Sunday, April 4, 2021

Missouri GOP serves up a heaping helping of bonkers

 

John Simmons (R-Washington) 
Missouri House of Representatives

Kansas City Star, 4/4/2021
"I hate the term when we say we're a democracy, we are a constitutional representative republic.  People voted us in in November, too," Rep. John Simmons, a Washington Republican sponsoring one meaure to resgtrict the filing of initiaitve petitions, said.
Simmons ran unopposed in 2020, won by 33 percentage points in 2018.

Justin Hill (R-Lake St. Louis) 
Missouri House of Representatives

Photo creditBallotpedia

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.”

In November 2020, Hill won re-election to a 4th term by nearly 30 percentage points.  'Bonkers' extended to GOP voters. 


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