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Posted: 2021-11-01T04:23:50Z | Updated: 2021-11-01T11:27:05Z Rep. Lauren Boeberts Campaign Gets The State She Represents Wrong | HuffPost

Rep. Lauren Boeberts Campaign Gets The State She Represents Wrong

Boebert's Federal Election Commission filing lists the Colorado lawmaker as a candidate for Congress in Utah.
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The campaign of Rep. Lauren Boebert  (R-Colo.) mistakenly identified her as a representative of Utah in a report submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday. 

“Thanks for reaching out,” a spokesperson for Boebert, Jake Settle, said in response to an inquiry about the Forbes article that first reported on the filing. “I flagged this for our team!” 

An earlier version of the report  for the campaign’s third quarter of 2021, filed Oct. 15, listed Boebert’s state as Colorado. A revised version  was filed Thursday and changed the state and congressional district from Colorado 03 to Utah 03, among other amendments. Following Forbes’ report, the filing was edited again  on Friday to say Colorado.

Since her election to the House of Representatives last year, Boebert, a gun-rights advocate and Donald Trump disciple, has routinely made headlines for spreading conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism  and bigotry , and for her tendency to self-own , usually when attacking others .

She was named in a Rolling Stone report last week as one of multiple Republican members of Congress who communicated with organizers of the Jan. 6 attack in the weeks before the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a pro-Trump mob seeking to overturn the 2020 election. Boebert has denied any involvement .

Twitter critics did not let the error slide. 

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