Lauren Boebert is criticized after she made a homophobic attack on Pete Buttigieg and claimed he “breastfed” instead of reading her letter

• Boebert is embroiled in another controversy, this time with “Mayor Pete”
• The nature of the attack included a reference to “breastfeeding”
• Boebert and Buttigieg argued over her taking credit for a bridge

Colorado House Representative Lauren Boebert came under fire this week for making homophobic remarks toward Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

In response to Buttigieg’s rebuke of the Republican for falsely claiming credit for building the Glenwood Springs South Bridge in Colorado, Boebert made a comment about Buttigieg’s “breast-feeding.”

Buttigieg made history when he became the first out gay U.S. Cabinet secretary in 2021 — but “chest-feeding” is a term used by many trans men and nonbinary people to describe breastfeeding their newborns from the chest area.

“Mayor Pete, you may have been out breastfeeding and missed my letter, but I wrote to you personally about this in June 2022,” she wrote on X last Wednesday.

In fact, she wrote a letter to Buttigieg advocating for the South Bridge grants, but the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was not passed until 2021, a year before her letter.

In addition, the funds for the South Bridge, for which Boebert said she secured $51.4 million, actually came from a provision of the same infrastructure bill she voted against because it “wastes hundreds of millions on climate change instead of roads and bridges.”

Boebert’s original post, in which he shared credit for the bridge with Glenwood Springs City Councilman Jonathan Godes, was dated May 22.

Buttigieg struck back the same day.

“Representatives, how do you think your support helped this project? We chose it because it is a good project and funded it with President Biden’s infrastructure package that you voted against,” he wrote on X, quoting her original post.

If Boebert’s response to Buttigieg was intended to highlight the potentially wasteful spending in the infrastructure bill, her reference to breastfeeding was completely lost in the shuffle.

Angry X-users pounced on her post, calling her homophobic for making fun of Buttigieg, who has two adopted children with her husband Chasten.

“All parents have skin-to-skin contact when their children are born. It’s normal. For parents of adopted children, this is very important. If you took care of your children, maybe they wouldn’t go to jail,” wrote one X user.

That’s Boebert’s son, Tyler, who was arrested two months ago for theft of property. Boebert declined to attend her son’s court hearing this month, preferring to appear at Trump’s hush-money trial in New York.

“Let’s talk about breastfeeding with #BoboTheHobo, okay?” wrote one X-user, attaching the widely shared video of Boebert groping her date at a Beetlejuice musical.

In fact, many of the responses combined political criticism of her with jabs at her cheeky antics at a Denver theater in September 2023, during which she vaped and took photos during the performance.

“You defending boasting about money you voted against is disgusting. This is perfectly normal, Gropert,” wrote one user.

Another wrote: “Stick to your theater work, fanatic.”

Boebert decided to switch districts and enter the race to succeed retiring Rep. Ken Buck. She has been attacked as a fortune hunter but has the largest campaign coffers at $1 million, Colorado News Line reported in April.

The Colorado primary is scheduled for June 25.