On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of the current U.S. House Representative from Washington’s 8th Congressional District, Dave Reichert, a former police officer who fell all over himself to take credit for catching the Green River Serial Killer (in spite of botching the case for years until the murderer’s body count was approaching triple digits), and for using over-aggressive tactics on protesters at the 1999 World Trade Organization conference that led to the situation escalating into “The Battle for Seattle” (where he abandoned his post when cameras showed up to chase after looters). Reichert ran sexist campaign ads against Darcy Burner in both 2006 and 2008, has been caught on tape joking about Hillary Clinton falling to her death out of a plane, and told fellow Republicans they should “be worried about Barack Obama stealing money out of your wallets”. His voting record is widely conservative, including votes against Dodd-Frank, against regulating offshore oil rigs after the Deepwater Horizon incident, voting against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and consistently voting against the Affordable Care Act (lying about its success whenever he gets the chance). Oh, and Reichert, always quick to defend police violence and extend unconditional support for law enforcement, as an ex-cop himself, celebrated National Police Week in March 2016 by taking to the floor of the House to give a speech called “Blue Lives Matter”, a deliberate slap in the face at the “Black Lives Matter” movement, because of course he did. Dave Reichert decided to retire from office in 2018, rather than face down the Blue Wave.
On this date in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Nick Miccarelli, a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who served District 162 in that body from 2009-2018. It wasn’t Miccarelli’s voting record that stood out to us so much, with your basic Republican support for anti-choice regulations, voter suppression efforts with unnecessary Voter ID laws, and opposition to firearm regulations. Now, where Nick Miccarelli really drew our attention was the series of allegations brought against him during his career as a legislator. A fellow Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Tarah Toohill, got an order of protection against Miccarelli, citing two separate incidents where he threatened her life. In one, in 2012, he pulled a gun on her. In another, in 2014, he threatened to crash a car both were in where he was speeding at 100 MPH. A legislative aide also reported being sexually assaulted by Miccarelli. and while retaliating against the woman who reported him having raped her, Miccarelli allegedly decided to attempt to silence her in the most classy of methods… revenge porn, naming his accuser and providing nude photos of her to media outlets. He refused to resign even though politicians from both sides of the aisle called on him to do so, because he’s enough of a motherf***er that he still wanted to finish out the last few months of his term and qualify for his benefits as a legislator. That proved difficult, though, considering Toohill had a restraining order against him, he was yanked from all his committee assignments, and he was about as much of a pariah as someone could be. Nick Miccarelli’s career is over, and we’re going to be ready to hand anyone the largest hammer we can find should he attempt to pop up in a game of MeToo Whack-A-Mole in a couple years.
On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”
profiled the appointed U.S. Senator from Georgia Kelly Loeffler, who we predicted was unlikely to be that for more than the six months to come thereafter. She became Senator Loeffler back in January of 2020, with her previous experience in politics being “nothing” and her husband being the head of the NYSE while she was the owner of the WNBA team the Atlanta Dream. This appointment was not without controversy in Republican circles, as
Donald Trump wanted his sycophantic lackey Doug Collins to be named the next Senator from Georgia, but the vote-stealin’ wonder, Gov.
Brian Kemp picked Loeffler based on thinking from stalwarts within the Republican Party, who thought having a good female Senator would help them win back votes from women in the Georgia suburbs in 2020 to hang onto this Senate seat, and not see it flipped blue.
Loeffler started trying to garner some favor with the Trump administration by coming out in favor of his stupid f***ing vanity project, the border wall, and it seemed like maybe she could coast into a permanent seat on the Senate. There was just one problem with Kemp and the mainstream GOP’s thinking… Kelly Loeffler doesn’t really seem to have any ethical compass, whatsoever, and within six weeks after being sworn in, she went to a Senate Intelligence hearing on Covid-19, learned that the country was f***ed, and then
she and her husband just coincidentally started to immediately make million-dollar stock portfolio adjustments that seem almost certainly to be motivated by the upcoming pandemic. In other words, she violated the STOCK Act, and was insider trading, because pulling money out of tourism and putting it into tele-working is an AMAZING coincidence. She and other Republicans who got caught using a public health crisis as a money-making venture and was
facing calls to resign, which she ignored.
Kelly Loeffler had a unique strategy to try and hold onto her seat, to just be as racist as possible. Whether it was f
euding with the players on her own WNBA team over social justice issues, or to
blame the spread of Covid-19 on China, she continued to show herself to be a worse human being the longer she was in the spotlight as the election approached.
She ended up losing in the runoff election against the Reverend Rafael Warnock, getting only
49% of the vote, and spent the days that followed attacking the integrity of Georgia’s election results,
going along with Donald Trump’s Big Lie, and helping lay the seeds for the violent coup attempt carried out by Trump supporters on January 6th.
She finally flipped after seeing the rioters storm the Capitol, and word is, the whole experience has made her realize maybe she doesn’t want to be in politics, after all.
At this time, we’d like to wish this corrupt twit our heartiest “GOOD RIDDANCE” salutes.