Justin Hill (R-Lake St. Louis)
Missouri House of Representatives
Photo credit: Missouri House of Represenatatives
(clown face added)
Kansas City Star, 3/31/2021
The competition for the looniest argument against expanding Medicaid in Missouri was stiff Tuesday, but state Rep. Justin Hill, a Republican, took the prize.
Hill, from Lake St. Louis, wandered away from the outer edges of sanity some time ago. He skipped his own swearing-in to attend the insurrectionist rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. He has repeatedly questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election.
He wants to trash Missouri’s nonpartisan court system, because of course Missouri can’t abide impartial judges.
Tuesday, during the House debate on Medicaid expansion, Hill slapped his voters in the face.
“Even though my constituents voted for this lie, I’m going to protect them,” he said. “I am proud to stand against the will of the people.”
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2/22/2021 update starts here
Median household income: $100,688
Anne Vanker
Brdige Michigan, 2/22/2021
Vanker’s book club is composed of women like her: She’s 55, a former executive manager for Johnson & Johnson and a native of Grosse Pointe, an affluent and predominantly white community that is an unlikely breeding ground for what experts call the radicalization of the Republican Party.
On the northeast border of Detroit, the five Grosse Pointe communities — with a collective 46,000 residents — have a history of well-heeled exclusivity that some call old-fashioned racism. Pristine parks and award-winning public schools are open to residents-only and, over the years, the Pointes have erected moat-like canals, farmer market sheds and other barriers along the Detroit border.Vanker believes the COVID-19 vaccine has “nanoparticles and antennas that feed stuff up into the cloud.”
2/16/2021 update, "Washington County PA chair pissed at Sen. Toomey for doing the right thing", starts here.
David Ball
Newsweek, 2/16/2021
"We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing," Ball said. "We sent him there to represent us."
Trump received 10,694 more votes than he did in 2016, a 17% increase. Biden received 8,766 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, a 24% increase.
Trump's share of the vote increased by 0.8 percentage points. Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote by 2.6 percentage points.
Keep flappin' yer jaws, David, as you are a great asset for Democratic party membership recruitment in Washington County.
2/15/2021 update starts here
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
“The president is simply not guilty,” Scott said Monday on Fox News. “I was in the chamber when the rioters were coming over. I was taking my jacket off, my tie off, rolling my sleeves up, just in case I had to fight. The chances of me understanding and appreciating the severity of the situation is 100%. The one person I don’t blame is President Trump.”
2/10/2021 update, "Michigan State State Majority Leader willingly steps into a pile of shit", starts here.
Mike Shirkey
TribLive, 2/10/2021
And now for the clean-up.
“I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve,” he said in a statement. “I own that. I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them. I regret the words I chose, and I apologize for my insensitive comments.”
The statement did not specify which remarks led him to be apologetic.
2/9/2021 update, "Meet the Maddocks, Michigan's GOP royal couple, unregenerate racists", starts here.
Matt and Meshawn
Detroit Free Press, 1/12/2021
New York Times, 2/6/2021
But the battle over what degree of loyalty to Mr. Trump is appropriate revolved less around Mr. Weiser than his designated choice for vice chair of the party, Meshawn Maddock, who formed the Michigan Conservative Coalition and is the head of Women for Trump in Michigan.
She was a vocal opponent of the Michigan election results and protested at the TCF Center in Detroit while absentee ballots were being counted there. She spoke at a Trump rally in Washington on Jan. 5 and had organized dozens of Trump supporters headed to the rally on Jan. 6 that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
2/3/2021 update, 'This is what white privilege looks like", starts here.
Jenny Louise Cudd
Note the heading: "TRAVEL NEWS"
USA Today, 2/3/2021
"So what they're trying to do is cancel me because I stood up for what I believe in and I can tell you this it's – and it's what I've told everybody – I would do it again in a heartbeat," Cudd said.
1/20/2021 Wisconsin edition featuring former Burlington school board member Phil Ketterhagen starts here.
Phil Ketterhagen
Racine Journal Times, 1/19/2021
RACISM ON DISPLAY. Ketterhagen equates classroom instruction about Black Lives Matter with the 'voter integrity' lies and disinformation that led to an attempted coup in Washington D.C. Former School Board member Phil Ketterhagen told district officials that their actions against Taff were “bordering on censorship.”
Ketterhagen alluded to a similar situation last fall in which a Burlington teacher was not disciplined for teaching a lesson about racial justice issues to her fourth-graders that touched on the Black Lives Matter movement. “Your prior actions make this a hypocritical scenario,” Ketterhagen wrote. “The thought of an administration questioning just such an event is censorship of free speech.”
Kevin Hermining
Photo credit: Hermening Financial Group (clown face added)
Green Bay Press Gazette, 1/18/2021
For some Republicans, though, future elections will serve as a referendum on officials who, contrary to the beliefs of their constituents, rejected claims of election fraud, said Kevin Hermening, treasurer of the Republican Party of Marathon County.
"I don’t know a single Republican, not one, who believes that the vote totals in November were fairly counted," he said.Kevin reminds me of a college friend, who on November 8, 1972, shared the following reaction to the previous day's election: "I can't believe Nixon won. Everyone I know voted for McGovern."
Kevin's a big donor to GOP and conservative candidates.
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