Lauren Boebert launched into a pity party during a radio interview in Colorado, complaining that her antics during a performance of Beetlejuice were shared with the public.
“As far as [opposition] research, I am very clearly an open book,” she told KHOW’s Dan Caplis Show in Denver.
“And I can’t even go to a theater without that being, you know, broadcast to the world.”
Her comments referred to a visit to the Buell Theater in Denver in September last year at which she quarreled with other theatergoers who complained about her vaping, and then groped her date as he sat in the seat next to her.
She was thrown out of the theater by staff.
She initially denied it, with her spokesperson issuing the statement: “I can confirm the stunning and salacious rumors: in her personal time, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is indeed a supporter of the performing arts (gasp!) and, to the dismay of a select few, enthusiastically enjoyed a weekend performance of ‘Beetlejuice.’”
But she apologized after theater security camera footage showing the incident was released.
Boebert has recently taken to joking about it on the campaign trail.
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Boebert is currently fighting to win the GOP primary to represent Colorado’s 4th District, made available by the resignation of Ken Buck (R-CO). She moved from her current district because of an expected tough competition — mademore difficult by the Beetlejuice scandal.
She also used her radio station appearance to attack the retiring candidate she aims to replace.
“Ken Buck is, so irrelevant and such an embarrassment to Colorado,” she said.
“You know, people ask me about Ken Buck as well, and mostly it’s, why does he hate America?”