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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Randy Voepel- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-12-11
We've been profiling Randy Voepel since 2017, and his legacy has become that of generational hate and homophobia.
It was on this day in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Randy Voepel, a former mayor of Santee, California, who had the good fortune of running for a seat in the California State Assembly in 2016 without being challenged by a Democrat. Specifically, our issue with Randy Voepel begins with his views on climate change, which somehow also becomes how to weaponize it against faiths other than his own. Voepel thinks the planet actually is getting warmer… but he feels like that is a good thing because as he explained in an interview back in 2007, “our enemies are on the equator” and a hotter climate would harm them. He still feels this way today, giving an interview to the Los Angeles Times where he explained, “Most of the Muslim nations are in the hot areas of the world”. It’s hardly just Muslims in the Middle East that Voepel has issues with, however, as he also have some unfortunate opinions about both the Asian people. He responded to a Chinese citizen who wanted his autograph for a collection he keeps by writing them in e-mail in which he stated:
There’s a lot to unpack there… does Voepel think there’s no difference between Vietnamese Americans and the Viet Cong he fought over forty years ago?
Needless to say, Voepel is probably not the kind of person you’d want to serve as an ambassador. Or as a legislator. Or as any kind of government employee. And yet… and yet he won re-election even in 2020 with 59% of the vote. Which, frankly, maybe it would be better to have a legislator who didn’t support domestic terrorists staging an attack on the U.S. Capitol by referring to it in such heroic terms, as Randy Voepel did three days after the failed coup attempt was carried out by Donald Trump supporters, on January 9th, 2021? His actual quote:
Once Voepel had people calling for his expulsion from the California State Assembly based on that statement, he tried backpedaling and saying he didn’t support the violence, but then flipped again to try and giving a pathetic “both sides” criticism of “crazies” from the right and left in this country… which might have made sense if the left had ever attacked Congress to try and subvert American democracy. Voepel’s support for Donald Trump’s coup is probably why the California GOP opted to run a second Republican challenger for him for his seat in the state assembly, and he was defeated in the general election last month.
While he was running out his last days in office, though, Randy Voepel’s name popped up one more time in the news cycle, specifically when his 22 year-old grandson carried out a hate crime by gunning down five people and wounding 25 others with an AR-15 in a mass shooting in a LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado on November 19th. No idea where the young man could have been radicalized. *cough*learneditfromgrandpa*cough*
Randy Voepel gets our finest “good riddance” salutes at this time, and his spawn a generation removed can rot in prison.
One Year Ago, December 11th, 2021: Randy Voepel (CA)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, December 11th, 2020: Randy Voepel (CA)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, December 11th, 2019: Randy Voepel (CA)… 2019 Update
Four Years Ago, December 11th, 2018: Randy Voepel (CA)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, December 11th, 2017: Randy Voepel (CA)… Original Profile
Six Years Ago, December 11th, 2016: Anthony Cappola (NJ)
Seven Years Ago, December 11th, 2015: Chris Buttars (UT)
Eight Years Ago, December 11th, 2014: Tom Coburn (OK)
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