It was one year ago that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted its first profile of Sheryl Nuxoll, who in December of 2012, hatched a plan to steal the election by having 17 or more states that voted for Romney boycott the Electoral College to prevent them from having a quorum and re-electing Obama. There was just one problem… her plan was bogus because it hinged on an incorrect interpretation of the 12th Amendment. Anyway, she also compared the Affordable Care Act to the Holocaust, saying, much like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps the federal government “will pull the trigger on the insurance companies.“ Through the rest of her second term, Nuxoll didn’t quite make headlines for the remainder of her second term, with the exception of when she and her Republican colleagues tried to circumvent the Environmental Protection Agency, with Nuxoll claiming efforts by the EPA to regulate sludge mining were harming the morale of American veterans, and therefore unacceptable. Since heading back in for her third term, in March 2015, Nuxoll angrily walked out of the state House after a Hindu clergyman read a prayer for them, and then went on social media to complain about it and say that Hinduism is “a false faith with false Gods”. When she was called upon to apologize for those statements and disparaging an entire faith, she refused, and stood by them, calling the United States a Christian nation. Religious leaders in Idaho from several different faiths condemned her for being intolerant, but she wasn’t quite done. A month later in April 2015, and Nuxoll was causing trouble again, holding up a bill that if not passed, would leave the state without $46 million in child support funding from the federal government. Her reason for doing so? She felt the bill would somehow be too permissive, and allow the spread of Sharia Law to begin in Idaho. Ah yes. The dread menace of Sharia Law that our separation of church and state already protects us from. And that if it was coming, probably wouldn’t fall upon us because of a CHILD SUPPORT bill.
Nuxoll is, to the hilt, a deranged zealot, as in February of 2016, she actually submitted a bill in the Idaho state legislature to have the King James Bible available as a resource not just in classes like English or history where it be relevant, but to have it available as a resource in science classes in public schools. (Because you want a kid to be able to read about the age of the earth from a science textbook, but still allow other source material that insists it’s not billions of years old, but only 6,000. )
We do have a positive development here… Sheryl Nuxoll’s fanatical religious intolerance led to her downfall in the GOP Primary for her seat on the Idaho State Senate this year, and she was voted out of the office. Don’t rest too easy, though, because she only was booted in favor of Carl Crabtree, the man who will be taking her place in the next term by 111 votes. Crabtree’s just a safe agriculture vote, so, thank the stars, there’s at least a portion of the populace, even in the most red of states that would like to dial down the crazy.
One Year Ago, November 16th, 2015: Sheryl Nuxoll (ID)… Original Profile
Two Years Ago, November 16th, 2014: Glen Urquhart (DE)