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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Russ Fulcher- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-09-02

On this date in both 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, first profiled the current U.S. House Representative for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District, Russ Fulcher, who with a resume of being an Idaho State Senator for eight years, swooped in to run for that seat back in 2018 upon the foolhardy decision by its former occupant, former Congressman Raul Labrador, to make an ill-advised run for Governor of Idaho. Four years prior, Fulcher himself made an ill-fated run for Governor of Idaho, losing to Gov. Butch Otter in that legendary race that featured the clusterf*** debate with Harley Brown and Walt Bayes.



By merely being the third craziest person at that debate, it might be easy to overlook what a piece of work Russ Fulcher is. But when someone attributes obvious statistical and scientific evidence of climate change being a major concern that threatens the globe to simply being “in the cycle that’s happened since the beginning of time”, we’re at least going to put a profile here on the back-burner for a bit. The fact that Fulcher now is a freshman member of Congress makes us think we may have put it off too long.



Here’s the interesting thing… Russ Fulcher was elected partially because his campaign kept the fact that his wife Kara, the mother of his three children, filed for divorce only days before the election, citing “adultery” as the reason to being the end of their 32 year marriage. Again, the GOP “party of family values” hypocrisy jumps out at us, as Fulcher is against same sex couples that would be monogamous getting married.



While we’re at it, he’ll even vote against workplace protections for the LGBTQ community, because he’s an expert on “true marriage”.



And since we’re opening up on ludicrous hypocrisy or extreme policy stances from Russ Fulcher, we’ll note he’s also got a 100% rating from the NRA, wants the pointless, racist Trump vanity project of a border wall on the U.S./Mexico border, is a Personhood supporter, and boasts of how as a state senator in Idaho, he worked to get a “pro-life clinic” right next to a Planned Parenthood back in 2013. We’ll note that last “achievement” is more dubious, because the Stanton Healthcare Center has made international headlines for disseminating false information about abortion and cancer links to the public.



The Cook Paristan Voting Index gives Idaho’s 1st Congressional District a +19 Republican lean, which helped Rep. Fulcher get re-elected in 2020 with 68% of the vote. He continues to rack up an extremely conservative voting record:

Russ Fulcher spent most of the past few years in office throwing a fit over people being vaccinated against Covid-19. Including a mandate that all Department of Veterans’ Affairs staff be vaccinated while they’re, y’know, treating patients without potentially spreading the disease throughout hospitals full of vulnerable patients.



We would like to have thought his anti-vaccination fervor would have changed once he became highly at-risk once he found out he has renal cancer, and that while was undergoing treatments, he would be extremely vulnerable to anyone spreading Covid-19. But, some people are so dedicated to their idiotic politics that they’ll jeopardize their own lives rather than compromise, it seems.

He’s moved on to a new issue… complaining that the Dept. of Justice and the FBI actually indicted Donald Trump for all the crimes he did in plain sight, and frequently bragged about. HOW DARE THEY.

One Year Ago, September 1st, 2022: Russ Fulcher (ID)… 2022 Update

Two Years Ago, September 1st, 2021: Russ Fulcher (ID)… 2021 Update

Three Years Ago, September 1st, 2020: Russ Fulcher (ID)… Original Profile

Four Years Ago, September 1st, 2019: Russell Walker (NC)

Five Years Ago, September 1st, 2018: Bob Goodlatte (VA)… 2018 Update

Six Years Ago, September 1st, 2017: Bob Goodlatte (VA)… 2017 Update

Seven Years Ago, September 1st, 2016: Bob Goodlatte (VA)… 2016 Update

Eight Years Ago, September 1st, 2015: Bob Goodlatte (VA)…Original Profile

Nine Years Ago, September 1st, 2014: David Dreier (CA)

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