Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) likely wishes Tim Burton hadn’t thought of the idea for a scary clown who talks quickly. There would have been no musical adaptation without that movie, and she would not have been able to meet her date at a show in Denver last year if there had been no musical version.
While Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice is known as the “ghost with the most,” the story of the grope session will never end. It came up again at a Republican debate in Colorado that was shown on TV on Thursday night, and Boebert lost badly.
The representative, who currently serves Colorado’s 3rd congressional district, is running for her party’s nomination in the 4th, which is more rural and usually votes red. Her huge national image, compared to that of her opponents, has helped her campaign’s funds, but it also meant that she was the only candidate on stage who was criticized for vaping and singing loudly during musicals in dark theaters.
“Would you like to talk about the play?” Kyle Clark of Channel 9 moderated the discussion and asked Boebert about it after one of her opponents brought it up.
The boy replied, “Sure.” “So, Kyle, I—I own up to my night out in Denver.”
In September of last year, Boebert was dragged out of the theater against his will and only admitted to “laughing and singing too loud.” Channel 9, a station in Denver, got surveillance video and released it, showing how bad her behavior was. That’s when she “owned up” to it.
“Um,” Boebert said next in the debate, “and you know I—I’ve been on that public apology tour, and I’m thankful for the forgiveness and grace that have been shown.” But I’m not going to keep living in shame and being beaten up by this. Also, I’d like to look at my record again.
Clark, on the other hand, surrounded the lawmaker.
“I want to be sure.” “Did you say sorry for what happened between you and your date?” he asked, continuing even though she tried to cut him off. “Or—excuse me—did you say sorry for lying to voters about what you did that night and how rude you were to service workers that night?” What exactly were you saying you were sorry for?”
Boebert insisted that things had been “completely taken out of context” and that she had not “flipped someone off,” as the security video of her being kicked out of the theater makes clear.
She said, “I think it’s been taken in a very wrong way.” “Um—I’m sorry that you got the video and put it out there so that people could see it during a very private moment, Kyle Clark.”
The lawmaker then tried to get back at Clark by claiming that he had recently said on a show that it was “disgusting to record someone without their knowledge.”
The speaker finally cut her off in the middle of her rant, thanked her, and turned the attention back to the other candidates. For the next hour, they spent most of the time attacking Boebert, finding flaws in her record in Congress and pointing out how little legislation she has passed while she has been in office.
