“Lauren Boebert, the volatile national embarrassment from western Colorado, has delivered once again. Over the weekend, the second-term Republican congresswoman denied punching her ex-husband in the face several times after the two reportedly got into it at a restaurant located in her district. She has since conveniently cited the incident to justify her preexisting plan to leave Colorado’s Third Congressional District — where she eked out a reelection win in 2022 — and head east to compete for the state’s deep red Fourth District.
“This is a sad situation for all that keeps escalating and another reason I’m moving,” Boebert said Sunday in a statement to the Daily Beast, the outlet first to report on her alleged restaurant row. (Boebert could conceivably avoid her ex simply by settling in another part of Colorado’s Third, a 49,730-square-mile district that makes up more than 47% of the entire state.)…”