On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Ted Crockett, the former Shelby County Commissioner who was a 2018 candidate for the Alabama House of Representatives from District 45. Ted Crockett is the former spokesman for Roy Moore during his ill-fated attempt to get elected to the Senate, Crockett defended the worst of Moore’s racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and yes, all the accusations of him spending his 30s sexually pursuing underage girls. In the process, Crockett taught us all a lot about him, as well, including his belief that homosexuality should be a crime. Only a year later, Ted Crockett was running for the Alabama House of Representatives, and continued being a theocratic loon, including insisting that Muslims should not be allowed to run for public office, because they refuse to swear on a Bible… which Jake Tapper had to point out to him that the law does not necessitate the book in question being a Bible, and it is chosen by the political figure. Upon learning this fact, Crockett was just completely befuddled. Alarmingly, Crockett only missed being elected in the GOP Primary by about 700 votes.
On this date in 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Jo Rae Perkins, who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. House of Representatives in Oregon’s 4th Congressional District in 2014, 2016, and 2018, losing each time to the also bats*** Republican Art Robinson in the GOP Primary for that seat. She has run afoul of the law before, having been charged with harassment and hindering prosecution in 2005, and twice filed for personal bankruptcy, in 1997 and 2009. But recently, she was a 2020 Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Oregon candidate who yes, is the latest in a far too line of folks we’ve profiled who ran for office while being supporters of the Qanon Conspiracy theory. Just in case you think she might not actually believe in something so stupid, and was just milking the hype for potential votes, she swore an oath to Qanon online, promising to be a “digital soldier” for them, and specifically mentioned them in her victory speech after the GOP Primary. When CNN went to interview her about her reprehensible belief in it, she was bewildered to see the reporters who showed up were wearing masks during the Covid-19 pandemic and let them know they “didn’t work”. Joe Rae Perkins got a far too high total of 39% of the vote in the 2020 election. She made another run for U.S. Senate again in 2022, looking to unseat Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, but her path to victory looks pretty much blocked given that she has posted video of herself in attendance at the January 6th rally that devolved into a violent coup attempt being carried out on behalf of Donald Trump. To give you an idea of how extremely conservative the eastern portion of a blue state like Oregon is, they still voted for her in 2020, and she one a third of the counties in the state. We will set aside her profile at this time to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1104-55, since this was established in July 2014.
Will Dismukes
Welcome to what is the 1104th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Will Dismukes, who has been a member of the Alabama House of Representatives for District 88 since first winning office back in 2018, and has aspirations for higher office, evidenced by his brief run in the GOP Primary in 2020 to see if he could elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District. Will Dismukes used to be an intern in the Alabama state legislator for
Where do we even begin with Will Dismukes? Well, let’s start with how he seems like he’s a fan of the Ku Klux Klan, what with publicly appearing at events to celebrate the date of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s birthday, hosted by a speaker named Pat Godwin who, definitely makes the proceedings quite the little hate rally. Dismukes’ appearance at this event in 2020 was also when Alabama was busy laying former Congressman and Civil Rights hero John Lewis to rest in his native Alabama, the state where he also almost died crossing a bridge in his struggle for voting rights, but hey, Will Dismukes had to honor the founder of the Klan, PRIORITIES. When asked by the local media to look at his life, and look at his choices, Dismukes of course, played the victim:
Ah yes. Classic “anti-Southern sentiment” like, “The KKK is a hate group and no good person should attend their events, nor honor anyone who ever was a member of the Klan.” Truly, cancel culture gone OUT OF CONTROL not celebrating a Confederate war criminal’s birthday.
There were calls for Dismukes to resign, but of course he didn’t. He’s only thirty, and has decades of being a s***lord in the Yellowhammer state to get to. He did resign from being a pastor at his local branch of the Baptist church, but as it would turn out, that little schism with his church wouldn’t have had anything to do with his fan for hate group founders, but that he was alleged to have stolen money from his former employer, which is, again, a church.
Starting to get the feeling that this isn’t a nice person we’re profiling, you know?
So now we’ll mention that Dismuke was then arrested AGAIN and charged with felony theft AGAIN for allegedly stealing money from a flooring company where he worked.
We’ve established over several entries through the past several years not just that there’s a lot of right-wing extremism down in Alabama, but that the state is rife with corruption. You would think a guy twice indicted on felony theft charges who shows up to honor Klan leaders might be forced out of office and call it a career, right? Well, Dismukes did intend on not running for re-election in an announcement in January of 2022, but no, according to Ballotpedia, he is in the GOP Primary and trying to win back his seat (assuming he stays out of jail).
So that’s allowed Dismukes to stay in office to co-sponsor and/or vote for legislation to make it a felony to give gender-affirming therapy to minors, ban transgender kids from youth sports, anti-choice legislation, and voter suppression bills.
If there’s any hope for Alabama, it will be that this dips*** does not win a second term in office.