Why Does Lauren Boebert Want to Annihilate the Sage-Grouse? Follow the Money
The GOP lawmaker called the threatened species a "mediocre bird," but one watchdog group says her husband's ties to a major oil and gas firm better explain it.
Earlier this week, far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert went on a diatribe against Greater sage-grouse conservation efforts but neglected to mention that her husband raked in nearly $1 million over a two-year period from a fossil fuel corporation that stands to lose out if the Biden administration strengthens federal protection of the threatened bird species' sagebrush habitat.
"Her behavior is the epitome of corruption."
"The Biden regime's sage-grouse landgrab policies are not about saving a mediocre bird that is legally hunted in seven states," Boebert (R-Colo.) said in a statement. "Rather, they are about locking up tens of millions of acres of land in the West, closing off mineral and energy development, expanding the federal government's power over rural Colorado, and destroying American jobs."
What went unsaid is that Jayson Boebert works as a consultant for Terra Energy Partners. The oil and gas firm paid him $460,601 in 2019 and $478,386 in 2020—information that Lauren Boebert failed to disclose during her congressional campaign and only reported in financial disclosure forms filed last August.
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