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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Burgess Owens [1]
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Date: 2022-10-02
U.S. House Rep. Burgess Owens, of Utah's 4th Congressional District, who likes to call Democrats "Marxists" and praise Qanon shows.
Welcome to what is the 1143rd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where profiling Burgess Owens, the sitting U.S. House Representative for Utah’s 4th Congressional District who once played safety in the NFL for 11 seasons, including getting a Super Bowl XV ring as a member of the 1980 Oakland Raiders. He first reached office in 2020 by getting his profile boosted by Fox News, Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, and other conservative outlets, impressing Republican primary voters by criticizing Colin Kaepernick for kneeling to protest police violence during the National Anthem, arguing against slavery reparations, and then he unseated Democratic Congressman Ben Adams in a extremely close race that Owens won with a mere 47.7% of the vote, after a general election campaign where he kept changing his stance on the repeal of the ACA depending on which way the wind blew. And our reason for profiling Burgess Owens this early into his Congressional career?
Qanon. Yep, It seems Burgess Owens went on a Qanon program and asked the audience of it for money and support after claiming Democrats “want misery” and they have “an evil leadership that will use, abuse, and discard anyone for their power, even people within their own race.” At the end of the broadcast, Owens told the hosts, hosts “thank you for all you guys are doing, because I’m just part of the team.”
Repeatedly, Owens has spewed bile claiming that Democrats are “Marxists and socialists”, sometimes even adding that they are “anti-white” or “anti-American” which he apologized for in late January 2021, what not wanted to be associated with the sorts of folks who staged a coup attempt and seeking to avoid being associated too strongly with them… Only to resume that stupid-ass rhetoric three months later on Fox News, around the same time he was also defending Georgia Republicans passing the harshest voter suppression bill in decades, saying it was “insulting to compare it to Jim Crow.”
His voting record, thus far:
After ducking out on several debates so far this year, Burgess Owens won the GOP Primary for his seat, and now faces Democratic challenger Darlene McDonald and January Walker of the United Utah Party (it’s what “moderate Utah Republicans” did to no longer have to shame themselves by calling themselves Republicans) in the general election. It’s hard to predict this three-way race, given how close Owens’ win was two years ago, and now with a third party split for “recovering Republicans”, there’s a real chance that McDonald can flip this seat blue in a surprise.
The sooner Owens is sent packing, the better.
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