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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: David Rouzer- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-06-19

In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” presented its original profile of the current U.S. House Representative from North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District, David Rouzer, whose resemblance to Saturday Night Live cast member Jon Lovitz still haunts us to this day. Rouzer had already established himself as a staunch conservative while he served in the North Carolina State Senate, aligning himself as a climate change denier who tried blocking studies of sea level change, showing he was downright archaic when it came to education, what with his support of corporal punishment without parental exemption in schools, and his homophobic streak was proven by both his opposition to anti-bullying measures that would protect LGBTQ students and his support for a state constitutional ban on same sex marriage. He hasn't mellowed out much since heading to Washington, D.C., like how he was willing to state his desire to have another government shutdown over the fact that the GOP was unable to defund Planned Parenthood, due to his viewing of the fraudulent video produced by the Center for Medical Progress (whose leaders were since been indicted for their deception). This was only two years after the last time Republicans shut the government down, and got nothing but costing millions upon million dollars for our country, and threatening government workers with being furloughed, Rouzer was ready to repeat that over a shoddy hoax.



Rouzer was trying to earn big points points as a freshman lawmaker for introducing his own written legislation, but then again, when you consider his bill was to drug test welfare recipients nationally, it becomes a lot less impressive. After all, when states have passed such laws and adopted them, they have lost a fortune on the cost of drug testing, and found statistically less drug use by those on government assistance, without any "savings" of throwing people off welfare. Even worse, the states have lost money on court cases when the same Republicans supporting these bills see their legislation challenged by ACLU lawsuits, and they get overturned as being violations of the 4th Amendment. But that's David Rouzer for you... take a failed, stupid idea at the state level and try to do it across the country.



In June of 2015, Rep. Rouzer released a statement after the Supreme Court rules in the Obergefell v. Hodges case in favor of marriage equality, saying it would be against the will of our Founding Fathers, and that it created a "slippery slope of shifting sand". Perhaps this would be a good time to point out to Rouzer that George Washington was cool with awarding a house to Continental Army General Baron von Steuben after the war, mmhm? When a guy with wooden teeth is more tolerant of gays than you are… you have problems.



David Rouzer has always been a vocal defender of Donald Trump, regardless of the blatant corruption of the administration, and whined about “the abuses of the FBI” and claiming “the truth has been trampled” as Republicans’ efforts to end the impeachment inquiry into the Ukraine scandal closed in around Trump in Congressional hearings. And, in the days after the attack on the Capitol, Rouzer was willing to admit the election wasn’t “stolen” but continued on to claim, without any proof, that there was widespread “fraud” that needed investigating, defending his decision to contest the results in the hours after the attack.



North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District has a +8 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, which was enough to help him get 58% of the vote in the 2022 elections.



Rouzer returned to Washington, D.C., and his long legislative pattern of being a partisan wanker:

David Rouzer, should he finish out this term in office, will have logged in a decade as a member of Congress, which is evidence enough of how bad a gerrymandered Congressional map in North Carolina truly is, to allow someone like him a virtual free pass to keep coming back every two years.

One Year Ago, June 19th, 2022: David Rouzer (NC)… 2022 Update

Two Years Ago, June 19th, 2021: David Rouzer (NC)… 2021 Update

Three Years Ago, June 19th, 2020: David Rouzer (NC)… 2020 Update

Four Years Ago, June 19th, 2019: David Rouzer (NC)… 2019 Update

Five Years Ago, June 19th, 2018: David Rouzer (NC)… 2018 Update

Six Years Ago, June 19th, 2017: David Rouzer (NC)… 2017 Update

Seven Years Ago, June 19th, 2016: David Rouzer (NC)… Original Profile

Eight Years Ago, June 19th, 2015: Linda McMahon (CT)

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