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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: James Comer- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-07-29
U.S. House Rep. James Comer, of Kentucky's 1st Congressional District, who currently is more focused on Hunter Biden than solving any of our country's problems.
In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled James Comer, who was a GOP candidate for the Governor of Kentucky in the 2015 elections who somehow lost to cockfighting advocate Matt Bevin, as just before the primary, another candidate in the GOP field, Hal Heiner, accused Comer of abusing his girlfriend in college. While at first, this just seemed like an unsubstantiated slander, Comer’s college paramour, Marilyn Thomas, and her mother came forward to confirm the accusations, and add that Comer had also gotten her pregnant, and pressured her into getting an abortion. Which, guess what? Comer also claims to be pro-life without exceptions for rape, incest, or the mother’s life at risk… so that was not going to fly well for him. Comer ended up losing to Bevin in the primary by… 83 votes. Comer, as we noted in our write-up, is also pro-death penalty, opposes same-sex marriage, only wants abstinence-only sex education taught in schools, and has “A” ratings on his stance on guns from the NRA.
We thought Comer would have to lay low for a few years, or that his political career could be in jeopardy. Lo and behold, he almost immediately bounced back in the thick of Kentucky politics, and did not just run in the 2016 GOP Primary for the right to replace retiring Rep. Ed Whitfield for his seat for Kentucky’s 1st Congressional District… he HANDILY won that primary, with 61% of the vote in a four-way race. His biggest challenge was from second-place finisher Mike Pape, who FRED covered a little ways back for his grotesque ads with Mexican stereotypes sneaking across the border. Once Comer got out of the primary, he coasted to victory over Democrat Sam Gaskins with 73% of the vote, which makes sense what with the Cook Partisan Voting Index having a +24 Republican lean measured for Kentucky’s 1st District.
James Comer was placed on the House Oversight Committee after making his way to Washington, D.C., but it doesn’t seem like he takes that responsibility too seriously, based on this May 2017 interview where he does his best to blow off the revelation of what was in former FBI Director James Comey’s memos, and chalks up most of the things Comey claims Donald Trump says that are highly inappropriate if not things that would qualify obstruction of justice in the Trump/Russia investigation as Trump “was just joking”. Because we’ve all heard that knee-slapper about Michael Flynn and how we should “let this thing go”. Perfect punchline, right?
It’s that sort of cluelessness that has Comer already facing crowds of angry constituents at his town halls, as he’s already been shouted down twice since taking office, particularly on the issue of healthcare. But it’s not just at town halls where James Comer has seen things get heated. He’s currently the target of a lawsuit after he began taunting and threatening the job of a legislative aide from the Kentucky state legislature who reported Jeff Hoover (who we’ll get around to giving a FRED profile to somewhere down the road) for sexual harassment, leading to his resignation. So, an old colleague’s improper behavior isn’t something Comer would like whistleblower protections to apply to, and he’d rather seek out retribution. Isn’t that cute?
James Comer coasted to re-election in 2020 with 75% of the vote. He thus returned to the capitol to try and stop any progress from taking place in our nation:
James Comer seems to have settled into being a Congressman for the foreseeable future, as he passed on hopping into the 2019 Governor’s race in Kentucky, even though a rematch with Matt Bevin in the GOP Primary would have been far easier for him to win, given how terrible of a job Bevin did (and why he lost to Democrat Andy Beshear). Comer was promoted to be the ranking Republican member of the House Oversight Committee in 2020 (i.e., “do your best to make sure there isn’t any as long as Trump is in office”).
He currently seems content to spread the sorts of aggrieved white privilege that Fox News can’t get enough of, falsely claiming that “crime is on the rise because Democrats are defunding the police”, which isn’t a cause, or effect based in reality, or say, when he cheers on extremely toxic and intoxicated Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo for spreading lies about Hunter Biden that he shares on social media.
It bears watching if he tries to run for Governor of Kentucky in 2023 or not, but his 2022 opponent, Democrat Jimmy Ausbrooks will need nothing short of a miracle to upset Comer in a highly conservative district that Comer won re-election to two years ago by a mere fifty point margin.
One Year Ago, July 29th, 2021: James Comer (KY)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, July 29th, 2020: James Comer (KY)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, July 29th, 2019: James Comer (KY)… 2019 Update
Four Years Ago, July 29th, 2018: James Comer (KY)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, July 29th, 2017: James Comer (KY)… 2017 Update
Six Years Ago, July 29th, 2016: James Comer (KY)… 2016 Update
Seven Years Ago, July 29th, 2015: James Comer (KY)… Original Profile
Eight Years Ago, July 29th, 2014: Harley Brown (ID)
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