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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Jim Banks- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-08-02
U.S. House Rep. Jim Banks, of Indiana's 3rd Congressional District, who was been trusted by his party to provide "the Jan. 6th response".
On this date in both 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published its first profile of the U.S. House Representative from Indiana’s 3rd Congressional District, Jim Banks, who was first elected back in 2016, when we entered the darkest timeline. Prior to that, he entered the political arena in the Tea Party Wave back in 2010, served six years in the Indiana State Senate, and in his time in Hoosier State politics, he voted against the Medicaid Expansion, co-sponsored a bill to drug test welfare recipients, another bill to defund Planned Parenthood in Indiana, and helped pass an anti-choice bill extreme enough that it required women to bury or cremate fetal remains that was quickly overturned by the courts. He is also a tool of ALEC, having been their errand boy to bring forth right-to-work legislation.
Indiana’s 3rd Congressional District has a +18 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, tied for the most conservative district in what is a decidedly red state. That helped Jim Banks coast to victory in the 2020 elections with 68% of the vote. He has continued to prove himself an extremist in votes for the past two years:
As late as May 9th, Jim Banks was still on Fox News and questioning whether or not Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election (BIDEN F***ING DID) and defending his decision to vote against certifying the election results. That probably had a lot to do with why House Minority Leader and craven s***heel Kevin McCarthy appointed Banks to be on the commission to investigate the January 6th attack on the Capitol in a move equivalent to naming the Riddler to be on a select panel to investigate rising crime rates in Gotham City. Banks was summarily rejected by Nancy Pelosi like Giannis Antetokounmpo swatting away a layup into the crowd at a Bucks game.
Jim Banks is still licking his wounds over that, and will likely be fundraising on his “victimhood” that he’s not allowed so sabotage any investigation into 1/6 from within as he goes on conservative media venues to try and claim that somehow, the lack of security on 1/6/21 was Pelosi’s fault (even through the Capitol Police are not under her command).
Banks vociferous defense of Trump and every bit of failed obfuscation he’s attempted in the press disgusted folks enough back in his district that a legal challenge was filed against him being on the ballot because his words and actions were arguably enough to qualify as proof that he had violated his oath to the Constitution, and was supporting the failed insurrection/coup attempt, thus he shouldn’t be eligible to run for office for having violated the 14th Amendment. Sadly, such challenges to Republicans like Banks are getting dismissed in court.
Did Jim Banks take this as a warning to maybe dial back the seditious talk? NOPE. He’s been “leading the Jan. 6th response” for the Republican Party, and based on public reaction, he’s not exactly convincing anyone. But, as Indiana’s 3rd Congressional District has a +18 Republican lean, regardless of Banks’ dedication to those carrying out a coup attempt, it could be a tough hill to climb for his Democratic opponent, Gary Snyder, to unseat him.
Which is the real travesty in this, that most Republicans won’t come to their senses about those who perpetrated the attack, or those who defend the attackers.
One Year Ago, August 2nd, 2021: Jim Banks (IN)… 2021 Update
Two Year Ago, August 2nd, 2020: Jim Banks (IN)… Original Profile
Three Year Ago, August 2nd, 2019: Michael Folk (WV)… 2019 Update
Four Year Ago, August 2nd, 2018: Michael Folk (WV)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, August 2nd, 2017: Pete Nielsen (ID)
Six Years Ago, August 2nd, 2016: Michael Folk (WV)… Original Profile
Seven Years Ago, August 2nd, 2015: Scott Renfroe (CO)
Eight Years Ago, August 2nd, 2014: Stephen Broden (TX)
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