AOC Had An Excellent Point About Lauren Boebert.

She had a lot to say about the right wing’s reaction to Boebert’s theater incident, and she wasn’t wrong.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readSep 23, 2023
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), left, speaking from the U.S. House of Representatives floor, screenshot via CSPAN

It feels safe to assume that it’s going to be a while before Colorado’s Representative Lauren Boebert is going to live down what happened in the Denver theatre recently. At least on social media, there really was no escaping the stories or the video camera footage of Boebert and her date fondling each other in the middle of a theatre packed with kids during a performance of Beetlejuice, and understandably so. For someone coming from the wing of the Republican Party who does not hesitate to simply accuse Democrats of being pedophiles with absolutely no evidence whatsoever to back it up, this story warranted the attention it has gotten from the left. But of course, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was quick to point out who has been curiously silent.

On her instagram, AOC said:

“All I gotta say is I can’t go out to lunch in Florida in my free time. Not doing anything. Just eating outside and it’s wall to wall FOX News coverage. And then you have a member of congress engaging in sexually lewd acts in a public theater, and they got nothing to say. I danced to Phoenix once in college, and it was like, all over the place. But putting on…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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