Welcome to what is the 1024th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Peter Yuan Liu, who in 2014 and 2018, unsuccessfully ran as a mayoral candidate in Oakland, and in 2018 also had an unsuccessful campaign to be Governor of California (He failed to get 1% of the vote in any of those races). More relevantly, ran as a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 15th Congressional District, who was looking to stage an upset of Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell.
Peter Yuan Liu has been on the record in the past against raising the minimum wage, that homosexuality is a “grave and deadly sin”, and that he wants a militia of people with concealed carry permits ready in Oakland to be ready to combat an “all out terrorist invasion”, and seemed to have… a lot of contempt for bicyclists in the city (we’re just going to say there were many expletives). He also said that if any City Councilmember “obstructs me in a way that is unreasonable, I’ll intellectually bitchslap them so they go home crying”. So… that’s a good start to him being a bit “out there’.
Maybe it’s not a surprise then that he was also an adherent of the Qanon conspiracy theory during his 2020 Congressional bid.
Peter Yuan Liu ended up losing in the GOP Primary, finishing in fourth with 7.8% of the vote. He has already thrown his hat into the ring to be a 2022 candidate for U.S. Senate from California, hoping to take the seat currently held by Senator Alex Padilla. We’re wagering that he’s a long shot to pull that off.
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Two Years Ago, September 19th, 2019: Dean Heller (NV)… 2019 Update
Three Years Ago, September 19th, 2018: Dean Heller (NV)… 2018 Update
Four Years Ago, September 19th, 2017: Dean Heller (NV)… 2017 Update
Five Years Ago, September 19th, 2016: Dean Heller (NV)… 2016 Update
Six Years Ago, September 19th, 2015: Dean Heller (NV)… 2015 Update
Seven Years Ago, September 19th, 2014: Dean Heller (NV)… Original Profile