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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Amanda Chase- 2022 Update [1]

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Date: 2022-08-19

Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase, who was hanging out with Stuart Rhodes and the Oathkeepers on January 5th, 2021.

On this date in both 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase, who represents District 11, and is pictured above using open carry firearms laws to ensure her protection as she submits bills on the floor of the Virginia State Senate where she has served since 2015.



Chase began brandishing her firearm as a “deterrent” to anti-immigration protesters who she imagined were out to kill her in January of 2019. It’s not only her firearm obsession, as she’s also decidedly against LGBTQ rights, having voted for marriage officiants to deny people same sex marriages, against bills that would prevent racial discrimination in housing, and also voted against bans on gay conversion therapy on minors.



She started her career palling around with former Congressman Dave Brat prior to him getting the boot from Virginia voters in 2018, and how she was openly talking about banning books from the state’s libraries that she took personal objection to. And ejecting anyone from a town hall who had the nerve to disagree with her or Brat.



Amanda Chase also has shown herself with contempt for law enforcement, such as when she was screaming at state capitol police for not getting to park wherever she pleases whenever she wants, and whining about the Equal Rights Amendment not being applied to her because of being denied drive-up access to the capitol. When the incident made the news with the official police report back in April of 2019, she referred to the police as “partisan liars”.



In July of 2019, she decided to get on Facebook to boast about her pistol-packing, and used it to point out that she hadn’t been raped, in a way that blamed rape victims for their own assaults:

But maybe you would expect someone to has referred to her gun as “my own ERA”, and the actual Equal Rights Amendment as “a ploy by the left to eliminate gender altogether”.



Then in September of 2019, two months prior to the Virginia off-year elections, she put her foot in her mouth again when she ran ads on Facebook about how she is “not afraid to shoot down” gun control groups. After immediate outrage, she admitted that her ad was poorly worded, and released a second version where she unironically declared “gun rights are women’s rights” while leaving in the more offensive statement.



In June of 2020, Chase made headlines yet again when during protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, she claimed calls to remove Confederate monuments were an “overt effort to erase white history”.

Guess it’s official, that she’s a white nationalist now, especially with how her Facebook page has become a frequent source of paranoid ramblings about Antifa.



During the Covid-19 pandemic, she went to a local restaurant, and when she was asked to wear a mask, she allegedly threatened to sue them because she had “a medical exemption” to wearing a mask per Virginia’s state mandate to so.. Y’know, the mask that you need to avoid the medical situation that is Covid-19. She dug in on this unscientific nonsense enough that when she refused to wear a mask on the floor of the Virginia State Senate, she forced the solution to create a plexiglass partition around her desk at taxpayer expense so that she wouldn’t spread respiratory droplets upon the rest of the people present. Rather than, y’know, wear a piece of cloth on her face.



Now, in a development that honestly should surprise no one, Amanda Chase was present during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. She has since lied and claimed that it was a “peaceful” rally and any violence was the result of operatives who infiltrated the protest to frame Trump supporters, referring to the domestic terrorists who stormed the building as “patriots”, saying that Ashli Babbit was “murdered” by police, and that “The insurrection is actually the deep state with the politicians working against the people to overthrow our government. She was censured for her presence, and her comments in the wake of the attack by the Virginia State Senate, with three Republicans joining Democrats to vote for it.



Chase tried suing to overturn her censure (she is becoming more impotently litigious), but was unsuccessful in her attempt.



Instead, she’s continued to promote “The Big Lie” about election fraud stealing Trump’s not-a-victory from him, and wants to do a repeat of the “fraudit” conducted in Arizona’s Maricopa County in her own state, because it wasn’t embarrassing enough when it happened in Phoenix.



Amanda Chase had a run for Governor of Virginia in 2021, finishing third in the nominating votes at her state party convention, which may have had something to do with her embarrassing her party further having an aide pull a gun on a constituent during a live online debate she was having on gun control. She responded to the announcement that the Virginia GOP would hold their primary in this method back in February by suing her own party, and having a judge quickly dismiss her groundless case.



So it seems like she might have some issues with them.



In 2022, Amanda Chase made an ill-fated run for Congress, seeking to unseat Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, but never even made it on the ballot. Maybe rallying people to her cause was difficult because she was facing scrutiny regarding her association with OathKeepers leader Stuart Rhodes (there’s video of them together on January 5th, a day before the Capitol attack, so good luck on playing dumb, Mandy).



Her seat in the Virginia State Senate will be up for re-election in 2023, and we’d like to think she won’t narrowly win another term, given all the, y’know, sedition and insanity.

One Year Ago, August 19th, 2021: Amanda Chase (VA)… 2021 Update

Two Years Ago, August 19th, 2020: Amanda Chase (VA)… 2020 Update

Three Years Ago, August 19th, 2019: Amanda Chase (VA)… Original Profile

Four Years Ago, August 19th, 2018: John Kasich (OH)… 2018 Update

Five Years Ago, August 19th, 2017: John Kasich (OH)… 2017 Update

Six Years Ago, August 19th, 2016: John Kasich (OH)… 2016 Update

Seven Years Ago, August 19th, 2015: John Kasich (OH)…Original Profile

Eight Years Ago, August 19th, 2014: Joe Wurzelbacher (OH)

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