Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Campaign Gets The State She Represents Wrong
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The campaign of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) mistakenly identified her as a representative of Utah in a report submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday.
“Thanks for reaching out,” a spokesperson for Boebert, Jake Settle, said in response to an inquiry about the Forbes article that first reported on the filing. “I flagged this for our team!”
An earlier version of the report for the campaign’s third quarter of 2021, filed Oct. 15, listed Boebert’s state as Colorado. A revised version was filed Thursday and changed the state and congressional district from Colorado 03 to Utah 03, among other amendments. Following Forbes’ report, the filing was edited again on Friday to say Colorado.
Since her election to the House of Representatives last year, Boebert, a gun-rights advocate and Donald Trump disciple, has routinely made headlines for spreading conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism and bigotry, and for her tendency to self-own, usually when attacking others.
She was named in a Rolling Stone report last week as one of multiple Republican members of Congress who communicated with organizers of the Jan. 6 attack in the weeks before the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a pro-Trump mob seeking to overturn the 2020 election. Boebert has denied any involvement.
Twitter critics did not let the error slide.
Utah says get my name out of your FEC filing Boebert.
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) October 31, 2021
Lauren Boebert’s latest FEC filing says she represents Utah.
She represents Colorado — or at least she’s supposed to.
Maybe Colorado can find someone who actually wants to represent them.— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) October 30, 2021
The GOP’s best and brightest. https://t.co/UtlG7sKe2e
— Dr. John Biggan (@Biggan4Congress) October 30, 2021
“I’ve never seen a candidate misidentify the state they are seeking to represent on an FEC report”#BoboIsAnIdiot and clearly her staff is too. #VoteBluehttps://t.co/YO2K3cawqi
— Dr K 😷 (@DocKimResists) October 30, 2021
Coloradan Lauren Boebert accidentally filed to run for Congress in…Utah
LOL
Going to Qollege instead of college doesn’t equip one with the skills required to function in society.— Lindy Li (@lindyli) October 30, 2021
NEW: Lauren Boebert's (Q-CO) latest FEC filing mistakenly said she represents Utah.
Happy Saturday!— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) October 30, 2021
Yes, it’s pretty hilarious that QAnon terrorist Lauren Boebert as well as her campaign moronically listed in FEC filings that she represents the state of Utah instead of Colorado, but I’m more focused on her needing to be in prison for her role in deadly insurrection.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) October 31, 2021
We don't want her!! Utah can keep her!! Please Utah, keep her, pleeeeeeease!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽https://t.co/dpJ60InkcR
— Alesha Arrington (@aleshadalin) October 30, 2021
Frankly, we’re lucky that this latest crop of fascists is so incredibly incompetenthttps://t.co/R2WN4loxup
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) October 30, 2021
This is what happens when you order your GED from Wish https://t.co/53IVCBsRQP
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) October 30, 2021
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.