{"id":49236,"date":"2021-01-18T04:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boeberts-spokesman-resigns-after-less-than-a-month-citing-capitol-riot\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:46:28","slug":"boeberts-spokesman-resigns-after-less-than-a-month-citing-capitol-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boeberts-spokesman-resigns-after-less-than-a-month-citing-capitol-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Boebert\u2019s spokesman resigns after less than a month, citing Capitol riot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=05fb22b7-5de0-4c23-a2ce-ee891d3889c0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1150\" alt=\"Lauren Boebert, candidate for U.S. House, District 3, makes a campaign stop in Oct. 23 at the Wild Horse Saloon in Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Lauren Boebert, candidate for U.S. House, District 3, makes a campaign stop in Oct. 23 at the Wild Horse Saloon in Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The spokesman for U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has resigned less than two weeks after the Republican congresswoman from Colorado was sworn into office.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Goldey confirmed his departure to The Colorado Sun after it was first reported on Saturday by Axios. Goldey did not respond to additional questions from The Sun, but he told Axios that he was leaving in the wake of a deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the events of January 6th, I\u2019ve decided to part ways with the office,\u201d Goldey told Axios. \u201cI wish her and the people of Colorado\u2019s Third District the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boebert, of Rifle, has been the subject of national headlines since taking office earlier this month because of her vows to carry a handgun at the Capitol and in Washington, D.C., and because of her efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. She was also accused of live tweeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s movements during the insurrection last week.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Boebert has been attacked by Democrats in Congress and faced calls from local Democratic officials in her district to resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office does not comment on internal personnel matters with individual employees,\u201d Jeff Small, Boebert\u2019s chief of staff, told The Colorado Sun on Saturday. \u201cRep. Boebert has hired a powerhouse team, filled all staff positions in her office and hit the ground running. Rep. Boebert looks forwarding to focusing on and serving the interests of the people of the Third Congressional District.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldey\u2019s replacement has already been hired. Boebert\u2019s staff is largely made up of former staffers of former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican, and President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Goldey confirmed his departure to The Colorado Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87545,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49236\/revisions\/87545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49236"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}