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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Amanda Chase- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-08-19

On this date in both 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase, who represents District 11, and is pictured above using open carry firearms laws to ensure her protection as she submits bills on the floor of the Virginia State Senate, on which she has served since 2015.



Chase began brandishing her firearm as a “deterrent” to anti-immigration protesters who she imagined were out to kill her in January of 2019. It’s not that she’s fanatical about guns that we’re concerned about, either. She’s also decidedly against LGBTQ rights, having voted for marriage officiants to deny people same sex marriages, against bills that would prevent racial discrimination in housing, and also voted against bans on gay conversion therapy on minors.



As far back as 2017, people were concerned she was drifting farther and farther to the right, buddying up to former Congressman Dave Brat prior to him getting the boot from Virginia voters in 2018, and how she was openly talking about banning books from the state’s libraries that she took personal objection to. And ejecting anyone from a town hall who had the nerve to disagree with her or Brat.



As far as bad behavior goes, Amanda Chase also has shown herself capable of screaming at capitol police for not getting to park wherever she pleases whenever she wants, and screaming about the Equal Rights Amendment not being applied to her (even though she’s opposed to it?) because of being denied drive-up access to the capitol. Oh, and calling a colleague who she felt was given access “Miss Piggy”. When the incident made the news with the official police report back in April of 2019, she referred to the police as “partisan liars”.



If being a gun fetishist and getting into fights with the capitol police there to protect her aren’t enough of a red flag folks, we would also like to point out that she decided to get on Facebook to boast about her pistol-packing, and used it to point out that she hadn’t been raped, in a way that blamed rape victims for their own assaults:

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