November 04, 2025 09:57 AM UTC

Stay Classy, Lauren Boebert, Not In Kid Rock's League After All Edition

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• by: Colorado Pols

Colorado’s one-woman cacaphony of controversy Rep. Lauren Boebert’s whole schtick, or at least a large percentage of it, is goading into outrage anyone even slightly to her left with as wild a display of offensive tropes as she can muster with the available props. It’s a race to the cultural bottom we try not to cover on a day-to-day basis, that being exactly what she wants.

But as the Denver Post’s John Aguilar reports, sometimes the intersection of Boebert’s lowbrow antics and the contemporary news obliges a note for the record, at least to remind the world outside the four corners of Colorado that Boebert doesn’t represent either literally or morally the bulk of our great state:

A photo of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert at a Halloween party has drawn criticism over the Colorado congresswoman’s Mexican-themed costume, which included a sombrero, a dress and a sign that made light of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown…

The sign reads: “Mexican Word of the Day: Juicy. Tell me if juicy ICE coming,” an apparent pun on “Tell me if you see ICE coming.” ICE is an acronym for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Standing near her in the photo is a man dressed as an ICE agent.

Needless to say,

The costume drew condemnation from Latino advocacy groups in Colorado.

ABC News adds some color commentary from fellow guests at the party, who didn’t find Boebert’s racially-charged Halloween costume to be funny:

“It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. Even the conservatives [at the party] were in shock. People avoided them,” a person who attended the party said. [Pols emphasis]

After going on five tumultuous years in Congress during which the lesson should have been learned, Lauren Boebert still doesn’t seem to understand that just because a stunt gets clicks and attention doesn’t make it appropriate coming from a member of Congress. Being forced to flee to the state’s most forgiving deep-red congressional district after the Beetlejuice vape-and-grope scandal nearly ended–or at least significantly altered–Boebert’s celebrity trajectory, every day is a new chance for Boebert to swear off the clickbait and focus on the constituents she was elected to serve.

But that didn’t happen this Halloween, and the only news beyond gratuitously offending people appears to be that Boebert has traded down from Kid Rock.