Rep. Lauren Boebert gave a simple response to a viral claim that she had affairs with three staff members — including two women: she’s straight.
Boebert (R-Col.), who famously pondered in April, “why is everybody so horny” in Congress after a slew of sex scandals, faces a sworn ethics complaint from a political action committee that has targeted her for years and is led by a political activist who has peddled dubious claims about her in the past.
“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, 39, told Sources Say News after the bombshell accusations emerged.
US Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-CO, applies makeup during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the US Capitol Building in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Getty Images
Her office called the claims “utterly false.” Boebert has had a restraining order against the man behind the complaint, American Muckrakers’ leader David Wheeler, since 2022.
“Congresswoman Lauren Boebert rejects these allegations as utterly false and there is no truth to them whatsoever,” a spokesperson for Boebert told The Post. “This is nothing more than a politically motivated stunt designed to manipulate the ethics process, create headlines, smear her, and generate clickbait.”
“They come from an activist who has long recycled sensational claims, including numerous baseless accusations previously fact-checked as false.”
Members of Congress are prohibited from having sex with their staffers under House rules enacted in the wake of #MeToo. Over the past year, there has been a push to extend that ban to other staffers as well.
Wheeler, who has gone after Boebert for years and has a history of self-admitted “sloppy” research riddled with “inaccuracies” against Boebert, filed the complaint on Thursday with the House Ethics Committee.
It alleges that Boebert had flings with her former district director Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff and two other staffers that it implied were former chief of staff Jeffrey Small and current chief of staff Raven Finegan. But the complaint itself gives very few details about the accusations revolving around Small and Finegan.
Republican Freedom Caucus members and US Representatives Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and Bob Good, R-W.Va., head up the House stairs to a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. REUTERS
Both Navarro Ratzlaff and Small left Boebert’s office in 2025. Finegan is still there.
Wheeler alleges that Boebert’s fling with Navarro Ratzlaff began in 2021 and lasted through her tenure. But Navarro Ratzlaff has strenuously denied that, telling the Colorado Times Recorder that the accusations are “entirely false, defamatory, and beyond ridiculous. There is absolutely no truth to any part of this claim.”
Wheeler, who is famous for also targeting former Rep. Madison Cathorne (R-NC), alleged their liaison took place in campaign-funded hotel rooms and that Navarro Ratzlaff got a $200,000 payout in March of last year to keep quiet after she dangled the threat of filing an ethics complaint.
The complaint is based on House disclosures and anonymous sources, according to Wheeler.
The boisterous congresswoman and mother of four had gone viral in 2023 for getting caught on camera groping her now-ex-beau Quinn Gallagher, a registered Democrat, at a “Beetlejuice” performance in Denver.
Jeffrey Small and Lauren Boebert. Jeff Small/Facebook
The pair were kicked out of the venue for causing a disturbance by vaping and snapping photos in violation of the theater’s rules. Boebert later apologized for the debacle and survived reelection in 2024.
Wheeler alleged that Navarro Ratzlaff and Boebert had a “knock-down, drag-out and physical argument” at the bar in Aspen owned by Gallagher due to frustrations about the congresswoman’s flirtations with the Democrat. He claimed that there was video of the alleged fight, but admitted he didn’t actually have it.
Much of Wheeler’s complaint centers around Navarro Ratzlaff. He said that his “sources” possess key documents such as text messages, court documents, recorded conversations, and bank records to support the accusations.
The Boebert-hating political activist also bizarrely alleged that Boebert and Navarro Ratzlaff had a “threesome” with former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who had been dogged by accusations that he had intercourse with an underage girl — something he vehemently denied.
Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, former Lauren Boebert district director. Raven Finegan/Facebook
“I am requesting that anyone with video of me in this alleged ‘threesome’ release said evidence IMMEDIATELY! Unedited, please,” Gaetz, who is known to be friendly with Boebert, joked on X after the accusations emerged.
Wheeler also admitted that Boebert’s ex-husband, Jayson, who split with her in 2023, slammed the accusations. The two had been married for some 20 years.
“I think it is all a fairy tale made up propaganda. I don’t believe any of that. Bad sources,” Jayson told American Muckrakers in response.
Raven Finegan and Lauren Boebert pose for a photo. Raven Finegan/Instagram
Back in 2022, during her reelection bid, Wheeler published accusations that Boebert previously worked as an escort. Critics quickly slammed those claims after his report was found to have featured pictures of a woman who wasn’t actually Boebert.
Wheeler later copped to errors in that report, then proceeded to file a defamation suit against her after she threatened to take legal accusations for pushing false claims against her. The two then reached a settlement.
In June, Boebert faced dubious accusations that she was having a tryst with libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) that came from an ex-girlfriend of his.
“F— you, first of all. If you’re gonna bring me into this, like, this sexist stuff is out of control,” Boebert fumed to reporters at the time.
“There’s your clickbait that you were looking for. I don’t wanna talk about anybody’s exes and their crazy s— that they do.”