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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Scott Desjarlais- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-10-09
U.S. House Rep. Scott Deslarais, from Tennessee's 4th Congressional District, and man most likely to form a club with Herschel Walker about abortion hypocrisy.
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District, Scott Desjarlais, an Episcopalian physician from Tennessee whose religious background would have made him the perfect Republican to push their social agenda against abortion, contraceptives, and gay rights, while also giving them a guy with the credibility to argue against the Affordable Care Act.
The problem with that, though, is Desjarlais has proven to be an embarrassing hypocrite, because while he portrays himself a champion of the pro-life movement, his divorce records were unsealed, and the media discovered he protected the sanctity of marriage by cheating on his wife with four women, and pressured not only his wife (on tape, no less) into getting an abortion, but one of his mistresses. And that mistress was also apparently one of his patients (and she wasn’t the only patient he slept with)… so there went the credibility of the “doctor against the ACA” angle. Also, the “family values Republican” angle, considering he admitted sleeping with six women — including two patients, three co-workers and a drug company representative — during his three-year marriage. But don’t worry, he’s assured everyone that “God has forgiven him”.
Desjarlais is also a big hard-liner on immigration, what with the time he told an 11 year old girl that he was going to deport her dad, and all.
Desjarlais has been dodging facing his constituents like a coward these past few years and his voting record makes it clear that he has no intention of explaining anything to them:
Inexplicably Scott Desjarlais has remained in Congress, and every two years articles come out about his anti-choice hypocrisy, and wonder, “Is this the year that the voters of Tennessee’s 4th wake up and boot this hypocrite to the curb?” And for over a decade now, and through five full election cycles… nothing. After Roe V. Wade was overturned by the Dobbs decision, could THIS be the year? If not now, then when?
If they were looking for someone who at least is honest about their position on abortion, they could consider Democratic candidate Wayne Steele, a former Covid-19 contact tracer who is staring down a disadvantageous partisan layout for TN-4, which now sits at a +22 Republican lean.
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone more worthy of being swept out of office during Roe-vember than Scott Desjarlais, to be sure.
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