UPDATE #2: The Denver Post’s Megan Schrader tracked down one of the theatergoers affected by Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bad behavior leading to Boebert getting escorted out of the Buell Theater in Denver Sunday night. You’ve got to read this to believe it:
“These people in front of us were outrageous. I’ve never seen anyone act like that before,” the woman, who lives in Denver and is in her 30s, said. It wasn’t until later during the play that someone informed her that the misbehaving theatergoer was, in fact, Boebert, a member of Congress.
The woman says Boebert took multiple long videos during the first half of the performance. When she asked Boebert to stop vaping, the congresswoman simply said “no,” the woman said. [Pols emphasis] Boebert was also kissing the man she was with, and singing along loudly with her hands in the air, the woman said.
“At intermission, I asked, ‘Are there any other seats available? Can we sit somewhere else?’” the woman said. “The usher said, ‘You’re not the first complaint we had.’ ”
When the woman returned with her husband to their seats, she said Boebert called her a “sad and miserable person.”
At 2:33 in the surveillance video posted by 9NEWS below, you can see Rep. Boebert’s date attempting to comfort one of the ushers escorting Boebert out while Boebert berates them. The account of the woman interviewed by Megan Schrader also appears to feature this gentleman clumsily trying to make amends for Boebert’s rudeness just before they were booted from the venue:
“The guy she was with offered to buy me and my husband cocktails. I’m pregnant!” she said. [Pols emphasis]
We were closing in on something like pity for Boebert’s companion before we read this, though there’s an argument that after this date from hell the man has been punished enough. This story also corroborates initial reports about vaping in the theater, and who was doing it. Now that #BeetleBert is a global sensation, other witnesses are going to come forward to tell their stories.
And Boebert has a track record of lying about stuff.
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UPDATE: When even indicted Trump attorney Jenna Ellis is dunking on you, you’re having a bad day:
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Local news headlines this morning are dominated by coverage of an incident Sunday at Denver’s Buell Theater, in which a reportedly combative Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a performance of the new Beetlejuice musical adaptation by security after causing repeated “disturbances”–the details of which remain in dispute as of this writing. The Denver Post’s John Aguilar reported first yesterday afternoon:
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance.
In an incident report shared with The Denver Post on Tuesday afternoon, officials with Denver Arts & Venues wrote that two patrons were asked to leave the city-owned Buell Theatre during the performance of the touring Broadway show. They previously were issued a warning during the intermission regarding behavior that prompted three complaints from other theatergoers, the report says.
Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog recaps the incident report:
According to a Buell incident report, theater staff received three complaints that the two patrons had been “vaping, singing, causing a disturbance.” The two “were argumentative” and insisted they were responding to the performance the same as surrounding audience members after ushers told them that they “need to be respectful to their neighbors” and that they would be asked to leave if there were more complaints.
About five minutes into the second act, following the intermission, Buell staff received another complaint about Boebert and her companion, this time alleging they were “being loud” and using a recording device. When an usher asked to speak with them outside the theater, they refused to leave and repeated their refusal after being told they would be trespassing.
“I told them I would (be) going to get Denver Police. They said go get them,” the Buell staffer wrote in the incident report. [Pols emphasis]
As our readers know very well, Lauren Boebert is no stranger to being, as they say in the nightlife business, “86ed” from an establishment for bad behavior. In 2015, Boebert was handcuffed and detained at the Country Jam concert in Mesa County after Boebert confronted officers and allegedly “encouraged people arrested for underage drinking to break free.” Boebert then informed officers that she has “friends at Fox News” who would take journalistic revenge if they learned how Boebert was being treated. And of course, there was the incident involving Jayson Boebert whipping out his unnaturally large “thumb” in 2004 that got him banned from a local bowling alley.
Well folks, it appears that Boebert hasn’t gotten any better at handling these situations:
The report said after the two patrons were escorted out and reached the building’s vestibule, they resisted leaving and said “stuff like ‘do you know who I am,’ ‘I am on the board’ (and) ‘I will be contacting the mayor.’ ” [Pols emphasis]
So first of all, the idea that Lauren Boebert has some kind of influence over Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston with which to exact revenge on ushers at the Buell Theater is ludicrous. Like the Wicked Witch of the West in Munchkinland, Boebert has no power in the Mile High City. But her empty threats to use her position as a member of Congress to retaliate against employees who are just trying to do their jobs and ensure that everyone who buys a ridiculously overpriced ticket to see Beetlejuice has a good time are totally unacceptable. It’s not okay to “pull rank” in this situation any more than it is for a lawmaker stopped for a DUI.
Boebert’s staff reportedly denied the allegation that either she or her date were vaping in the theater, and claimed that they were not being any more disruptive than their neighbors. The only possible explanation in that event would be that Boebert was somehow singled out for mistreatment, and we don’t believe that for a minute. It’s much more believable, given Boebert’s long history of exactly this kind of bad behavior, that Boebert not only richly earned her early exit from the theater but also threatened to retaliate afterward against security invoking her status as a member of Congress.
As for the allegations of “vaping” or being otherwise intoxicated? One has to wonder how much inebriant it takes to twirl away carefree (above right) after being booted from a theater for making a scene. With that said, we weren’t there with a breathalyzer.
But from the State of the Union to Beetlejuice, the moral of the story sems to be that you can’t take Lauren Boebert anywhere. We’ve all known someone like Boebert in our lives, and (hopefully) you learned not to party with them without criminal charges of your own.
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Still not the worst politically-related thing to happen in an American theater, but it's got to be top-25 or something.
When even indicted Trump attorney AND FLORIDA RESIDENT Jenna Ellis is dunking on you, you’re having a bad day:
I wonder if any of the multitude of irritated theater goers who witnessed this will come forward and corroborate the story. Boebert is indeed a worthless POS.
Best question is who is the purse carrier? Paid cash up front or 1/3 up front for materials and the last 2/3 after performance? Married (formerly married)?
This incident solved the mystery of who Boebert is dating.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12513549/Lauren-Boebert-mystery-man-revealed-DEMOCRAT-bar-owner-Quinn-Gallagher-secretly-dating-month.html
Wonder how big Quinn Gallagher's thumb is?
I wonder who should be more shocked by this. Democrats looking at Quinn Gallagher like, "you're a Democrat, what are you doing with this stupid Nazi bitch?" Or butthurt MAGAts who realize she eschewed them to date a Dem.
A "DEMOCRAT" bar owner who hosted a drag show at his bar. https://www.meidastouch.com/news/lauren-boeberts-theater-date-hosted-a-drag-show-at-his-bar
"The horror, the horror."
Who knew she'd go for a dude that's so, what's that word? Oh yes "WOKE".
If there was a GoFundMe account for the ushers who kicked her sorry ass out, I'd contribute to it!
Please tell me they didn't lose their jobs for doing their jobs.
I can't imagine DCPA ushers caring who anyone is.
lol
"Do you know who I am?!" is exactly what Sarah Palin said during that drunken snowbilly brawl the Palin family got into a number of years back.
You can dress her up but you can't take her out in public …..
lipstick, pig, etc.
And the stunt in the theater was around the same time that Politico did a fluff piece on her developing RINO-ish tendencies …..
Lauren Boebert ditches her MAGA brand in Colorado – POLITICO
I like that all the photos of her in her district are at programs brought to us by socialist thinking:
* Water Authority
* Community Center
* County Ambulance Station
Yep. All these things exist because socialism works better for some things.
Also I'm very curious why the author of the article talked to former Colorado GOP Chair, KBB, and not current Colorado GOP Chair, Dave Williams.
This was a good attempt at trying to rebrand Boebert. It fails to rebrand her because, well she's failed to change.
It does not appear to me that "date guy" is trying to comfort an usher. Perhaps he's trying to push him away while Beetlebert adjusts her ill-fitting dress.
She does look, as my grandmother always said, “melted and poured into it”, doesn’t she?
Probably nobody on this thread should miss Trae Crowder's take on the whole thing, especially LBIAWPOS who might be able to claim royalties:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1702043448906539258
Who paid for her boob job?
Enquiring minds want to know…
You gotta believe it was you and me.
Twern’t Jayson, I’ll wager.😏
The “enhanced” cleavage showed up when Boebert was still trying to be a model, years before she became a political figure.
Shame nobody did blood tests. Beetlebert was probably juiced based on her behavior.