Lauren Boebert Says Government Shut Down Her Restaurant That She Admits Was Filthy

During a bizarre statement in the House late last week, Lauren Boebert falsely claimed that it was the government that shut down her beloved restaurant, Shooters, even though she admits that the restaurant was always filthy. Not only did the government NOT shut her down, but admitting that you didn't do a good job cleaning your business isn't exactly a winning statement. Farron Cousins explains why that restaurant was actually shut down, and why that matters for someone like Boebert who may be out of a job in the next year.

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During a speech on the house floor last week, Lauren Bobert decided to blame the government for the fact that her restaurant shooter's Bar and grill was shut down last year. Now, Lauren Bobert was trying to give an impassioned speech against the Bureau of Land Management that she says is just out there taking, uh, land away from the fossil fuel developers in this country. So Bobert somehow some way tied that into her restaurant and blamed the government for shutting down her restaurant indirectly, of course, right? They didn't come in and say, you gotta shut down. But indirectly, the Bureau of Land Management, and by extension, the federal government, of course, shut down shooter's, bar and Grill. Here's what she said. Colorado's West Slope used to have a booming energy production economy. 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.

So your argument about your restaurant is, Hey, I knew it was gonna be a good day 'cause this place was dirty as hell. And then some days after, you know, they shut everything down. We'd come in and the place would be clean. Can you imagine folks who wants to walk into a clean restaurant? What kind of psycho would say, Ooh, I'm not eating here. This place is too clean. Give me a place with mud on the floor floor. Lauren, I, I think we're kind of getting to the heart of why your restaurant was such a failure if you were just leaving mud on the floor and getting angry when things were clean. Um, I, I think, I think we're really hitting the nail on the head there. The restaurant should always be clean. There shouldn't be mud on the floor for more than a few moments before a server, a buser, a host, a bartender, whoever it is, a manager goes over, cleans it up real quick. Also, you shouldn't describe your clientele as roughnecks. Probably not exactly the kind of thing that screams, bring your kids in here, you know, to sit next to the roughneck at the bar. Also, this story is completely false. Lauren, if your story were to be believed, then it would have to be pretty much everything in Colorado's third district that shut down. But it didn't, your restaurant was shut down partially because there was a lot of negative stories out there. But most importantly, the biggest reason that you,

Yourself admitted a year ago, year and a half ago almost, was that your landlord simply decided not to renew the lease. So you just, you just closed up shop. You didn't try to move it somewhere else. You just said, all right, screw it. We're done. That, that's what happened. That's what shut your restaurant down. There's actually a restaurant that's in there now that seems to be doing pretty well. So it wasn't the government that caused people to leave town that caused a restaurant to shut down. It was your own landlord that you admitted in June of 2022 wasn't gonna renew your lease, therefore, it was over. But then also brings me to something I've been thinking a lot about recently. I actually wanted to do a whole segment on this, but it actually ties in nicely here. What does Lauren Bobert do if she loses Congress next year?

She doesn't have a restaurant anymore, so she doesn't have a day job. She doesn't have a way to make money. So if Lauren Bobert loses her race next year, which it, another article came out, you know, a day or two ago saying how even more voters in her district are still getting off about the Beetlejuice thing, even after I had talked about that a couple days prior to. So her district is still reeling from her Beetlejuice antics.