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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Matt Salmon- 2022 Update [1]

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Date: 2022-11-18

Former Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon, who made a failed bid for Governor of Arizona in 2022 against Kari Lake.

On this date in 2014, in 2015, and in 2016, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of former Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon, noting that Congressman Salmon was first elected to Congress back in 1994, and pledged to only serve three terms. While he did step down in 2000 and honor that promise, after a failed bid for Governor of Arizona in 2002 and a decade as a lobbyist, he broke it by running for a U.S. House seat again in 2012 and 2014.



His rap sheet included producing a bill in 1999 to have Ronald Reagan’s image added to Mount Rushmore for “winning the Cold War”, saying that President Obama should be impeached over his executive orders on immigration, and advocating for the 2013 Government Shutdown even though he should have remembered how disastrous such things are not just for the country, but for his party, as he voted for two of them back during the Clinton administration.



Rep. Salmon also visited an elementary school where he was supposed to give kids a basic lecture on civics and how bills become law and proceeded to terrify a group of second and third graders by talking about Iran getting their hands on nuclear weapons, or that ISIS is training kids their own age to be suicide bombers. Because that’s the sort of thing you need keeping you up at night when you’re aged 7 to 9.



Matt Salmon also just doesn’t have a record of voting against LGBTQ interests, but has a bit of personal history on getting those matters wrong, having once placed his son, currently a Log Cabin Republican, in gay conversion therapy.



Salmon was a twice-retired Congressman, and against our hopes that he might stay that way, Matt Salmon threw his hat into the ring to be the next Governor of Arizona in the 2022 elections. He, of course, was outdone by the even more Trump-worshipping, conspiracy-theory-peddling, white nationalist-embracing candidate, former news anchor Kari Lake, whom he endorsed after dropping out of the race.



We would think, and wish this is the last time we’ll have to update Salmon’s profile.

One Year Ago, November 18th, 2021: Jennifer Fielder (MT)

Two Years Ago, November 18th, 2020: Todd McMurty (KY)

Three Years Ago, November 18th, 2019: Jeff Pogue (MO)… 2019 Update

Four Years Ago, November 18th, 2018: Jeff Pogue (MO)… 2018 Update

Five Years Ago, November 18th, 2017: Jeff Pogue (MO)… Original Profile

Six Years Ago, November 18th, 2016: Matt Salmon (AZ)… 2016 Update

Seven Years Ago, November 18th, 2015: Matt Salmon (AZ)… 2015 Update

Eight Years Ago, November 18th, 2014: Matt Salmon (AZ)… Original Profile

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