Lauren Boebert faces some very close scrutiny about her actions with respect to the insurrection. Her tweets combined with some indications of foreknowledge are deeply concerning.

But there is much more, stuff that one would definitely not expect from a person who decided to run for Congress. Indeed, some of us have always presumed that even some dents in our credit history would immediately rule us out from running for public office, even without even a single arrest. Boebert has more than a single arrest, lots more, and a couple are more serious than at first glance.

Two provisos. As everyone knows, arrests don’t necessarily mean anything. People get arrested by mistake and sometimes there are complicated circumstances that show that even if one broke the law, it’s worth dismissing due to the circumstances. But the other provision is that if one is arrested and released with a court date, you Show. The. Fck. Up. If you don’t show up, that in and of itself is often much worse than getting arrested and is often treated as a serious crime.

Lauren Boebert has had plenty of arrests, some people do as they mature. Most people, no matter how immature, know that they better be there when the judge calls their case. Not showing up is like a big F-You! to the law and our system of government.

That said, from the New York Post:

Back in June 2015, Boebert was cuffed for disorderly conduct at a country music festival near Grand Junction, Colo., after police said she attempted to interfere in the arrest of minors busted for underage drinking and encouraged the accused to run off. Boebert said the revelers had not been read their Miranda rights and that the arrest was illegal.

It is probably worth noting that in our country, judges decide whether arrests are illegal. Boebert was not a judge and maybe those kids deserved to be arrested. WE are not police officers and we don’t know. Just like SHE was not a judge.

Boebert subsequently missed two court appearances and was arrested again in December 2015. The charge was dismissed.

Maybe everything is normal there but …that sounds very suspicious. In our experience, if you interfere with the police doing their work, and then blow off two court dates, you are going to get fined at the very very very least. When these cases are dismissed, sometimes it’s because someone knows someone, if you know? We’re not saying, just …

A year later, in September 2016, Boebert was charged with careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle after rolling her truck into a ditch, police said. When she failed to show up for court a month later, a warrant was issued for her arrest. She was booked on Feb. 13, 2017.

The careless driving charge was dismissed.

She paid $120 for the unsafe vehicle. A non-moving violation. Now, this starts to really smell. The judge on that second one would not only know that she failed to show up that time, but two other times in a previous arrest, it’s right there on the damned computer and prosecutors generally notice and point it out if it wasn’t.

Back in October when she was campaigning she mocked the arrest.

“I didn’t pay the ticket,” Boebert told the crowd of about 75 people, none of whom were wearing masks. “But I got it paid. One hundred dollars. And I even got a pretty mugshot out of it. Now that mug shot is being blasted everywhere to try to vilify me, to make me look like Colorado’s most wanted, while they are promoting defund-the-police organizations. This is not right.”

We find it outrageous that someone who comes and goes as she pleases later wins a seat as a “law and order” woman. Oh, and we’re not done!

In September 2010, Boebert was arrested after a neighbor, Michele Soet, accused Boebert’s two pit bulls of attacking Soet’s dog. The future legislator pleaded guilty to a single count of “dog at large,” paying a $75 fine.

Small fine. But we’ll just note that to get arrested for a “dog at large” charge? Your dog really really had to be “at large” – meaning dangerous. Most get issued a citation and told to show up at court.

Now this below is probably unfair and we wouldn’t even publish it were it not for the above failures to appear because she was so young, but young people can commit crimes:

[D]uring an altercation with Jayson at his home [] she scratched his face and chest and trashed his residence, according to a police report. She was slapped with third-degree assault, criminal mischief and underage drinking charges.

No comment.

Here is what we know. That’s not a normal record for someone who is entrusted with a very serious duty. It isn’t completely abnormal and some people grow out of phases and become great. But if one somehow does get elected to Congress, and that same someone argues with Capitol police about carrying her gun into the Capitol on her first damned day? Now we’re talking about someone who quite likely could be dangerous and we say that in all sincerity and without political bent.

There needs to be a very thorough investigation of the insurrection. She may not be involved but she’s already shown to be both reckless and without any respect for the real system and rules. That’s not a good mix. The investigation better be good.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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