Welcome to what is the 1286th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling former Missouri State Senator Wayne Wallingford, who served District 27 of that body for eight years from 2013-2021, and that tenure was sandwiched around two non-consecutive terms serving Distrct 147 of the Missouri House of Representatives, the latter one from 2021-2022 and the first from 2011-2023… so yes, this is another Republican extremist who arrived as a part of the 2010 Tea Party Wave.
We’re profiling Wallingford because he was one of two members of the Missouri State Senate in 2017 who mocked women during debates on abortion, saying they should “go to the zoo” if they wanted to get the procedure. The quote:
”Maybe we should send the people that want an abortion to the St. Louis Zoo, because we know it’ll be safer.” Wallingford’s tag team partner in this discussion was Missouri State Senator Bob Onder, who we will absolutely be profiling at a later date, and who helped make the comparison to euthanizing zoo animals to women getting abortions.
While his whole voting record for his twelve years in office shows how Missouri has fallen into a right-wing spiral, we won’t get into every detail, but just give you an idea of how extreme this guy is… at one point, he was trying to find an end around to circumvent the separation of church and state by instead of trying to blatantly have “the Bible” taught in schools, he wanted it to be “Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament”… which when you back away, is obviously referring to the Old Testament and then the New Testament, aka THE BIBLE.
Wayne Wallingford was promoted to run the Missouri Department of Revenue by Gov. Mike Parson in 2022. This was based on his experience in exploiting low income workers as a corporate taskmaster for McDonald’s and Taco Bell. He no longer needs to be elected to negatively impact the citizens of the Show-Me State from the legislature, he's now able to do it as part of the executive branch.
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