There’s a first time for everything, they say, and GOP firebrand Lauren Boebert is full of firsts.
Boebert is serving her first term as the first congresswoman from Colorado who had never served in public office before her election. Her first week in Congress was peppered with people calling her a “fool” and a “QAnon conspiracy theorist.” She was the first House member to be reprimanded by Capitol police for violating DC gun laws.
She even used her first speech to claim that the 2020 election (you know, the one she got elected in) wasn’t legitimate.
Now the Colorado Republican has a new first to be proud of: She is the very first candidate to file her candidacy for the next election with the wrong state listed.
Forbes picked up on the gaffe [1] Friday morning when they noticed that her filing with the Federal Election Commission for the midterms listed her as a candidate for Utah‘s 3rd District, rather than the state she actually represents.
The filing was quickly amended again, but it honestly makes you wonder what someone who would make a mistake like that is even doing in Congress. Whether it was Boebert herself, or more likely a staffer, this seems like a pretty basic thing a politician should get right.
And considering the fact that she’s already faced allegations of using campaign funds to pay rent and utilities for her business — Shooter’s Grill, a gun-themed restaurant when patrons are encouraged to open carry — and faced even more serious accusations of having helped to plan the Capitol siege on January 6, you would think that Boebert would be as by-the-book as humanly possible.
Of course, that begs the question of her humanity in the first place.
I guess we’ll find out whether Lauren Boebert is the first insurrection-planning, campaign-fund-stealing, gun-toting Congresswoman to lose her seat after just her first term.