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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: John Curtis- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-09-04
On this date in both 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the U.S. House Representative from Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, John Curtis, who first ran and won office for that seat back in the 2016 elections.
John Curtis won the special election to replace former Congressman and all around sneering bastard Jason Chaffetz, which is kind of surprising, given how that during the buildup to that election in 2017, the public would learn that while the Mayor of Provo, John Curtis hired Police Chief John King even though he had resigned from two prior posts as two prior accusations of sexual harassment were made against him. John Curtis HIRED that guy. Then, as the police chief in Provo, there were then multiple complaints filed against King in 2014 and 2015, and he was kept around by Curtis in spite of all the women coming forward… until King’s resignation in March of 2017 when another woman came forward to accuse him of rape. It seems John Curtis missed the whole #MeToo memo, or he doesn’t think much of women being violated. Which would seem to be the case, considering it is alleged then Mayor Curtis told police department supervisors that he “did not want to hear any more complaints about Chief King” when multiple women were coming forward.
But John Curtis has other things on his mind to prioritize… like reducing the size of the Bears’ Ears Monument for pillaging by fossil fuel companies while ignoring the native tribes of the area, and allowing oil companies to fast-track drilling without any research into the environmental impact it might have upon the surrounding lands.
Utah’s 3rd Congressional District has a +25 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, and after advancing out of the GOP Primary at the Utah Republican Convention (with no data released on how that vote actually went), John Curtis advances to the general election time and again where he wins by over 40 points and goes back to Washington, to do things like this:
We would like to note at this time that John Curtis is a rare Republican with a hat trick of sanity since Donald Trump lost the presidential election… he was NOT one of the Republicans who signed on the amicus brief to the Supreme Court ot challenge the election results, he did NOT vote to challenge the election results after the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and he was one of only 33 Republicans who voted for a bipartisan commission to investigate those attacks.
And it’s that little trilogy of actual decency and respect for American election security that made it almost a certainty that he would get a primary challenger to his right who is still “MAGA until death” Republican in 2022…. And lo and behold, so it came to pass in the form of Christopher Herrod.
So what kind of shameless stunts and quotes to prove they’re cruel enough to still be a true Republican and not a Rino did John Curtis go through with? Well, during a debate, and a discussion about prospective gun control legislation came up, and how people were disgusted about children being shot in schools, so Curtis decided to go with the spin of, “Yeah, BUTWHATABOUT abortion, though? Why aren’t people outraged about THAT?”
Fast forward a month later, and Curtis was being surveilled by right-wing fraud-perpetrating journalists Project Veritas for supposedly not truly being dedicated to outlawing abortion.
But John Curtis has survived his primary, and went on to get re-elected in November… and to continue his feud with the Bureau of Land Management.
The sooner Congress is rid of this twit, the better.
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