour-long interview on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," where he defended his claim that he was forced to kill a man, behead a cat, and has a demon-sniffing dog.

However, veteran Colorado journalist Kyle Clark quickly stepped in to fact-check the interview a few hours after it was published on YouTube. Clark was the journalist whose interview with Marx was featured nationally because he pressed Marx's claim about killing a man and asked how many people Marx had killed, to which he responded: "Does it matter?"...

A controversial MAGA gubernatorial candidate had to defend his contentious and wild story during a heated interview with Piers Morgan.

During an interview on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" that was posted on Tuesday, Colorado GOP candidate Victor Marx found himself detailing what Morgan called "probably the most contentious story" from Marx, which was that he was forced to kill a man at the age of seven. Morgan insisted that the story didn't make much sense and asked if Marx would open an investigation if he became Colorado's next governor.

According to Marx, his abusive stepfather forced him to kill a man at the age of seven, but Morgan noted, "Local law enforcement and sheriffs in the [Louisiana] area where this event apparently took place have said there are no records, police reports, or unsolved homicides matching your account."...