Everyone knows about Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert’s controversies. Not just her divorce, but a scandalous outing to see a show with her new boyfriend — who she’s dumped since the public found out he was a Democrat — where she broke a BUNCH of laws.

Vaping indoors, public disturbance, illegally filming the production, even publicly groping him, she seemed like she was covering her bases that night. She made sure she didn’t miss out on any crimes.

And then she lied about all of it, until little by little, each thing she was accused of was released on video.

So what did she do? She decided to move districts, so she’d have a chance at staying in Congress with a crowd of voters that wasn’t as familiar with her antics.

She tried to wipe the slate clean.

But her efforts have largely been fruitless. She came in fifth in a straw poll in her new district during the primary, and hasn’t stopped gathering bad press anyway.

I’m new to the term “district shopping,” but I think anyone reading this could get it from context.

She literally moved from the 3rd District to the 4th, chasing the far more conservative voters there. But even they aren’t fooled — she just had her worst fundraising quarter yet. Members of Congress do not, of course, raise as much as a presidential candidate. But they can generally still expect support in the millions, if they’re popular in their district.

In 2021, in her first campaign for reelection since she won the seat the year before, she regularly raised an easy million in multiple quarters. Then she kept the seat by only 546 votes.

Her last fundraising total was less than half that. She has become an albatross around the neck of the Republican Party that once fully embraced her.

It’s small wonder, though. She was called a “carpetbagger” to her face at a January 25th debate, while running against eight other candidates in the primary. When asked, none of them would say that they would support her if they were forced to drop out of the race.

If only she could keep her mouth shut and behave like an adult, she could likely win the 4th District. But it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen any time soon.