Welcome to what is the 891st original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing William Figlesthaler, who is a urologist and one of nine Republicans (three of whom that we will be profiling) running for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 19th Congressional District in 2020. He has the best funded campaign of the nine Republicans in the race, but that’s mostly by pooling his own money (and his Russian-born wife…interesting) into his campaign in the six-figure range. Still, he has turned some heads by going with the unique strategy of advertising his campaign at urinals… meaning he definitely won’t be getting a large chunk of the votes of women. Now, while we’re not sure if a guy who checks prostates would necessarily be a good addition to the Republican caucus unless he was running on the concept of removing members of his party from Donald Trump’s ass (he has directed his own proctology “jokes” at Adam Schiff to defend Trump during his impeachment), we have some definite concerns with Figlesthaler. And it’s not just that he looks like he’s whatever preceded Donald Trump’s doctor in a Pokemon evolution.
You see, on June 14th, 2020, Figlesthaler referred to the Democratic Party as a “criminal enterprise that is destroying our country from within”, which are bold words from a man whose party just spent the past four years looking the other way at the long, long trail of evidence of criminal behavior from its president.
But maybe if Dr. Fig (his nickname for himself, we didn’t give it to him) actually gave a fig about criminal behavior, he wouldn’t have been caught lying about one of his campaign employees having a criminal record when being asked about it by the press. Or, y’know, that he had a business partner back in 2012 at his urology office who was busted for child pornography.
We should also point out that Figlesthaler married his Russian born wife, but supports Trump’s stupid border wall on the U.S./Mexico border and echoes his comments about “criminals and rapists” coming across it.
Florida’s 19th Congressional District has a +13 Republican lean, so it’s risky to hope for a kook like William Figlesthaler to win… because with that much of a lean, it will still be a challenge to flip this seat blue in November.
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