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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Mike Erickson [1]
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Date: 2023-11-23
Welcome to what is the 1258th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Mike Erickson, who was a 2022 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Oregon’s 6th Congressional District, a new district created in Oregon after the 2020 Census. His prior political experience was running for the Oregon state legislature in 1988 and 1992, losing twice, and then re-emerging eight years after that to run for Congress in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District in both 2006 and 2008, losing both times. He took fourteen years off before this comeback, hoping voters might forget the biggest hypocrisy revealed about him.It was during the GOP Primary in 2006 that Erickson’s past came back to haunt him, where his Republican opponent, Kevin Mannix, dropped the bombshell that in 2000, Erickson allegedly had gotten has girlfriend, Tawnya, pregnant, and paid for her to have an abortion. That right there, should doom any Republican running for office in a competitive primary, but Erickson had a great plan to mitigate the claim… lie and claim he had NO IDEA why he was dropping Tawnya off at a doctor, and he unknowingly footed the bill for this.Then Tawyna came forward to say Erickson absolutely knew, and that she was “sick to her stomach” to see him now pretending to be some sort of hero to the unborn.And, not for nothing, but the hypocrisy doesn’t stop there. Erickson likes to pretend he’s “tough on crime”, but he got busted for DUI in 2016 while driving under the influence of oxycodone. Note: He didn’t have a prescription for oxycodone.Mike Erickson ended up getting a far-too-impressive 48% of the vote in that race. We’re crossing our fingers that this will be the first and only time we have to profile him, and that five election losses are enough to provide him with enough evidence this is as close as he'll ever get to a win.
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