On this date in 2015, 2016,as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Christy Perry, a Republican member of the Idaho House of Representatives who we called out for blocking a bill that would reform state laws regarding “faith healing” as a practice used in households as opposed to, y’know, medicine after a disproportionately high number of children had died in her district due to easily preventable diseases. Perry then tried reframing the arguments to curtail faith healing as a justification for letting children die, and not calling it negligence or child abuse as “attacks on religion”, adding, “They are comforted by the fact that they know their child is in heaven. If I want to let my child be with God, why is that wrong?” Perry’s interest in matters of faith has also led her to vote for resolutions in the Idaho state legislature to petition Congress to allow businesses to refuse to cover contraceptives in insurance plans of their employees based on their “personal faith”, trying to pass measures to allow the Bible to be taught in schools, and a call for Congress to impeach any Supreme Court Justice who would dare vote in favor of same sex marriage. Christy Perry is also a gun shop owner, which you better believe that she votes for every pro-gun bill that crosses her path, since she has a personal interest to keep lining her pockets by doing so, including an attempt to nullify federal firearm laws. We’ve already established Christy Perry’s fanatical and twisted view of “Christian values”, so brace yourselves… she was caught having an affair with GOP State Senator Jim Guthrie in the fall of 2016, admitting it on November 1st. And because this was revealed only a week before the election… Christy Perry was still easily re-elected, even though both her and Guthrie were still in the process of being investigated for ethics violations for charging their stays in Boise hotel rooms to bump uglies to Idaho taxpayers.
Since we last covered Christy Perry, she has voted for one of those insane attempts to prevent courts from ruling based on “foreign law” because she’s paranoid about Sharia Law taking hold in the United States like so many of her paranoid GOP cohorts,as well as a bill to authorize “Stand Your Ground” gun laws in Idaho.
Now, in spite of the fairly recent scandals Christy Perry has been tied up into, including an affair, and the ethics charges that stemmed from it… she’s still, in the end, a self-important fanatic. And that’s likely why she filed to run for United States Congress, to try and replace Raul Labrador as the U.S. House Representative from Idaho’s 1st Congressional District. We’re predicting that she’s going to lose in that effort (we hope) and she’ll totally be out of office come 2019. And that… would be a nice start.