Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) flatly denied a sworn ethics complaint filed against her this week that alleges sexual relationships with three congressional aides — conduct that would violate House rules if substantiated.
“Well, I’m not a lesbian or bisexual, and I have never, ever been in any inappropriate relationship, nor have I ever been sexually involved with any staff,” Boebert told Sources Say News on Saturday, according to The Daily Wire.
The complaint was submitted Thursday to the House Ethics Committee by David Wheeler, who heads American Muckrakers, a political action committee that has targeted Boebert for years. Boebert’s congressional office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
What the filing alleges
At the center of the complaint is Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, a former Colorado state lawmaker who ran Boebert’s district office from 2021 until January 2025. The filing also describes alleged relationships with a current and a former senior aide.
According to the complaint, the encounters took place in a district office, in a campaign-reimbursed vehicle and in hotel rooms billed to the campaign. It further claims that Boebert arranged a payment of roughly $200,000 to Navarro Ratzlaff in March 2025, after Navarro Ratzlaff had left the office and signaled she intended to file her own complaint.
Wheeler has acknowledged he does not know the source of that money, and the portion of the filing describing how he verified the payment is redacted in the version made public.
The complaint leans on House payroll records and campaign finance filings to build its financial claims. Its account of the alleged relationships, however, rests on unnamed sources whose underlying notes were not released publicly.
Denials from those named
Navarro Ratzlaff pushed back forcefully on the allegations, telling the Colorado Times Recorder they were “entirely false, defamatory, and beyond ridiculous.”
Boebert’s ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, also weighed in. In a message that Wheeler released, he described the allegations as “propaganda.”
The Denver-based congresswoman’s denial came the same day the complaint became public, and she did not address the specifics of the alleged $200,000 payment in her remarks.
A rule adopted after Capitol Hill scandals
The House adopted a rule in 2018 — in the wake of a series of harassment scandals on Capitol Hill — barring members from engaging in sexual relationships with employees under their supervision. The Ethics Committee cited that rule during a 2019 investigation into then-Rep. Katie Hill, a California Democrat who later resigned.
It remains unclear whether the committee will open a formal investigation into the allegations against Boebert. Under House practice, complaints filed by outside groups do not automatically trigger a review, and the committee rarely confirms or comments on pending matters. The complaint is sworn, which carries its own legal weight, but the absence of named sources on the relationship claims could complicate any inquiry.
Timing draws scrutiny to Boebert’s own remarks
The filing lands months after Boebert drew national attention for comments she made to reporters in April. At the time, following a string of misconduct-related resignations in Congress, she said lawmakers should “go to church, find Jesus” and asked why her colleagues were “so horny.”
Those remarks drew renewed scrutiny in light of her own history. In September 2023, Boebert was ejected from a performance of “Beetlejuice” at Denver’s Buell Theatre after security footage showed her and then-boyfriend Quinn Gallagher groping each other, vaping and taking flash photographs during the show. She later apologized, saying she had let her emotions get the better of her.
American Muckrakers has a track record of pursuing Boebert, and Wheeler’s group has spent years attempting to surface damaging material about her. That history cuts both ways here: it gives the group a motive and some familiarity with the congresswoman’s finances, but it also means the filing arrives with the baggage of a long-running political feud rather than as the product of a neutral investigation.
For now, the complaint is a set of allegations rather than established facts. The relationships it describes rely on sources the public cannot evaluate, the payment it alleges is only partly substantiated in the released document, and the two women most directly named — Navarro Ratzlaff as an alleged participant, and Boebert as the accused — have both denied wrongdoing. What happens next depends largely on whether the Ethics Committee decides the filing warrants a closer look.
Source: www.dailywire.com — https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-a-lesbian-lauren-boebert-denies-sleeping-with-three-staffers