Boebert Blames the Government for Her Restaurant’s Closure, Proudly Boasts of ‘Mud on My Floor’

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) claimed her congressional district has “been regulated into poverty” and suggested her defunct restaurant was collateral damage.

Speaking on the House floor on Thursday, Boebert introduced a proposal preventing the Bureau of Land Management from restricting oil and gas leases on federal land in Colorado. In doing so, she decried red tape and lamented the loss of her establishment.

“Colorado’s west slope used to have a booming energy production economy,” she said. “Unfortunately, we’ve been regulated into poverty in Colorado’s third district. I remember when I owned a small business, roughnecks used to come into my restaurant and I knew it was going to be a good, successful, profitable day because I had mud on my floor to clean up. But through regulations, there was no more mud to clean up on nearly any of our business floors and many businesses shuttered forever.”

Boebert owned Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado until last year when it closed down. Despite her tale of a loss of customers due to a lack of regulation, that is at odds with the actual reason.

The congresswoman tweeted about the closure in July 2022 and stated that “our landlord would not be renewing our lease.”

“This decision was his to make and was purely a business decision with no political motivation,” she added.

The New York Times reported on the shuttering and described the establishment at the time.

“Shooters Grill, a restaurant owned by Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado where waitresses with guns holstered on their hips served ‘Shotgun’ burritos, ‘Locked N’ Loaded Nachos,’ ‘Swiss & Wesson’ burgers and ‘Rifle Toast,’ closed on Sunday after the building’s landlord decided not to renew the lease,” the Times noted.

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