Six out of nine candidates running for the CO-4 house seat have been arrested. When this information came out during a debate, the audience cheered and three candidates high-fived.
Were they arrested because they were in a civil rights protest? Of course not. Why help others when one can get arrested for DWI, or in the case of Lauren Boebert, three arrests and one court summons for petty crimes?
Congressional candidate Lauren Boebert — who often espouses a pro-police, law-and-order message on the campaign trail — has been arrested and summonsed at least four times over the past decade, records show.
While the three arrests and one court-ordered summons were for petty crimes — and in one case all charges were dropped — Boebert’s record is unusually long for a congressional candidate. It has become a campaign issue as the Republican from Rifle competes in a highly anticipated contest against Diane Mitsch Bush in the 3rd Congressional District, which spans western and southern Colorado. (story from 2020)
And then of course she lied about the number of arrests during a televised debate.
The report notes that Boebert admitted to having been arrested only once over "a simple traffic violation that was unpaid," with the Times' Chris Cameron adding, "the local news media have reported at least two additional arrests. In one incident in 2015, Ms. Boebert told police officers who were arresting her that she 'had friends at Fox News' and that the arrest would be national news.”