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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Douglas McLeod- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-03-16

Mississippi state legislator Douglas McLeod, who allegedly punched his wife square in the face for not undressing fast enough for his liking for sex, is up for re-election in 2023.

On this date in 2020, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Douglas McLeod, a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives since winning office in District 107 back in 2011. A quick rundown of his voting record shows him to be, quite frankly, a hyper-conservative lunatic:

But really, it’s how he made the news in 2019 that give us far greater concern. And that shows the continued pattern of Republican men with issues towards women and how they’re stereotypically opposed to women having control over their own bodies.

With only six months to Election Day in May of 2019, police ended up being called to Doug McLeod’s home due to a report of domestic violence. When they got there, the 58-year-old representative for Lucedale was anything but lucid. McLeod appeared heavily intoxicated, was slurring his speech and stumbling around the house like if Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Jack Sparrow had a trashy Southern accent instead of a British one. As they continued to investigate who made the call, police found McLeod’s wife and another unidentified woman who had locked themselves in a room on the second floor of the house, and were shaking with fear. McLeod’s wife told the police that McLeod “just snapped” and punched her dead in the face after she didn’t get her clothes off quickly enough to have sex, per the police report. The punch turned her nose into a faucet of blood, leaving plenty of it through the bedroom on the couple’s bed and floor. Party of family values, y’all. McLeod’s wife then ran to the other woman’s room for safety and the two locked themselves inside, police say. The other woman said McLeod began banging on the locked door and threatened to kill her dog if she didn’t let him in.

There’s some old expression about the easiest way to get attacked in public is to hit a woman, a child, or a dog, and Douglas MacLeod already has his willingness to harm two of the three as public knowledge. However, McLeod was only saved from jail when his wife contradicted her friend, and the statements she gave to police by claiming it was all just a misunderstanding and she “tripped and fell” into his hand, and that created enough doubt to have him found not guilty in court.

McLeod won re-election in 2019 in spite of being regarded as a known domestic abuser because… no one bothered to run against him. Thus, this piece of garbage will remain in office until 2024, and has used this opportunity to do such great works as a legislator as to be one of 23 Mississippi Republicans who vote against the removal of the Confederate flag from the state flag, to vote against Covid-19 vaccine mandates that would help save lives, and to support Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” by voting to grant the Mississippi Secretary of State the power to purge voter rolls and audit election results without any public oversight (i.e., steal the state’s electoral votes for Republicans should they somehow lose after not suppressing the vote enough).

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