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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Jodey Arrington- 2022 Update [1]

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Date: 2022-08-20

U.S. House Rep. Jodey Arrington, of Texas' 19th Congressional District, an a "ride or die" Trump supporter.

It was on this date in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” shared its first profile about the sitting U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 19th Congressional District, Jodey Arrington, the man who just took the place of FRED alumni Randy Neugebauer for his seat in Congress. Nine Republicans were in the GOP primary to replace Neugebauer, and Arrington emerged based on the political capitol he build up working first for George W. Bush as an aide while he was still Governor of Texas and in the Bush White House, and helping him fill up executive appointed posts during his administration. That included the choice of hiring a man named Michael Brown as head of FEMA, whose only experience was breeding horses. Remarkably, this led to Arrington being thrown into the fire to clean up the Gulf Coast after Brown had to resign in disgrace, where Arrington served as deputy federal coordinator for the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding. Now, in an election year where it benefitted more candidates to be the political outsider on the conservative side, it might seem odd that Arrington still managed to narrowly win his primary on a run-off. Well, in spite of maintaining his strong Bush Administration credentials, he also won a Breitbart endorsement by doing, what else? Taking a trip down to the U.S./Mexico border and talking tough about illegal immigrants. As it turns out, the now Rep. Arrington’s disdain for Mexicans was not something he just did in campaign mode, as he has gone on record as a supporter of Donald Trump’s stupid-@ss border wall. But his support of xenophobia is not limited only to Mexicans, though, because Arrington also came out in defense of Trump’s bigoted Muslim ban when it was announced. Hell, Arrington’s drinking Trump’s Kool-Aid so much it looks like he’s visiting Jonestown, as he gave Trump’s First 100 Days in office an “A”.



But what Jodey Arrington did that is completely new for him (but sadly not for Republicans), happened back in late March 2017. Arrington, in a hearing on SNAP benefits, quoted the Bible’s 2 Thesslalonians 3:10, “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.” Now, there are wiser and more well-versed Biblical experts will point out that Jesus was pretty much the guy who was ALL ABOUT FEEDING THE HUNGRY, Jodey Arrington is the latest Republican to use this verse out of context to take away food stamp benefits that, guess what? All too often go towards feeding CHILDREN. See also former FRED profiles on Kevin Cramer and Stephen Fincher for others who tried twisting scripture out of context to turn it into something resembling a religion Ayn Rand would have possibly been into.



Even Arrington’s constituents are starting to question his level of extremism, including local firefighters in his district expressing disbelief that he would vote against the bill to provide medical care to the 9/11 First Responders. Jodey Arrington, ever the douche-canoe, started lying out of his arse and claiming that his vote was justified because of “questionable” claims that seemed to indicate there was “waste and fraud”.



For those in the back not listening, he all but accused some the 9/11 First Responders of “faking it” for more money. There is not a big enough foreign object we can recommend he goes and f***s himself with for that.



Jodey Arrington was one of the loudest members of the Texas delegation giving the worst advice in 2020, Covid-19 pandemic. Like how he boasted about how he fully expected “Texas to lead in the nation’s recovery”. (SPOILER ALERT: Texas became one of the top three Covid-19 hotspots after carelessly reopening businesses) Maybe that’s why we’re also concerned that Arrington wanted to send kids back to school in August of 2020 to allow parents to “return to work”. Y'know, before there were vaccines available.



Now, what do you think Arrington is doing right now as Texas Republicans’ anti-mask/keep-everything-open/question vaccines strategy approach to Covid-19 made them one of the hottest hot spots for the virus in the country? Well, this white nationalist motherf***er is trying to blame it on illegal immigrants coming into the United States, even though Mexico’s vaccination rate is higher than Texas’, as are their Covid positivity rates right now.



This dips*** would put his hand on a hot stove, get burned, put it back on the stove, and then claim Mexicans seared him with a branding iron. He can f*** right off.



Now in his second term in office, Jodey Arrington’s streak of partisanship continues:

Headed into the November mid-term elections, Jodey Arrington has a +26 lean to his district, and both of his opponents in the general election have no party affiliation. Whether or not someone could overcome that partisan lean… it would be stunning to pull it off.

Then again, maybe Jodey Arrington coming out and declaring Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate being raided by the FBI to recover classified documents he stole and kept refusing to return as the result of “political corruption” on the FBI and DOJ.

Yeah, Jodey Arrington is a “Ride or Die” Trump Republican, make no mistake.

One Year Ago, August 20th, 2021: Jodey Arrington (TX)… 2021 Update

Two Years Ago, August 20th, 2020: Jodey Arrington (TX)… 2020 Update

Three Years Ago, August 20th, 2019: Jodey Arrington (TX)… 2019 Update

Four Years Ago, August 20th, 2018: Jodey Arrington (TX)… 2018 Update

Five Years Ago, August 20th, 2017: Jodey Arrington (TX)… Original Profile

Six Years Ago, August 20th, 2016: Randy Neugebauer (TX)… 2016 Update

Seven Years Ago, August 20th, 2015: Randy Neugebauer (TX)…2015 Update

Eight Years Ago, August 20th, 2014: Randy Neugebauer (TX)…Original Profile

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