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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Bill Posey- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-10-15
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Florida's 8th Congressional District, Bill Posey, the U.S. House Representative from Florida's 8th District, the author of HB 1503, aka “The Birther Bill” that would force all presidential candidates to submit their birth certificates. When asked if he believed President Obama was an American citizen in the wake of that, he refused to answer, calling the question “irrelevant”.
Posey’s also obsessed with overturning the Affordable Care Act, having participated in every attempt to repeal it, and then voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown to attempt to stop it (also voting against re-opening the government when the time came). He's also been a part of GOP efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, voted against the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, and voted to defund the Department of Homeland Security as part of a Republican temper tantrum over President Obama's executive orders on immigration.
Bill Posey dodged hosting a town hall in 2017 by instead, opting to call his constituents to let them know he was having a telephone town hall… WHILE IT WAS ALREADY UNDER WAY. He was apparently still distressed that upon learning this, ten thousand of his voters bombarded him with complaints, not only about his availability, but how the GOP was planning on exercising control of both Congress and the White House, and defended the move because “Gabby Giffords got shot at a town hall”. His constituents then further berated him, because Giffords herself called on all members of Congress to hold town halls, as their duty remains to the people.
In July of 2018, after Donald Trump gave a bizarre joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, where he denied Russians interfered in the 2016 election, effectively siding with the Russian dictator’s denials over his own intelligence community, Bill Posey offered his support to the president, arguing that maybe that interference isn’t so bad, because “America has done it to other countries for the past 50 years”.
Bill Posey is so transparently partisan that in 2021, he concluded a speech on the floor of the House with a cry of “LET’S GO BRANDON!” which is, of course, moronic right-wing code for “F*CK JOE BIDEN.”
Posey returned to Washington after being re-elected in 2022 with 65% of the vote, and resumed being a clueless moron as a legislator:
Florida’s 8th Congressional District has a +11 lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index,
which has helped prop Bill Posey up and keep him in place over a decade, often without any primary challengers at all. Posey will likely remain in power until he decides to retire, or shuffles off the mortal coil.
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