It was one of the more bizarre stories in US politics of 2023 (and that’s saying something) but Colorado Republican Rep Lauren Boerbert’s date night at a regional production of the Broadway musical Beetlejuice certainly made more headlines than you might have expected for its combination of sensationalism and hypocrisy.
The rightwing lawmaker, who was re-elected by a slim margin in November 2022, had to issue an apology for not telling the truth about an incident that saw her thrown out of a Denver theatre in mid-September 2023.
