It was on this date one year ago that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled Texas State Senator Konni Burton, a Fundamentalist who was propped up and into office in the 2014 elections by over a million dollars of campaign donations and the support of that unlikable blight on the Lone Star State, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. It seems that after Democratic Texas State Senator Wendy Davis made a name for herself as an opponent of abortion, Texas Republicans put a bullseye on any member of the state legislature who supported her, and that included Libby Willis, who Burton defeated with 53% of the vote after advancing out of a crowded GOP Primary for her seat.
And yes, every step of the way, Konni Burton’s voting record has shown her willing to go to extremes on abortion (more on that later). But just as one cannot live on bread alone, Burton is unable to spend all of her time on an insane quest to find a way around Roe v. Wade. Instead, her off-hours as a legislator have been spend demonizing the LGBT community, with perhaps her most alarming effort having been a bill she proposed in November of 2016 that would force teachers in school to “out” gay and transgendered students to their parents.
We’ll repeat that… Burton wanted to “out” children who perhaps had parents who would react violently to the news. This is hardly the only socially conservative insanity she’s concocted or supported in her three years in office:
- January 28th, 2015: Burton sponsors SB 11, a bill to legalize the concealed carry of firearms on college campuses in Texas.
- May 12th, 2015: Konni Burton votes for SB 2065, a “religious freedom” law to allow religious officials to deny marriage services, in spite of the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
- January 24th, 2017: Konni Burton co-sponsors SB 6, a transgender bathroom ban meant to force people to use the bathrooms of their genetic birth.
- March 30th, 2017: Burton votes for SB 258, a bill that would increase the cost of abortion by requiring that all fetal tissue afterwards be buried or cremated (and also prevents medical science from using that tissue in research).
- July 18th, 2017: Burton co-sponsors SB 10, an anti-abortion “TRAP law” to attempt to shut down the majority of, if not all the abortion clinics in Texas.
Rest assured, that with her obsession with making LGBT citizens treated so poorly, Burton’s seat was strongly targeted by Democrats in 2018, and with the Blue Wave and Beto-Mania running wild in November, Democrat Beverly Powell managed to send this Fundamentalist twit packing. You may now pump your fist in the air, knowing that there is one less bigot in office in Texas.
One Year Ago, January 16th, 2018: Konni Burton (TX)… Original Profile
Two Years Ago, January 16th, 2017: Mike Webb (VA)
Three Years Ago, January 16th, 2016: David Dewhurst (TX)
Four Years Ago, January 16th, 2015: Joe Read (MT)