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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Doug Lamborn- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-09-17
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, Doug Lamborn, who first won office in 2007 by gay-baiting and claiming his primary opponent “supported the homosexual agenda” (which wasn’t the case). Lamborn was also named the most conservative member of Congress in 2010 by the National Journal, which makes sense when you realize he was one of the original member of the GOP to push legislation fueled by FOX News’ “War on Christmas”, as well as being the guy the guy who co-sponsored a bill to try to defund National Public Radio. Plus, long before Mitt Romney ever talked about defunding PBS and speaking ill of Big Bird, Rep. Lamborn did it first.
Lamborn even once gave an interview where he described being associated with President Obama “like touching a tar baby”, which he defended by saying he had no idea “tar baby” was a racial slur. That may be part of the reason that he once called for American generals to resign to protest President Obama's foreign policy or the time he made a spectacle of himself back in 2012 by announcing that he was boycotting President Obama's State of the Union Address, then complaining when the media actually reported it, and saying he was being "unfairly singled out". Lamborn has also took to claiming President Obama was doing nothing to prevent Christian persecution around the globe because he was too busy supporting LGBTQ causes, instead.
Needless to say, Doug Lamborn got a lot of grief at his town hall meetings, particularly as the Trump administration began. Then he was implicated as someone who benefited from stock advice from fellow Congressman Chris Collins, whose stock advice really amounts to insider trading, although unlike Collins, Lamborn avoided being directly indicted.
He managed to survive the scandal of fraudulent signatures to get on the ballot in 2016, to fend off two primary challengers in the form of fellow FREDs Owen Hill, and Darryl Glenn, before holding off Democrat Stephanie Rose Spaulding in the general election that year with 57% of the vote.
Lamborn has continued his feud with PBS, complaining not just about Sesame Street and Big Bird, but getting his knickers in a twist and trying to defund PBS because the teacher on the cartoon Arthur had the titular character’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, married to another man (anthropomorphic animal man, but GASP, A MAN!). Lamborn’s fury, as follows:
”A case in point is PBS—the Public Broadcasting Service—which recently aired a surprising episode of the children’s show “Arthur” titled “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone.” In this episode, PBS writers deemed it appropriate to preach their liberal views on same-sex marriage to America’s young children: The episode featured—and celebrated—a same-sex wedding.
After the episode, many conservatives, including Rev. Franklin Graham and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, came out in opposition. Even the state of Alabama opted against airing the program and instead barred the episode from Alabama Public Television. When confronted with criticism, Marc Brown, the creator of “Arthur,” explained: ‘That’s not the kind of world we want to live in, and we want children educated so they can see there’s not just one type of family.’
Taxpayers now know with complete certainty that the goal of the PBS cartoon is to impart social liberalism to children… “
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Get bent, Lamborn. And stop whining all the time about the Green New Deal without seeming to even know what it IS, and labeling everything you don’t like “socialism”.
Make no mistake, Doug Lamborn has become one of the Republicans embracing the GOP becoming the “Party of Trump”, as evidenced by his speech in the House in September 2019 commending Donald Trump for choosing to have U.S. Space Command housed at Peterson Air Force, where he bizarrely referred to “space warfighters”, which we can only assume is related to the fever dream of Trump’s Space Force.
Anyway, it’s probably not a shock to anyone that Lamborn, now in his ninth term in office after winning re-election in 2022 with 56% of the vote, and continues to rack up a highly conservative voting record, now in the minority:
Even what with news that his own staffers are getting fired for taking precautions during the Covid-19 pandemic and allegedly being told by Lamborn that Covid-19 is a “hoax fabricated to derail Donald Trump’s reelection bid”. Further e-mails between staffers put Lamborn as the target of an ethics investigation for allegedly having Congressional staff run errands for his wife, against Congressional rules. Or that his Chief of Staff, Dale Anderson, pressured staffers to buy Lamborn and his wife gifts.
Doug Lamborn settled this lawsuit out of court for an undisclosed sum, and in a sane world, where people understand science and don’t adhere to conspiracy theories, he’d already have been toast years ago. Alas, that’s not the direction this country, in particular his district has trended.
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