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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Pat McCrory- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-02-04

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, and in 2020, “Crazy Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, who since winning office in 2012 despite outing himself as an Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theorist, the Tar Heel State in more ways than one would think possible. Picking the biggest “screw you” he’s delivered to his constituents is hard to pick… for women, they have to deal with the anger of knowing when he was asked during the last debate for governor in 2012 about what abortion restrictions he would sign, and McCrory said, “None,” and yet, he immediately began serving as a rubber-stamp for the radically conservative, GOP-controlled state legislature, signing one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation the minute it hit his desk, and when women came to the capitol to protest that law, he tried to placate them by sending them a plate of cookies.



Minorities in North Carolina were horrified that he immediately began to execute a campaign of voter disenfranchisement, not just through Voter ID laws, but shaving a week off the number of early voting days, changing election law so young voters about to turn 18 couldn’t pre-register to vote until they WERE 18, and if that wasn’t enough, he signed the repeal of the Racial Justice Act. McCrory’s administration was a horror show of cronyism, as he slashed taxes for his rich pals while high-paying jobs to his key campaign fundraisers, and then gave them raises on top of that… all while slashing the state’s education budget by half a billion dollars, causing droves of teachers to move out of the state elsewhere for higher pay at a rate three times the national average. McCrory also shook his fist at the Obama administration, trying to refuse to resettle any Syrian refugees that the federal government might send.



But what finally sent McCrory’s approval ratings into the 30s was when he signed North Carolina’s HB 2, a “religious freedom” law that allows for the legal discrimination against LGBTQ citizens, and bans transgendered people from using public bathrooms designated by the gender of their birth. That started causing major corporations from relocating their businesses out of the state, musicians to cancel appearances, and events like the NBA All-Star Game to pull out of North Carolina, at a loss of billions of dollars in expended revenue. That’s why that even with all the voter suppression he set up in North Carolina, not at all shocking that Pat McCrory lost in the 2016 elections to Democrat Roy Cooper by around 15,000 votes. What was shocking was the horrible way both McCrory and the North Carolina GOP reacted to this loss. Gov. McCrory stamped his foot and started crying about voter fraud for almost a full month after Election Day, without any evidence. Meanwhile, the GOP-controlled state legislature tried passing legislation to suddenly limit the powers of the governor of the state, and make Roy Cooper as toothless as possible, and before leaving office, Pat McCrory spitefully signed their undemocratic idea into law. It mercifully was blocked by a judge’s ruling after a legal challenge by Governor Cooper, so McCrory’s last effort to subvert the will of the people of the Tar Heel State was for naught. He still took time to release a video to North Carolinans as he left office where he chastised the citizenry for rejecting him and HB 2, because he wasn’t being enough of a wanker already.



And YET… in spite of being so loathed, Pat McCrory was hinting he would try and run to avenge his 2016 loss in 2020. Alas, as polls and public sentiment in North Carolina made is abundantly clear that in 2020, McCrory still needed to go away, he decided against a run to reclaim the Governor’s Mansion. Instead, RAN for U.S. Senate in 2022, trying to claim the seat long held by Sen. Richard Burr.Pat McCrory was now deemed a RINO by North Carolina Republicans, getting just 24.6% of the vote in the GOP Primary, as the fanatics in the party instead chose Ted Budd as their candidate.



We hope this is the last time we ever have to mention this waste of air.

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