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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Kyle Koehler- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-12-26
Ohio state legislator and anti-choice fanatic, Kyle Koehler.
On this date in 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Kyle Koehler, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives who was first elected to office in 2014. We started to see Koehler’s name pop up back in 2015 as Ohio Republicans began a mad quest to close down every Planned Parenthood in the state, and taking a fraudulent video created by the Center for Medical Progress (a fanatical anti-choice group) as factual, and wanted to close down any facility that performed an abortion and donated fetal tissue for research. The state launched an expensive witch hunt that found not a single witch, and when the investigation came back finding no proof of wrongdoing, let alone anything as shocking as what the video purported, Koehler didn’t flinch, sponsored a bill to require women who have an abortion to bury or cremate the remains, and didn’t dial back the rhetoric when explaining his decision:
We’re also a bit puzzled about Koehler’s feud with pro-gun advocate and provocateur Chris Dorr… which is supposed to be centered on Koehler not being “tough enough” on guns… and when given a survey to indicate his absolute or not-quite-absolute-how-dare-you support for the 2nd Amendment, Koehler had the level-headed response to film himself shooting up the survey on a gun range.
In 2020, Koehler was forced to apologize to a colleague after calling them a “son of a bitch” during debate on a bill regarding Confederate monuments, and of course it was a woman of color, who he was trying to get to shelve her amendment because if he voted no on it “it would make him look like a racist”.
We’ll finish up by noting that in Koehler’s voting record, he has repeatedly sponsored legislation to allow for prayer in public schools supported extreme anti-choice legislation as ludicrous as fetal heartbeat bills, but remains hypocritically “pro-life” because he also voted against a bill that would protect people with certain mental illnesses from being executed for capitol offenses, and he cares so much about “life” that he wanted to block the state from taking in Syrian refugees.
He spent his last term working hard to try and make sure to pass a bill that would prevent Ohio businesses from mandating that their employees get the Covid-19 vaccine, because he’d apparently like his state to remain a petri dish of plague from now until the end of time.
Mercifully, Kyler Koehler chose to not run for re-election in 2022, meaning he is winding down his last few days in office. We would like to wish him our finest “good riddance” salutes at this time.
One Year Ago, December 26th, 2021: Kyle Koehler (OH)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, December 26th, 2020: Kyle Koehler (OH)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, December 26th, 2019: Kyle Koehler (OH)… Original Profile
Four Years Ago, December 26th, 2018: Josh McKoon (GA)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, December 26th, 2017: Josh McKoon (GA)… Original Profile
Six Years Ago, December 26th, 2016: Tim Kelly (MN)
Seven Years Ago, December 26th, 2015: Monica Wehby (OR)
Eight Years Ago, December 26th, 2014: Don Balfour (GA)
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