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Then-candidate Lauren Boebert during a freedom cruise staged by her supporters, Sept. 4, 2020, in Pueblo West, Colo.
On Feb. 22, 2021, the campaign of GOP Congresswoman Lauren Boebert amended its campaign finance filing for a mileage reimbursement. Our original story continues below.
Updated on Feb. 8 at 2:45 p.m.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s campaign paid her $22,259 in mileage reimbursements, effectively claiming that Boebert had driven 38,712 miles during the course of her campaign in 2020.
It’s a figure that raised eyebrows when it was first reported by The Denver Post, with two groups requesting investigations of the freshman Republican representative’s apparently ambitious itinerary.
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Republican representative Lauren Boebert has drawn reimbursements worth $22,000 for gas mileage used during her campaign for Congress in 2020, raising questions from ethics experts.
The Colorado GOP lawmaker wrote two cheques for a total of $22,259 from her campaign accounts for mileage between January and mid-November. The latest one is $21,199, after receiving reimbursement in March 2020, according to reports by
The Denver Post and the local blog Colorado Pols.
Her massive reimbursements can also be seen in campaign finance data on the website OpenSecrets.
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FILE - In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Lauren Boebert speaks during a watch party at Warehouse 25 Sixty Five in Grand Junction after polls closed in Colorado s primary election. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP File)
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert paid herself more than $22,000 in mileage reimbursements from her campaign account last year. Boebert’s campaign defends the reimbursements but three ethics experts who reviewed the money transfers for The Denver Post say they raise questions.
Candidates for federal office can legally reimburse themselves for miles driven in personal vehicles using the Internal Revenue Service’s mileage rate, which was 57.5 cents per mile for 2020. The Republican congresswoman from western Colorado wrote two checks totaling $22,259 from her campaign coffers for mileage between January and mid-November.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert paid herself more than $22,000 in mileage reimbursements from her campaign account last year. Boebert’s campaign defends the reimbursements but three ethics experts who reviewed the money transfers for The Denver Post say they raise questions.
Candidates for federal office can legally reimburse themselves for miles driven in personal vehicles using the Internal Revenue Service’s mileage rate, which was 57.5 cents per mile for 2020. The Republican congresswoman from western Colorado wrote two checks totaling $22,259 from her campaign coffers for mileage between January and mid-November.
To justify those reimbursements, Boebert would have had to drive 38,712 miles while campaigning, despite having no publicly advertised campaign events in March, April or July, and only one in May. Furthermore, because the reimbursements came in two payments a modest $1,060 at the end of March and $21,200 on Nov. 11 Boebert would have had to drive 36,870 miles in j