On this date in both
2019, as well as
2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled
David Eastman, a current member of the Alaska House of Representatives first elected to office in 2016 after a failed attempt to win a seat on the Alaska State Senate back in 2012. His district is better known as the little Alaskan hamlet known as Wasilla, aka the wellspring that gave our nation
Sarah Palin. And yeah, there might be something in the water in that burg.
David Eastman came to our attention here at CSGOPOTD because of the extent of his anti-choice fervor. It isn’t just that this upstart GOP legislator
literally compares abortion to slavery, and in his one term and change in office, Eastman has already become known as the lunatic willing to be the one lone “no” vote on several pieces of bi-partisan legislative ideas, including
honoring African Americans of the Vietnam War, being
the lone vote against honoring the African American workers who built the Alaska Highway, and
he once submitted an amendment to a bill aimed at raising awareness for sexual assault and child abuse that required that abortion would be referred to as a form of “child abuse”.
That’s still not all, Eastman is really “out there” on abortion. In an interview back in May of 2017, only a few months into his first term in office, he gave his opinion that there are women trying to deliberately get pregnant because they can use an abortion as a means to get a “
free vacation” to come down to Anchorage:
So that little statement was enough to earn Eastman a censure from at the state legislature, and he dug in and refused to apologize for it. Amid the controversy,
a legislative aide at the capitol who just resembled Eastman died his natural red hair blonde just to avoid catching hell from people who mistook him for Eastman. Alaska Republicans have also come to realize that Eastman is a corruption scandal waiting to happen, as by the end of his first term in office, he had
committed an ethics violation by leaking information from a confidential state report to a reporter as a means of trying to damage a Democratic colleague.
We’re wondering how David Eastman’s 2020 election fortunes are going to be, as the Alaska GOP is so sick of his s***, they’ve
placed him on probation (No word on if it's "double secret probation" or not) for his inane outbursts and obstruction, and have
removed him from all roles he plays in committees within the legislature. And yet… Eastman narrowly survived a primary challenger supported by the Alaska GOP in 2020 with
52% of the vote, before coasting to victory in November.
Eastman, however, was still aggrieved about the validity of the election he won another term in because Donald Trump did not win another second term to serve as an agent of chaos implanted by the Kremlin to run the United States, so he flew all the way from Wasila to Washington, DC to be
present at the Capitol during the “Stop the Steal” rally that posed as the legitimate face of the violent coup attempt carried out against members of Congress by Trump supporters on January 6th, 2021. He had the sheer brass balls to claim that he saw no signs of violence on the rotunda that day.
Then again, people do seem to be of the opinion that David Eastman’s head is waaaay up his arse, so that might explain it.