On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted its profiles of Virginia Foxx, the sitting U.S. House Representative for North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District, who has inspired the nickname from Capitol Hill staffers of “HIDE YER BISCUITS!” from her bizarre tendency to, even on a six figure salary, to wear large coats to buffets around Washington D.C. hosted by lobbyists, and stuff her pockets full of as much food as she can carry in them as if her salary does not provide her with enough cash to afford groceries, while maintaining the contradictory optics of trying to cut funding to the National School Lunch Program.
When Foxx was still a North Carolina State Senator, she proudly compared herself to legendary unapologetic segregationalist Jesse Helms, and upon arriving in Congress, became one of only 11 members of Congress to vote against Disaster Relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, which is even more frustrating when you consider how often her home state gets hit with hurricanes. She referred to the AIG bank bailout by calling it a “tar baby” and then defended her remarks by saying she was unaware the term was a racial slur (but didn’t apologize).
Foxx is also a specialist at revising history to fit her own party’s policy stances, like how she tried claiming the death of Matthew Shepherd was not a hate crime, but just a robbery (and anyone who says otherwise is perpetuating a hoax)… or the time that she claimed Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act without much help from Democrats (when Democratic president LBJ passed it by getting bipartisan support from Northern Democrats and a contingent of Republicans)… or the time she claimed Jared Loughner, the shooter in the Tucson, AZ mass shootings was a “communist” and the “liberal of liberals” (he wasn’t, at all). Oh, and in 2016, Foxx gave a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference, where she exhibit’s an unhealthy desire to ignore the separation of church and state, saying, “If people of faith are not involved in political life, then you’re leaving it to the Philistines. And I’m not willing to leave it to the Philistines.”
Foxx has become infamous during the Trump administration not for any sort of achievement as a legislator, but because the old cross-eyed twit shows up to Trump’s executive order signings that f*** over the middle and lower class citizens of the country, practically giddy at the though of their suffering. When she has submitted legislation, it’s been utterly revolting towards anyone who isn’t loaded, like when she tried to pass a bill to allow corporations to collect genetic material from employees to look for medical conditions in their family history that would allow them to raise their insurance premiums based on the results.
Seriously, what kind of f***ed up Gattaca plot point is that? And why is it that she’s still taken seriously when she’s trying to eliminate all federal education standards?
Virginia Foxx was re-elected in 2018 with 57% of the vote, and has resumed having one of the most conservative voting records in Congress:
- May 2nd, 2018: Virginia Foxx is one of 18 Republicans who sign on to a letter asking to nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Prize for meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (LIST:
- January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Foxx voted against HR 648, because she was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
- February 28th, 2019: Foxx votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
- March 14th, 2019: Rep. Foxx votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
- April 4th, 2019: Virginia Foxx is one of 158 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 17th, 2019: Foxx votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
- June 4th, 2019: Rep. Foxx votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
- July 16th, 2019: Virginia Foxx votes against vote against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.
- December 18th, 2019: Foxx ignores her Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the impeachment of Donald Trump.
- May 15th, 2020: Foxx votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
At this point, we have to ask the people of North Carolina’s 5th District… WHY? Why do you vote for this woman? She has never shown a care for anyone other than the wealthiest people in the country. She doesn’t look out for your well being as much as her one lazy eye kind of falls on top of it every now and then. We understand that the Cook Partisan Voting Index gives North Carolina’s 5th District a +10 Republican lean, and we’re hoping that maybe in 2020, that her district finally decides it’s time to move on from her brand of “tough love” conservatism. Because Foxx is more than happy to try and just be an obstructionist, as proven by her early announcement that she’s running for an eighth term in 2020 at the ripe old age of 77. Her Democratic opponent is David Wilson Brown, an IT specialist who had an unsuccessful 2018 run in North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District, and is trying his hand at beating Virginia Foxx down the road in NC-5.
We wish him the best in that endeavor, because after 16 years in Washington, Rep. Foxx has done more to sabotage our country’s education than anyone without the surname “DeVos”.
