Rep. Lauren Boebert accused protesters who confronted her outside the Western Conservative Summit of being paid to be there, and told them to 'get a job' after they chanted 'run and hide'.
The Republican lawmaker, 34, made her comments in an interview with Washington Examiner after a group protested outside the Colorado Christian University Centennial Institute's Western Conservative Summit in downtown Denver on Friday.
'Maybe this is their job. Maybe they're paid to do it,' said Boebert, who was one of the speakers at the summit.
'You see this from extreme leftist progressives because either this is their job, either they are paid to do it, or they have nothing better to do, they're sitting at home collecting a check, and this is their life.'
She added: 'I mean, I don't have time for that. You don't see conservatives doing things like this because we have families to take care of, we have jobs to work at, we have communities to grow. And that's our focus — not to destroy, but to build.'
Rep. Lauren Boebert appears at the "Frontier Freedom" 2021 Western Conservative Summit, held at the Hyatt Regency Denver on June 18 and 19, 2021
A man who protested at the event wore a T-shirt that reads: 'Lauren Boebert is a f**king terrorist'
Another man held a sign calling the conservatives attending the conference 'Nazi Scum'
A group of Denver Communists hold up their fists outside the conservative event on Friday
Protesters march and chant outside the Hyatt Regency Denver on June 18 as Rep. Lauren Boebert appears at the 'Frontier Freedom' 2021 Western Conservative Summit, held on June 18 and 19, 2021
A woman, pictured, chanted for Boebert to 'run and hide' through a megaphone at the event
Protesters march and chant outside the Hyatt Regency Denver on June 18 as Rep. Lauren Boebert appears at the 'Frontier Freedom' 2021 Western Conservative Summit, held on June 18 and 19, 2021
Protesters defaced the Hyatt building in Denver with symbols for 'anarchy' and communism
Lauren Boebert is pictured in two promotional photos for the conservative event
Boebert also laid out her criticisms on Twitter while responding to a video that shows a protester chanting 'run and hide' and 'Lauren Boebert stay inside.'
'I feel sorry for her cats,' Boebert quipped in her reply.
The two-day event limited in-person attendance to 500 people but was also streamed online.
VIP passes cost $500 and the summit featured speakers such as former acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf and anti-abortion activist Lila Rose.
Demonstrators outside of the event were members of the Denver Communists group, according to a flyer posted by Examiner reporter Emily Brooks.
'Our general approach is to outnumber and outshine the far right,' the flyer reads. 'We want to send these worms back into their holes, demoralized and isolated'
One demonstrator even wore a shirt that read: 'Lauren Boebert is a f**king terrorist.'
Protesters at the event also defaced the Hyatt building in Denver with symbols for 'anarchy' and communism.
The protesters had a brief standoff with about 10 cops with the Denver Police Department who were in riot gear on Friday.
The protesters had a brief standoff with about 10 cops with the Denver Police Department who were in riot gear
Protesters march and chant outside the Hyatt Regency Denver on June 18 as Rep. Lauren Boebert appears at the 'Frontier Freedom' 2021 Western Conservative Summit, held on June 18 and 19, 2021
Protesters march and chant outside the Hyatt Regency Denver on June 18 as Rep. Lauren Boebert appears at the 'Frontier Freedom' 2021 Western Conservative Summit, held on June 18 and 19, 2021
Members of the Denver Communists posted a flyer outside the event about the frontier theme
Boebert also laid out her criticisms on Twitter writing: ' I feel sorry for her cats.'
Protesters called the officers 'Boebert's b***h boys,' videos from the event show, which Boebert slammed as going 'too far.'
'For them to attempt to attack me but to demoralize our police — that's disgusting,' Boebert told the Washington Examiner.
'That's not an attack on me. That's an attack on the men and women who get dressed every day to serve their communities, who sacrifice and risk their lives every day.'
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