# Please explain Lauren Boebert **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 15, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163 "2023-09-15T14:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/241 "2023-12-29T14:54:13Z")
District 4 Ballotpedia page. [https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado's\_4th\_Congressional\_District](https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado%27s_4th_Congressional_District) 2022 election > **[Colorado's 4th Congressional District election, 2022](https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado%27s_4th_Congressional_District_election,_2022)** > > Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics They did some calculations and if 2020 had that district line: 39.5% Biden 58.0% Trump So the name Boebert will carry some weight with Trump voters ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/242 "2023-12-29T15:00:40Z")
> [@TeroSunbear](#): > > So the name Boebert will carry some weight with Trump voters Not in my former district. I was redistricted into the new one but let me assure you there are many potential candidates in 4 that make Boebert look like AOC. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/243 "2023-12-29T15:06:12Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > let me assure you there are many potential candidates in 4 that make Boebert look like AOC. Wow, that’s hard to believe. In what way do they surpass Boebert: their overzealous embrace of trumpism, their sheer rank stupidity, or both? Wait, dumb question. If the former applies, the latter is a given. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/244 "2024-01-30T23:49:18Z")
Colorado-4 had its first debate among Republicans running for the House seat. After the debate, they did a straw poll. [Boebert came in fifth.](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4435329-boebert-colorado-district-straw-poll/) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/245 "2024-01-30T23:51:13Z")
![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/nq6C5xO1W0gAAAAC/trombone-pusheen.gif) ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/246 "2024-01-31T00:42:33Z")
> [@anny\_m](#): > > Boebert came in fifth Getting right to the punchline. She received **12** votes out of 89, with something like 40 people abstaining. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/247 "2024-01-31T01:09:45Z")
My favorite part of the debate for the candidate of the party of law and order: > **[GOP Congressional Candidates Make Bizarre Brag At Debate](https://news.yahoo.com/gop-candidates-brag-arrests-during-201322875.html)** > > After six out of nine candidates admitted to run-ins with the law, Rep. Lauren Boebert high-fived fellow candidate Mike Lynch. > The [Republican Party](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party) has long claimed to be “the party of law and order,” but some GOP candidates in Colorado think a criminal record is a bragging point. > > That sad truth was on display Thursday night at [a](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-election-2024-boebert_n_65b3e032e4b077c17ab50c57?9kg)[primary debate in Fort Lupton](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-election-2024-boebert_n_65b3e032e4b077c17ab50c57?9kg), a community in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, when candidates were asked if they had ever been arrested. > > A whopping six out of the nine candidates on the debate stage raised their hands to the audience’s cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/248 "2024-01-31T01:57:19Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > A whopping six out of the nine candidates on the debate stage raised their hands to the audience’s cheers. What the actual F. This is what the GOP has come to? “Yay! We’re criminals! Hurray!” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/249 "2024-01-31T02:01:47Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is what the GOP has come to? “Yay! We’re criminals! Hurray!” Yes. The Republican Party is the criminal party. Being a criminal is a virtue for them now. Hence why the January 6 insurrectionists are brave patriots being persecuted by the Biden administration. So no, Boebert having a criminal record is an asset for her. It gives her street cred for the Rs. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/250 "2024-01-31T10:28:53Z")
It’s a badge of honor for them. I really do feel like the world has turned upside down. I don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/251 "2024-01-31T11:10:02Z")
I think it’s a marker that you’re one of the regular folks who make this country great, and not those elite Ivy Leaguers sipping martinis at cocktail parties. So, not necessarily an endorsement of law breaking, but an acknowledgement that those who get arrested for petty crimes, assault, etc., tend to be members of their tribe. A subtle distinction, I’ll admit. “What are you gonna do? Who doesn’t have a friend or relative who wasn’t arrested? I’ll tell you who: those elite, commie Satan lovers in the Democrat party. Fuck those guys.” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/252 "2024-01-31T12:38:50Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > What are you gonna do? Who doesn’t have a friend or relative who wasn’t arrested? Clever use of the double negative as per the tribe’s dialect, if that was intentional. But, yeah, it’s become a marker of common-folk-ness and of the notion that the Establishment has loaded up on petty(\*) offenses so _“the common man can’t live w/o breaking **some** bull—t law so at any time The Man can make him waste time and money he doesn’t have defending himself and gets a stain on his record anyway”_. Which BTW is not just a perception limited to _that_ demographic. (\* petty to them. The distinction is that for this bunch it includes rioting at the Capitol and gun-toting at no-toting locations, on top of the more generally decried small time drug holding, DUI/driving w/o license/insurance, child support deadbeating, imaginative tax returns, disorderly conduct, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/253 "2024-01-31T13:20:21Z")
I’d offer that this tacit admiration for those with an arrest record has an inherent skin tone clause contained within. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/254 "2024-01-31T14:24:51Z")
Zero Tolerance and Broken Windows Policing is for Them, not Us? Say it ain’t so. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/255 "2024-01-31T14:45:37Z")
It is definitely a class marker. Most of my colleagues in academia have no relatives with jail time. I remember people being quite shocked when I talked about mine. (Though everyone I know who has been to jail merited it.) ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/256 "2024-01-31T14:47:55Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Clever use of the double negative as per the tribe’s dialect, if that was intentional. Nope, just a dummy. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/257 "2024-01-31T20:24:01Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > I think it’s a marker that you’re one of the regular folks who make this country great, and not those elite Ivy Leaguers sipping martinis at cocktail parties. Well, I was arrested once- for a bogus, dismissed instantly by the judge traffic offense which the cops turned into a misdemeanor- so it’s not that rare to be arrested once in your life, Hell, many college kids in the 60’s were arrested for demonstrations, and it was a badge of honor back then- might still be today. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/258 "2024-01-31T20:51:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > and it was a badge of honor back then- might still be today. Yes, context does matter. Arrested for what? “Arrested for demonstrating against cuts to school programs, charges which were dismissed, and the officer in the case disciplined.” V “Arrested for exposing myself in front of children. I’m still not allowed within 100 yards of any school.” ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/259 "2024-01-31T21:30:45Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Yes, context does matter. > > Arrested for what? Littering. AND creating a nuisance. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/260 "2024-01-31T21:57:39Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Littering. AND creating a nuisance. Sounds pretty broad. " Public nuisance is a legal concept that refers to any activity or condition that interferes with the public’s use and enjoyment of a public space. This can include things like excessive noise, **offensive odors** , or unsanitary conditions." Bolding mine. I think I regularly break this law. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163.md?page=14)