Understanding Boebert
Boebert’s father was a professional wrestler who falsified a DNA test and never acknowledged her.
Surprised me to have missed this. Childhood trauma with this one.
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/31/republican-star-lauren-boebert-spins-fables-about-her-childhood--but-the-real-story-is-better
Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, a right-wing Republican and prominent member of the "Sedition Caucus," frequently speaks about her upbringing in a family struggling with poverty, describing herself as a "welfare child." Boebert has even blamed the liberal ideals held by her mother as the reason why her family was poor and required government assistance during her childhood.
But both in Washington circles and in speaking to voters in her Colorado district, Boebert has not discussed in detail exactly what circumstances landed the future right-wing firebrand and her mother in this disadvantaged situation. An investigation by Salon suggests that it had less to do with liberal ideology and more to do with her mother's failure to obtain the child support payments to which she was rightfully entitled.
Boebert's mother, Shawn Roberts Bentz, tried valiantly for years to receive child support — and it appears likely that she and her daughter fell victim to a corrupt phlebotomist, a professional wrestler turned deadbeat dad, and a negligent North Carolina child support system that allowed Bentz's case to slide through the cracks.
Boebert has occasionally been asked what role her biological father played in her family's struggles, and has repeatedly declined to answer. Exactly who her father was, in fact, remains officially uncertain: No father's name was listed on her 1986 Florida birth certificate, nor in the local newspaper's birth announcement.
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That's wild!
I grew up watching him as a kid. He's an iconic wrestler of the early 80s and wrestled in NWA & early WCW.
I'll have to show my friend this who works for the WWE & is a big honcho in production. She'll love this lol
That's hilarious lol He was a "face" (good guy) and wrestled for a tag team called "The Fabulous Ones".
What a trip this is!
Thanks for sharing 
He's on the left in the pic blow pictured with wrestling manager the iconic Jim Cornette (who by the way is VERRY involved in Social Justice movements and is a Democratic Socialist) and "Big Bubba" in the background before he became famous as the late 80s WWF icon "The Big Boss Man".
