Boebert's stint on the customized video website might have broken guidelines as she's still an active member of Congress
Released November 26, 2024 3:14 PM (EST)
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) gets here for a hearing with Administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deanne Criswell at the Rayburn House Office Building on November 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Co) turned up on Cameo last weekend, charging $250 for individualized videos of herself imparting guidance and “pep talks” to curious users of the popular site finding themselves with cash to burn before the vacations. Her time on the website was short.
Following in the steps of Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who ended up being active on the website recently, and George Santos (R-N.Y.), who produced a profile after being booted from Congress, Boebert's existence was particularly significant as it marked the very first time a sitting member of Congress made use of the platform to make a little additional money. It ends up that's most likely what likewise resulted in her profile being pulled simply days later on.
On Tuesday early morning, it looks like though Boebert silently erased her Cameo profile following murmurings that it perhaps breached House guidelines, The Hill reports, because Boebert, unlike Gaetz and Santos, is still in Congress.
As the outlet highlights:
“While Ethics Committee guidelines state that members might make as much as $31,815 each year beyond their congressional wage, there are constraints on how they might do so. Among the guidelines in the standard procedure determines House members ‘might decline an honorarium for a speech, a composing for publication, or other comparable activity,' with a speech being specified as an ‘address, oration, talk, lecture, or other type of oral discussion, whether provided personally, sent digitally, taped, or broadcast over the media.'”
Neither Boebert's workplace nor Cameo have actually talked about the principles concerns surrounding Boebert's profile, since yet.
