On this date, in both 2014, as well as in 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted its profile of Kyle Tasker, a particularly young and brash member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives whose chief hobby seemed to be challenging the concept of political correctness on social media (or so we thought). In our first look at Tasker, we talked about how Tasker made national headlines when in the middle of a committee meeting in the state legislature, he dropped his personal firearm, sending it clattering to the floor. He later blamed his carelessness on having donated blood. Tasker, by this point infamous, spent time on Facebook making jokes about victims of domestic abuse (“Battered women? I like mine plain”), and asking the New Hampshire Black Caucus if he could join because he is “fond of rap music”. Just for a few examples, that is. We noted how Tasker’s heart seemed to not be in the whole politician business, citing how he missed about one third of all votes in the legislature, and that may have had something to do with the side career he had going.
CSGOPOTD is very, very happy to report the inevitable train wreck that Kyle Tasker’s career was destined to be has officially gone off the rails, now. Back in March 2016, Tasker was arrested by police after trying to lure a 14 year old girl to his house for sex, and when they searched his house while he was in jail, they found not just a weapons cache, but a large stash of drugs. Yes, not only was Kyle Tasker using, but he was also dealing drugs. It was brilliant of New Hampshire Republicans to have had a budding sexual predator like Tasker on the House Committee on Children and Family Law, right?
This is almost definitely the last time we’ll have to keep tabs on Kyle Tasker on this blog, and that is a spectacular thing.