Rep. Lauren Boebert has flatly denied sworn ethics allegations that she carried on sexual relationships with three congressional staffers.
Boebert, 38, told Sources Say News last week that the claims were baseless, declaring her sexual orientation as part of her rebuttal. The Colorado Republican faces the complaint from American Muckrakers, a political action committee that has targeted her for years.
“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,” she said in the interview.
Her office separately called the accusations “utterly false.”
David Wheeler, who leads American Muckrakers, filed the complaint on Thursday. It names three former and current aides: former district director Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, former chief of staff Jeffrey Small, and current chief of staff Raven Finegan. Both Navarro Ratzlaff and Small departed Boebert’s office in 2025; Finegan remains in her position.
Wheeler alleges that Boebert’s involvement with Navarro Ratzlaff began in 2021 and persisted through the aide’s tenure. He claims their encounters occurred in campaign-funded hotel rooms and that Navarro Ratzlaff received $200,000 in March of last year to stay silent after threatening an ethics complaint of her own.
The complaint draws on House disclosures and anonymous sources, according to Wheeler.
Navarro Ratzlaff has forcefully rejected the allegations. She told the Colorado Times Recorder that the claims are “entirely false, defamatory, and beyond ridiculous. There is absolutely no truth to any part of this claim.”
House rules prohibit members of Congress from sexual relationships with their staffers, a ban enacted in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Lawmakers have spent the past year pushing to extend that prohibition to additional staff positions as well.
Boebert has previously weighed in on Capitol Hill’s recurring sex scandals. In April, she posted on social media asking, “why is everybody so horny” in Congress.
The congresswoman’s personal conduct has drawn national attention before. In 2023, she was removed from a Denver performance of “Beetlejuice” after surveillance cameras captured her groping Quinn Gallagher, her then-boyfriend and a registered Democrat, during the show. The pair also violated theater rules by vaping and taking photographs. Boebert later apologized for the incident, and voters returned her to office in 2024. She and Gallagher have since split.
Boebert, a mother of four, represents Colorado’s 4th congressional district after switching from the 3rd district ahead of the 2024 cycle.