Welcome to the 567h original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today, we’ll be talking about Alan Hays, a former Florida State Senator who was first elected to one term in the Florida House in 2008, and in 2010, making the jump to the Florida State Senate in the Tea Party Wave. In his six years in office, Hays developed a reputation for submitting absolutely bonkers bills, including but not limited to one he spewed out in July of 2014 that insisted conservative filmmaker (and convicted felon) Dinesh D'Souza’s “America” should be required viewing for all high school students.
Said Hays of his proposed legislation:
“I’ve looked at history books and talked to history teachers and the message the students are getting is very different from what is in the movie. It’s dishonest and insulting. The students need to see the truth without political favoritism. The most dreaded disease in America today is political correctness. We need to inform our students of our whole history, and teach them how to think, not what to think. Let them talk with their teachers, their peers and their parents, then draw their own conclusions. But they need both sides, and this movie shows a side they just aren’t seeing.”
We’ll also note that Alan Hays is a screaming bigot, as he once passed out fliers in the Florida State legislature decrying Islam as “a threat to the United States” and that during his efforts to try and get Florida to pass an unnecessary ban on Sharia Law, that he compared his measure to being like a “vaccination against a disease”. Which shows that not only is he Islamophobic, but he doesn’t quite understand how vaccines work.
Let’s just glance at Hays’ voting record, and see what other deranged stances he has:
- July 27th, 2009: Alan Hays attempts to nullify the Affordable Care Act by co-sponsoring Florida’s HJR 37.
- April 30th, 2010: Hays votes for HB 1143, a mandatory ultrasound bill for women seeking abortions.
- May 5th, 2011: Alan Hays votes for HB 353, Florida Republicans’ attempt to start drug testing welfare recipients that failed to find any significant drug use at a huge cost to the state before the law was overturned by the courts.
- April 14th, 2015: Hays votes against HB 7013, a repeal on Florida’s ban on gay adoption.
After court-ordered re-drawing of the Florida state legislature’s electoral map, Alan Hays didn’t think he could be re-elected to his seat in the State Senate, and instead ran to become the man who would oversee elections in Lake County, Florida. Because Florida Republicans have such a good track record of not stealing elections, right? And it’s not like Hays has ever stated his own paranoid opinion that a lot of Hispanics in Florida vote illegally. Oh wait, he did in 2011.
I’m sure nothing bad will come from any of this.
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