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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Greg Pence- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-07-09
If a mob tried to hang your brother, you'd want to find those responsible and hold them accountable, right? NOT GOP CONGRESSMAN MIKE PENCE.
On this date in both 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the U.S. House Representative from Indiana’s 6th Congressional District, Greg Pence, who yes, is the older brother of former Vice President Mike Pence, whom Greg would call “Bubbles” in their youth. (Frankly, that’s the most humanizing thing I’ve ever heard about either Pence, who have all the charisma of jars of mayonnaise past their expiration.) Anyway, Mike Pence was the Congressman from Indiana’s 6th from 2003-2012, when he left Congress to become the abysmal Governor of Indiana, and Luke Messner took the baton for three terms… until 2018, when Messner made a failed run for U.S. Senate in Indiana, and Greg Pence stumbled out of his brother’s shadow to join the ranks of the obstructionist tools of the Republican Congressional Caucus.
Part of the reason Mike Pence became the more successful political story has to do with Greg’s record as a businessman, as he ran the family chain of Tobacco Road convenience stores in Indiana badly enough that they filed for bankruptcy, and ended up being fined $8.4 million because of environmental damage done by leaking underground storage tanks. Other than that, Greg Pence avoided reporters as if they were radioactive, did the bare minimum by being interviewed by a conservative radio talk show host where he could endorse Trump’s stupid idea for a border wall, and otherwise coast into Congress based on the family name.
Which somehow, was not the end of him having shady and outrageous business dealings… as the New York Times reported in 2019, since Greg Pence arrived in Washington, D.C., he frequently helps funnel money into the Trump Foundation, often by booking rooms at Trump’s DC hotel that he can pay for with campaign money. Whenever there’s been a Trump rally back in Indiana, he’s there to cheerlead (and his son is rumored to literally be doing that with chants at the rallies around the country). And whenever Donald Trump is in jeopardy in the House, like say, when the inquiry into Trump’s phone call with the President Ukraine was being investigated as a shakedown, he called it a “power grab”, or “bulls*** to the 4th degree”. (Watch the language, Greg, you might burn poor Bubbles’ virgin ears.)
Indiana’s 6th Congressional District has a +22 Republican lean, and yes, that’s a tie for the most conservative lean of any district in the state. Being boring, partisan, pathological liars is familial trait still meant he could win re-election with 69% of the vote, and go back to DC to do things like this:
We’re going to reiterate how soulless Greg Pence is by repeating something in the above… he voted against certifying the results of the 2020 election after the Capitol Attack, and voted against an independent commission being formed to investigate that same attack, where an armed mob of Trump supporters attempted to storm the halls of Congress, execute several leaders among them, including HIS OWN BROTHER.
He remained silent on supporting “Bubbles” until he was pressed about it in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju, and was willing to add the Vice President cannot just overturn the results of a presidential election.
Truly a noble soul, waiting until it was politically safer to support furthering his own little brother’s life upon this planet.
Why the voters of his district would think he would care about them at all… that’s the real mystery. They could, instead, vote for Democratic candidate Cynthia Wirth, but voting for anyone without an “R” next to their name might be something impossible for voters in this conservatively drawn district to do.
We’re still holding out hope reason can prevail going into November, instead of the GOP’s current brand of theocratic authoritarianism.
One Year Ago, July 9th, 2021: Greg Pence (IN)… 2021 Update
Two Year Ago, July 9th, 2020: Greg Pence (IN)… Original Profile
Three Years Ago, July 9th, 2019: Neal Tapio (SD)
Four Years Ago, July 9th, 2018: Luther Strange (AL)
Five Years Ago, July 9th, 2017: Mick Mulvaney (SC)… 2017 Update
Six Years Ago, July 9th, 2016: Mick Mulvaney (SC)… Original Profile
Seven Years Ago, July 9th, 2015: Randy Terrill (OK)
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