Lauren Opal Boebert is an American politician, businesswoman, gun-rights activist, and the member-elect to the United States House of Representatives for Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. Boebert owns Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where staff members are encouraged to openly carry firearms. She will be the first woman to represent Colorado’s 3rd Congressional district in Congress. In November 2020, Boebert indicated that she plans to carry a gun while working as a congresswoman on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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Lauren Opal Boebert is an American politician, businesswoman, gun-rights activist, and the member-elect to the United States House of Representatives for Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. Boebert owns Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where staff members are encouraged to openly carry firearms. She will be the first woman to represent Colorado’s 3rd Congressional district in Congress. In November 2020, Boebert indicated that she plans to carry a gun while working as a congresswoman on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. She has expressed support of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory, though she later stated that she was ‘not a follower’ of Q anon. She dropped out of high school her senior year to start her family and to take a management role at a McDonald’s in Rifle. She later got a job filing for a natural gas drilling company and then became a pipeliner, a member of a team who build and maintain pipelines and pumping stations.
Her husband was laid off from his job in 2013, and she and her husband opened a restaurant called Putters on the Rifle Creek Golf Course in 2015. In mid-May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she violated the state’s stay-at-home order by reopening Shooter’s Grill for dine-in service. She received a cease and desist order from Garfield County, but Boebert has said she would not close her business. In September 2019, she became involved in gun rights activism, by challenging Beto O’Rourke at an Aurora, Colorado town hall meeting during his 2020 presidential campaign over his proposal for a gun buyback program, saying ‘Hell, no, you won’t take our guns’ Boebert was born in Altamonte Springs, Florida in 1986. She moved with her family to the Montbello neighborhood of Denver and later to Aurora in 2003.
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