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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Jody Hice- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-08-30
Soon-to-be-former Georgia Congressman Jody Hice, who is up to his eyeballs in sedition, and failed in his attempt to unseat Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger.
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Georgia’s 10th District, Jody Hice, who prior to his election to office in 2014, we warned that Pastor Hice had already made several controversial statements, such as arguing against the existence of a separation of church and state, referring to homosexuality as bestiality, and denying acknowledging that Islam was an actual religion, so therefore, in his mind, the First Amendment of the Constitution does not apply to Muslims.
While our update on Hice in 2015 was mostly a discussion of his abysmal voting record, we did pause to look at Hice’s further thoughts on what he considers the “so-called separation of church and state”, calling it a “false belief“, and that secular government causes increases in violence, gangs, and teen pregnancy. Hice, for a time, talked less, with the biggest focus of his power of a legislator being that he considers renaming parks after Nancy Reagan to be a higher priority to doing anything else to help the country, save for perhaps sponsoring Personhood legislation like the “Sanctity of Life Act”.
Since Donald Trump was inaugurated, Jody Hice was doing his best to provide cover for him regarding during the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, so much so that in a Fox News appearance on May 22nd, 2018, Hice called for “an investigation into the investigators” because he’s just so upset that Robert Mueller and his team keep finding out all the illegal things Trump and his campaign officials were doing to try to steal away the White House.
Hice was re-elected in 2020 with 63% of the vote, enjoying the +15 Republican lean that his district has. We will now review the past few years of Hice’s voting record to establish how alarmingly conservative he is:
Jody Hice might have annoyed members of the Republican Party establishment, as he was booted from the House Armed Services Committee in 2019 for supporting Jim Jordan and not Kevin McCarthy for their House leadership. However, they never ran a credible challenger against him, and he seems to have taken the hint that he’s going nowhere in Congress, instead, he’s looking to invest his focus in white supremacy through voter suppression, getting so angry about mail-in-voting factoring in to flip Georgia blue in 2020, he chose to run against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2022. And we’re thrilled to report that in that effort, Jody Hice came up short, and thus will mercifully no longer be in office come January of 2023.
We would like to wish him a hearty “GOOD RIDDANCE” salute at this time, and like so many other Republican seditionists that were touting Trump’s “Big Lie” if not outright offering comfort and aid to those who attacked the Capitol on January 6th… we can only hope he gets slapped around by the long arm of the law before all’s said and done as well. As it is, he’s currently fighting subpoenas to appear in court about it, but damned if we don’t love some consequences for ***holes.
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