Rep. Lauren Boebert received $22,000 worth of gas reimbursements while running for Congress

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado raked in an eye-popping total of more than $22,000 in gas-mileage reimbursements from her campaign for Congress in 2020.

The rather large sum, which can be seen in campaign-finance data on the website OpenSecrets, was first reported by The Denver Post and the local blog Colorado Pols.

While Boebert amassed a total of $2,989,510 in her campaign for office, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the gas-reimbursement figure is remarkably high given the travel habits of her predecessor on the campaign trail and her relative lack of events during the pandemic.

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Candidates for federal office are allowed to legally reimburse themselves for miles driven in their personal vehicles using the Internal Revenue Service's mileage rate. In 2020, the rate was 57.5 cents per mile.

Boebert's $22,000 in gas money would mean she drove almost 39,000 miles while hitting the stump in the middle of a pandemic that left many public venues shut down.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-lauren-boebert-received-22-193154614.html

[Blue Owl]

1. Even if the avg. speed was 60 mph, how many hours would it take

to drive that many miles?

[KS Toronado]

15. 650 hours straight through with no potty breaks,

no gas refills, no stopping for lunch, or campaign stops to brag you're stealing money better than the average GQPer.

[BusyBeingBest]

2. Campaign finance fraud. Wonder what personal debts she paid off with the money?

Or did she buy a car with it?

[TheBlackAdder]

16. She miraculously paid off almost $20K in tax liens by Oct. 22nd. Perhaps this is to pay back lendor.

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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) paid off nearly $20,000 in state tax liens that had accumulated on her restaurant since 2016 less than two weeks before she was elected to Congress, Colorado Newsline reports.

Shooters Grill, the gun-themed restaurant owned by Boebert, accumulated eight liens for nonpayment of unemployment insurance premiums between 2016 and 2020. By early 2020, the restaurant owed the state $19,552.86. According to Garfield County records obtained by Newsline, three of the liens totaling $553.50, were paid off. The remaining five liens, totaling $18,999.36, were paid off on Oct. 22, 2020.

https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-2650330503/

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[BusyBeingBest]

17. Hmmm, interesting. Good find.

[greenjar_01]

3. Another Duncan Hunter type

Campaign funds for ski trips. Campaign funds for the cigar bar with the lobbyist hook-up. Campaign funds to bring the fucking rabbit to Italy. These people are despicable.

[SunSeeker]

5. She is blatant and stupid like Duncan Hunter. But all Republicans are grifters.

Some just are better at hiding it than others.

[NYC Liberal]

9. Then you have the new breed that takes after Trump...

They openly brag about their grifting. And their base rewards them for it.

[SunSeeker]

4. Republicans run for office to serve themselves, not the people.

Republicans don't believe in government. It's all just a grift to them.

[mahina]

6. Thief. Criminal. Be gone.

[Demovictory9]

7. fraudster

[dlk]

8. Was she driving a semi?

[ConstanceCee]

10. Hmmmm

That's a lot of miles. I wonder if she turned in receipts.

[Tommymac]

11. Talk about gaslighting.

She takes the prize.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

12. For perspective, the circumference of the planet is a little under 25,000 miles...

So, there is still enough mileage left to crisscross the United States five times...

[Mr.Bill]

13. I think the story is confusing gas money and mileage money.

If it was strictly a reimbursement for say, a gas credit card, at 2.50 a gallon and a vehicle getting20 MPG, she would have to drive 176,000 miles. If it was reimbursement for a gas card, there were lots people using it.

Mileage money is supposed to consider wear and tear, depreciation, etc., as well as fuel for the vehicle, but the article refers to it as "gas money".

[struggle4progress]

14. QAnon-supporting Republican claims 38,000 miles

Stuti Mishra
22 hours ago

... to justify a reimbursement of such a big amount, Ms Boebert’s distance driven during the campaign has to be about 38,712 miles ...

... her reimbursements came in two instalments, after the modest $1,060 at the end of March 2020, to justify her second reimbursement of $21,200 from 1 April to 3 November, she would have had to drive 36,870 miles in just over seven months ...

... Ms Boebert had no publicly-advertised events in April or July ...

... Ms Boebert was “reimbursed” for a total of $30,177 in 2020, much higher than outgoing representative Scott Tipton who she defeated. Over the last 10 years, Mr Tipton’s reimbursements account for a total of $12,255 from his campaign ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lauren-boebert-gas-expenses-qanon-b1797398.html