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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Kevin Cramer [1]
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Date: 2022-09-13
Virtually every time U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, of North Dakota makes a public statement, you walk away thinking, "What an ***hole."
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. Senator from North Dakota, Kevin Cramer, who after three terms in the U.S. House, moved up to the upper chamber in 2018. Among Rep. Cramer’s finer quotes are insisting climate change is trending in the opposite direction and that CO2 emissions have nothing to do with any warming phenomenon (he was the adviser of the Trump campaign’s energy policies, go figure), as well as the time he talked about how Native American tribal elders and said he’d like to “wring the necks and slam their heads against the wall” for being upset about his vote against the version of the Violence Against Women Act that would have provided protections to Native American women. Rounding out this classy individual’s resume, he denies LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace even EXISTS, and insisted he was keeping his paycheck during the 2013 Government Shutdown because “he earned it” while also trying to throw people off of food stamps based on quotes he read of Christian scripture on the floor of the House (because Jesus was TOTALLY against feeding the poor.)
Cramer had been widely criticized during his first run for office for filming campaign advertisements in a veterans’ cemetery as well as the North Dakota Patriot Guard in one of their motorcycle rallies, and had jeopardized the funding for both, by making them involved in a political campaign without their permission. Cramer did not apologize to either group, justified it by saying “there was nothing illegal about it” and in interviews, refused to even say if he would continue to film ads in veterans’ cemeteries without permission.
In March of 2017, after several Democratic Congresswomen dressed for an address by Donald Trump to Congress by wearing white pantsuits, which was a nod to the Suffragette movement that got women the right to vote about a century ago. But that nuance is missed by Kevin Cramer, who responded to it by saying that these women had a “disease”, insulting how they looked, and were obsessed with Hillary Clinton’s election loss:
Now, things can get even more embarrassing than that. In April of 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer gave a bizarre statement at the podium, where he tried comparing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to Adolf Hitler by assessing “even Hitler never gassed his own people”. (News flash: He totally ordered that done in concentration camps.) Now, nobody in their right mind would, or could defend those remarks. But Kevin Cramer, you see, it not in his right mind, as he exhibited in an interview with a North Dakota conservative talk radio host, saying that Spicer’s Holocaust denial “had some validity”.
A few weeks later in May of 2017, House Republicans were floating the AHCA as a method of repealing the Affordable Care Act, that would throw 24 million people off their health insurance, cause tens of thousands of more deaths a year, and all for the “benefit” of getting the richest Americans tax breaks. And Kevin Cramer faced down a hostile town hall as this vote approached and was directly asked about that tax break for the wealthy, and lied in the faces of the people he represents, denying that it existed. The man asking Rep. Cramer the question responded by angrily stuffing a handful of money down his collar, a direct way of accusing that Cramer can be bought so easily.
Kevin Cramer wasn’t content to remain in the House to represent North Dakota, where in 2012, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp pulled what was considered a big upset. Kramer funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars back towards himself in the 2018 challenge for Heitkamp’s seat, leaving him under investigation by the FEC and managed to unseat her with 55% of the vote.
He immediately taken to voting for every judicial nominee and Trump administration nominee for every post, no matter how unqualified they might be. Cramer also furthered our belief that he’s a piece of garbage when he responded to Donald Trump’s racist attacks upon Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore by claiming that it wasn’t that bad because sometimes he gets “snide” comments because he’s from North Dakota, therefore he believed “he could be a victim of racism”.
While we would just have to update that in the past year, Sen. Cramer was a son of a b**** again because he voted against witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, effectively making it a “trial” and voting against convicting Trump in spite of all the evidence he tried soliciting foreign aid from Ukraine in the 2020 election by withholding aid to him… but somehow that wasn’t his s***iest moment of the year. Hands down, it would have to be when on March 24th, 2020, when he responded to a video interview of Nancy Pelosi calling for an economic stimulus package to be created due to Covid-19 and he responded with the deep counter-opinion of “She’s retarded”.
He of course, refused to apologize, saying that he meant to type “she’s ridiculous” and what went out was a typo that he blamed on “fat fingers”.
Perhaps when Kevin Cramer is up for re-election in 2024, it would be good to remind voters that by far, the top campaign contributor funneling money towards his political exploits was Tommy Fisher, who tried to use his pal in the Senate to make the case why he should be the one to take big government contracts for Donald Trump’s ego-stroke project, the WALL on the U.S./Mexico Border (while Cramer did take the money, he could not deliver on getting a deal done for him, because Fisher’s architectural ideas were garbage, and the Army Corps of Engineers knew it and kept shutting the door on him). Yes, Cramer supported the endeavors of a man who had no idea of what he was doing, and most of what he built already started falling over, just because he filled his campaign coffers, and that is a shocking level of corruption (on behalf of someone clearly incompetent).
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We can’t reiterate enough, Kevin Cramer is an unflinching ***hole. It’s just that simple.
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