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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Rick Crawford- 2022 Update [1]

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Date: 2022-12-25

Arkansas Congressman and rejected Bounty paper-towel mascot Rick Crawford.

On this date in 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled the sitting U.S. House Representative from Arkansas 1st Congressional District, Eric “Rick” Crawford, who was first elected to that office in… you guessed it, the 2010 Tea Party Wave. Crawford was formerly a news anchor and agriculture reporter before running for office, and still seems like he’s laying fertilizer when he makes public statements. Perhaps the most ridiculous one we’ve seen from Crawford came in August of 2017, when he spoke out in defense of Confederate monuments, and felt that removing them “would lead to closing the Holocaust museum”.

And if there’s one thing that’s fine it’s conflating a museum commemorating victims of Nazi violence with Confederate monuments that serve as tributes to slavery and white supremacy.



Rick Crawford also got our attention back in 2015 when he responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges by saying that “The opinion of five lawyers, not elected by the American people, should not and cannot define what millions of Americans affirm as the true and divine institution of marriage.”



Ah yes… the justices are just “lawyers not elected” when they do things you don’t like. How cute, Rick.



Anyway, Crawford also denies the science behind climate change, saying there are “questions about the validity” into the research (that 98% of climate scientists agree is solid), and in January of 2017, came out in support of Donald Trump’s proposed “Muslim ban”. Crawford continued wanking to Trump’s craziness, by claiming the Mueller Report wasn’t finding anything but had cost taxpayers $10 million (which ignores the profit it actually made in seizing Paul Manafort’s ill-gotten assets). In November of 2019, Rick Crawford furthered his fanatical support of Trump, calling the impeachment inquiry a “impeachment hoax”, and resigning his place on the House Intelligence Committee to cede his place on it instead to… Congressman Jim Jordan.



So… yeah… we have Rick Crawford to thank for that.



If you’re not getting the idea about how hard right this guy leans, here’s the highlights of his voting record over the past term in office:

Rick Crawford ran for a sixth term in office in 2020, and it seems and as Arkansas’ 1st Congressional District has a +17 Republican lean these days, and he faced no challenger, whatsoever, which is probably what inspired him to be a jackass and sign on to that amicus brief to discredit confidence in American elections.

On January 6th, 2021, as law enforcement officials were still engaged with Trump-supporting domestic terrorists to regain control in Washington, Rick Crawford gave an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette where he said his goal was to “compel” the Supreme Court to reexamine Trump’s election-related legal challenges. The damning quote:

Crawford faced a primary challenger in 2022 in the form of Brandt Smith, an Arkansas state legislator who wants our approach to combating Covid-19 and handling immigration to be Donald Trump’s, and who was educated at Liberty University, land of self-righteous hypocrisy… which somehow may have made Crawford the lesser of two evils.

Rich Crawford survived that primary and went on to win re-election with 74% of the vote in November. He will be back in Washington for a seventh term in office in a few weeks, regrettably.

One Year Ago, December 25th, 2021: Rick Crawford (AR)… 2021 Update

Two Years Ago, December 25th, 2020: Rick Crawford (AR)… 2020 Update

Three Years Ago, December 25th, 2019: Rick Crawford (AR)… Original Profile

Four Years Ago, December 25th, 2018: Dennis Hof (NV)

Five Years Ago, December 25th, 2017: Bob Marshall (VA)… 2017 Update

Six Years Ago, December 25th, 2016: Bob Marshall (VA)… 2016 Update

Seven Years Ago, December 25th, 2015: Bob Marshall (VA)… 2015 Update

Eight Years Ago, December 25th, 2014: Bob Marshall (VA)… Original Profile

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