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Congresswoman Lauren Bobert of Colorado and her husband Jason Bobert were married in 2005.
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Jason Bobert pleaded guilty and served prison time for public indecency and lewdness in 2004.
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They have four sons. Their eldest, 17-year-old Tyler, is expecting a baby with his girlfriend.
Circa 2003: Lauren Roberts and Jason Bobert met at Burger King when she was 16 and he was 22.
Lauren Bobert, who briefly worked at Burger King before returning to McDonald’s, met Jason when he stopped by for lunch with colleagues from the oil rig where he worked.
“From that moment on, Jason Bobert and I were together,” she wrote of their first meeting in her 2022 memoir, My American Life. “He just took my breath away. I instantly fell in love with Jason and knew without a doubt that he was the man I was meant to be with – for better or for worse – forever.”
She also wrote that they broke no Colorado laws while dating and that her mother approves of their relationship. The age of consent in Colorado is 17.
January 2004: Jason Bobert was arrested and charged with public indecency and indecent exposure after he was accused of exposing his penis at a bowling alley.
In 2004, Jason Bobert was arrested and charged with public indecency and indecent exposure after two women claimed he flashed his penis in front of them at the Fireside Lane bowling alley in Rifle, Colorado, Insider’s Nicole Gaudiano reported. He pleaded guilty and served four days in jail and two years of probation.
In her memoir, Lauren Bobert claims that her husband didn’t really expose himself and just “acted like he was going to unbutton his pants” after drinking too much, and that the police were called after he threw a basket of French fries by bowling alley owner.
“He knew the truth — and the truth was that he didn’t do what he was accused of,” she wrote. “But the whole experience opened Jason’s eyes to the reality that he needed the alcohol and anger management classes that came with the plea deal.”
Reps for Lauren Boebert did not respond to Insider’s requests for comment.
March 2005: She gave birth to their eldest son, Tyler, when she was 18.
Bobert, who started working at McDonald’s when he was 15 years olddropped out of high school in 2004 when she became pregnant.
“I was a brand new mother and had to make tough decisions about successfully raising my child or making it to high school biology class. And I chose to take care of my child,” she told The Durango Herald during the 2020 campaign.
The Boeberts already have four sons: Tyler, Brody, Caden and Roman, who are between the ages of 10 and 17, according to the bio on her official website.
June 2005: Lauren and Jason Bobert get married.
In My American Life, Lauren Bobert writes that she and Jason initially wanted to get married four months after they met, when she was still 16. They even drove to A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada, but found when they got there that they couldn’t get married until she was 17.
May 2013: Boeberts opened Shooters Grill, a gun-toting restaurant where waiters carried firearms while serving customers.
Menu items at Shooters Grill include the “M16 burrito” and “bump stock corned beef hashish,” Insider’s Madison Hall reported.
The Bobert family also owned another restaurant, Smokehouse 1776, which sparked controversy in 2017 when The Daily Beast reported that dozens of people at a local rodeo in Colorado developed symptoms of food poisoning after eating pork at the restaurant.
A spokesman for Boebert’s campaign told The Daily Beast at the time that Smokehouse 1776 “did not receive a fine or any other type of disciplinary action” following a county health department inspection. The restaurant is no longer open.
Shooters Grill closed in 2022 after the restaurant’s landlord did not renew its lease. Bobert, a staunch gun rights activist, told the Post Independent at the time that she and her husband hoped to revive the Shooters brand through a different venture.
November 2020: Lauren Bobert is elected to the House of Representatives.
Lauren Bobert defeated Democratic challenger Diane Mitch Bush, becoming the first woman ever to represent Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.
That same year, she celebrated her 15th wedding anniversary in a post on Twitter.
“Happy anniversary to the most selfless man I know!” she wrote. “Thank you, Jason, for sticking with me through every season. I have learned by allowing our strengths to cover each other’s weaknesses that we are steadfast and steadfast. I love that I can live life with you by my side!”
August 2022: Lauren Bobert’s neighbors in Colorado called 911 after Jason Bobert ran over their mailbox during an argument.
On the evening of Aug. 4, a neighbor called 911 after asking one of Bobert’s sons to stop speeding down the street in a dune buggy, The Denver Post reported.
“He’s going about 50 miles an hour and it’s a residential street, there’s kids,” a neighbor told 911 dispatchers, according to calls obtained by the Post. “We tried to stop him and he was just swearing at us and just walked away.”
A second neighbor called 911, claiming that Jason Bobert had hit the neighbor’s mailbox with his truck and claimed that “somebody was swinging at his kid and nobody did.”
“I’m sure it’s loaded to the brim. Do you know who his wife is? Lauren Bobert. It is loaded. They all have guns,” a neighbor said in a 911 call obtained by The Denver Post. “He just stood chest to chest, face to face, looking for a fight.”
When Sheriff Lou Valario arrived on the scene, all parties “agreed to handle it as neighbors. No charges. No further action,” according to the Post.
Reps for Lauren Boebert did not respond to Insider’s requests for comment.
November 2022: Lauren Bobert narrowly wins re-election to Congress.
Jason Bobert joined his wife at the polling booth on Election Day along with their son Roman.
A recount confirmed Lauren Bobert won with 50.06 percent of the vote, while Democratic challenger Adam Frisch received 49.89 percent, CNN reported.
March 2023: Lauren Bobert announced that their 17-year-old son Tyler is expecting a baby with his girlfriend, making her a “36-year-old grandma.”
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee’s Women’s Breakfast, Bobert said she and her husband were “so excited to welcome this new life”, a baby boy, due in April.
“Now, any of you who have young children who are giving life, there are some questions that come up, there’s some fear that comes up,” she said. “Now my son, when I went up to him and said, ‘Tyler, I’m going to be a 36-year-old grandmother,’ he said, ‘Well, didn’t you make a grandmother a 36-year-old grandmother? ‘ “I said ‘Yes I did’. He said, “Okay then, it’s hereditary.”
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