Lauren Boebert Doubles Down on "Pimp Cane" Comment

U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert is no stranger to bad behavior at presidential speeches before Congress (much less Beetlejuice productions in Denver). Wearing a "drill baby drill" jacket, she joined then-bestie and fellow mean girl Marjorie Taylor Greene in heckling then-President Joe Biden during his 2022 State of the Union address.

But Boebert was quick to attack Congressman Al Green for his own actions during President Donald Trump's speech on March 4, which led to the Texas representative being forcibly removed from the chamber and subsequently censured by House Republicans (and ten Democrats). That wasn't enough for Boebert, though; she then went on Real America's Voice on March 7 to say that 78-year-old Green, who is Black, was shaking "his pimp cane" at Trump and "absolutely abhorent."

In response, Representative Chrissy Houlahan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, filed a resolution Monday, March 10, asking that Boebert be censured, too. “After my discussion on the House floor last week when Speaker Johnson told me he’d have to censure half the members if he actually enforced the rules of the Congress, I decided to help, and tonight introduced a resolution to censure Representative Boebert," Houlahan said.

Here's the text of that resolution:

Censuring Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado for her recent disparaging and derogatory comments about Representative Al Green of Texas

Whereas on March 7, 2025, during an interview with Real America’s Voice News, Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado said “For him to go and shake his pimp cane” about another Member, Representative from Texas, Mr. Al Green;

Whereas the words of the Representative from Colorado are disparaging, derogatory, and racist toward another colleague, and are a breach of proper conduct and decorum of the U.S. House of Representatives

Resolved, That—

(1) Representative Lauren Boebert be censured;

(2) Representative Lauren Boebert forthwith present herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure; and

(3) Representative Lauren Bobert be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker.

Boebert has shaken off criticism before, and she didn't hesitate to go after Houlahan, an equal opportunity critic who'd voted to censure Green, too.
In a return appearance on Real America's Voice March 10, Bobert suggested that "maybe Houla-who is really the racist here. Are only Blacks pimps? Is that what I’m hearing? Are there no cisgender, white pimps in America?”

She wasn't done with Green, either. “I have never seen Al Green actually use his cane as a support to walk. I have seen him shake it for years all throughout the Capitol during any meeting that I’ve ever been present with him," she said. “If that gold-plated cane isn’t a pimp cane, I don’t know what is."

But back to Houlahan. "Listen, it was a little slight to his cane and his gesture — his cane that was wielded at the president of the United States — and you know what, if she wants to censure me over it, go ahead and try, girlfriend," Boebert concluded. "I have the American people who will show up, who will donate and who will reelect me."

And there's still a whole lotta shaking going on.