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Reader: The Boeberts Are a Family Portrait of the Dumbing Down of Our Nation

Commenters wonder if the Colorado congresswoman really represents the law-and-order party, and suggest a slogan for her CD4 run: Bye, bye Boebert!
Lauren and Jayson 
Boebert in happier times.
Lauren and Jayson Boebert in happier times. Lauren Boebert Facebook page
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U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert, who announced late last year that she'd be leaving CD3 for a run in CD4, has also said she'll move into the new district. Good idea: On January 9, her ex-husband, Jayson, was taken into custody on two separate arrest warrants — one for a January 6 fight in a Silt restaurant with the Colorado congresswoman, and another for allegedly assaulting their eldest son, Tyler, during an argument at their house in Garfield County, the arrest affidavit says.

Tyler, who turns nineteen on March 21, became a father himself last year; early on January 9, he called the police to say that Jayson had argued about how he was dealing with the baby, and had pushed Tyler to the ground. "Jayson had a gun, it was a rifle. Jayson was carrying the rifle," the affidavit reports.

In their comments on the Westword Facebook posts reporting the ongoing Boebert family drama, readers take aim themselves. Says Steve:
The "party of law and order"!
Adds Adelo: 
Ah, Christian values.
Responds Scott:
Ah, if the dumbing down of our nation was a family portrait. It amazes me that we still have people who cheer, hoot and holler about Making America Great with these type of Idiots in political power positions.
Suggests James:
Westword addicted to sideshows, never policy.
Replies Steve: 
Sideshows are the only thing the Republican Party ever delivers on.
And then there's this, adapted by Clare Hydock of Craig from “Bye, Bye Blackbird,” written by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon in 1926: 
Bye, Bye Boebert

Pack up all your cares and woes. There you go, to CD4. Bye, bye, Boebert.

Can’t take the heat so you leave the kitchen. Afraid you’re gonna lose to Adam Frisch-en. Bye, bye, Boebert.

Won’t get Trump’s support ‘cuz leaving makes you look weak. So your campaign looks pretty bleak. Bye, bye, Boebert.

Want him kept on the ballot, “let the voters” decide. Shouldn’t that apply to you; what, you lied? Bye, bye Boebert.

I wish you good luck and good riddance. Won’t take CD4 long to see through your transience. Bye, bye, Boebert.

By the way, that means “lasting only for a short time; transitory nature.” Nothing to do with your anti-transgender legislature. Boebert, bye bye.
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