A video recently broadcasted by a local Denver news station showed Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, making an excuse to state police after she was pulled over for speeding.
Bobert was clocked going 84 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone by the Colorado State Patrol on May 12, according to the Denver publication, Westword. The congresswoman was stopped on Mother's Day morning while driving on Interstate 70 in a black Mazda CX-50.
In a recent broadcast, FOX31 Denver played body camera footage from the state trooper who stopped Boebert and gave her a speeding ticket.
"I was messing with my gears and I know I ended up going like way too fast," Boebert told the officer in the video.
The officer then replied, "Because you hit 90 [miles per hour] for a second, but you were on the brakes pretty quick."
After showing the clip of Boebert's traffic stop, the FOX31 Denver anchor reporting on the video said that Boebert told the officer that "she was having issues with her transmission, which is why she didn't realize she was speeding."
Bobert received a $174.50 speeding ticket, but when she didn't pay it on time, she was ordered to attend Eagle County District Court on July 26, Westword reported. On July 3, the congresswoman contacted the court and paid off the speeding ticket online, the outlet reported, citing the Clerk to the Court's office.
Newsweek has reached out to Boebert's office via email for comment.
"Tickets that aren't paid to the state before their twenty-day deadline, they'll get sent to the court," a court clerk told Westword, adding that Boebert ended up taking a standard plea offer.
Boebert's press secretary, Drew Sexton, told the outlet that the congresswoman sent a check for the speeding ticket to the Department of Revenue (DOR) instead of paying it online, but the check was later sent back to her.
However, the clerk who spoke to Boebert on the phone earlier this month said she did not mention a lost check. The clerk told Westword that they didn't "know what happened before the ticket came to us."
Boebert is fairly new to Congress, having been elected in 2020. She currently serves Colorado's 3rd congressional district, but is the Republican nominee for Colorado's 4th district in this year's upcoming election. Boebert's short time in Congress, however, has been fraught with controversy.
In September 2023, Boebert made headlines after she was ejected from the Buell Theater in Denver during a performance of Beetlejuice The Musical. The congresswoman was caught on surveillance video vaping and showing public displays of affection with her date during the show.
Following the incident, Boebert called it "unacceptable" and said that she "fell short" of her values while attending the show. She apologized for the "unwanted attention" her actions brought to the community and said, "While none of my actions or words as a private citizen that night were intended to be malicious or meant to cause harm, the reality is they did and I regret that."
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