Lauren Boebert Seeks Grant From Pete Buttigieg, Even After Mocking Him
wrote last week to Buttigieg requesting $33.1 million through the Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program for a bridge in Glenwood Springs, Colo.“With Rural Surface Transportation grant funds, Glenwood Springs will construct a new bridge connection that will provide a critical second emergency route/evacuation access between State Highway 82 and the western side of the Roaring Fork River in the City’s South Corridor,” she wrote.Congress passed the infrastructure bill in late 2021 and Biden quickly signed it into law.
Boebert opposed the bill, calling it “wasteful” and “garbage,” and she said the Republicans who supported it were “RINOS,” that is, Republicans in name only.She had criticized Buttigieg for taking parental leave when he and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, welcomed twin babies last year.
The criticism was ostensibly because the nation was in a supply-chain crisis, but Boebert used homophobic and sexist language. “The guy was not working!
Because why? He was trying to figure out how to chest feed,” she said in a YouTube video.Boebert told a Colorado newspaper that she saw no conflict between opposing Biden’s infrastructure bill and requesting the funding. “I am for investing in rural Colorado, but Biden’s so-called infrastructure bill was not the right way to do it,” she wrote in an email to The Durango Herald. “Less than 10% of $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill went to roads and bridges.
