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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Jason Saine- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-09-16

On this date in both 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Jason Saine, who has represented District 97 in the North Carolina House of Representatives since… you guessed it, the 2010 Tea Party Wave.



And while we’ve covered many a Republican in the North Carolina State legislature during the nine hundred plus entries on this blog, we took particular notice of Jason Saine about a year ago after the chicanery pulled by the NCGOP to get their idea of a state budget passed. Republicans around the capitol in Charlotte made a lot of noise about honoring the 18th anniversary of 9/11, scheduling the legislature to take the morning off. Democrats within the state legislature were also on board with respecting those fallen on that dark day by taking the morning off to have a moment of remembrance…



And then the Republicans showed up at the capitol, declared they had enough people present for a quorum, and started passing a veto-proof budget bill against the protests of what few Democrats were at work. It was a brazen and perverse rebuke of American democracy done by abusing the empathy Democrats had towards the concept of showing respect for the deceased. But Jason Saine wasn’t content to just get the veto-proof budget Republicans wanted to the desk of Gov. Roy Cooper, he stood out among the absolute f***ery for dropping this quote:

”As a former firefighter and an American, I am appalled that anyone in our country would stop going about their normal business on this day. When we stop being a beacon of freedom, hope and democracy, then the terrorists win.”

One might think that someone so adverse to democratic normalcy would perhaps have some issues with corruption of other kinds… and it seems that might be the case, as a North Carolina watchdog group blew the whistle on the number of times that Saine, a prolific fundraiser, has voted in synch with the interests of his campaign donors right after they give him money. On 23 occasions, he has submitted legislation that appeared to directly written for the purpose of benefiting those who filled his coffers.



And his voting record? Think about some of the worst legislation to come out of the Tar Heel State since the Tea Party Wave ten years ago. Guess what? Jason Saine has supported almost all of those:



Jason Saine is won a seventh term in office in 2022, after spending his past term in office seemingly trying to increase the mortality rate for children in North Carolina, first voting for a bill to allow the concealed carry of firearms inside of schools, as well as voting for a bill to prohibit schools from establishing mask mandates for children.



In this new term, Saine has voted to ban abortion at 12 weeks, tried to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports in public school, and since he wasn’t feeling like he’d bullied trans kids enough, he tried banning their right to seek gender affirming therapy until they’re 18.



This vile toad of a man wants to be the next Speaker of the North Carolina House, and he might just get his way.





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