On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled Heather Scott, a member of the Idaho House of Representatives first elected in 2014 based on her qualifications of owning a gun store, and who has quickly made a name for herself as a kook, even among the Idaho GOP.
Her position stances on issues are, like you’d expect, hard to the right, including her support for fetal heartbeat abortion bills, the Castle Doctrine and “Stand Your Ground” laws, and how she has co-sponsored legislation to have the Bible taught in public schools. While that might seem like we’re off to a great start with this profile, if you’re thinking that isn’t quite “out there” enough, in 2015, she chose to wave a Confederate flag around in a local parade (because Idaho’s south of the Mason-Dixon, right?). But even that is only the tip of the iceberg with Scott.
In 2017, Scott was stripped of all of her committee assignments within the state legislature after taunting another female lawmaker that the only reason they could advance and be given leadership positions in the legislature as a woman was if they “spread their legs”. Other legislators, at the time, also reported on how Scott often complains about the building being bugged with listening devices, and one reported that they witnessed her oncel smash a fire sensor to disarm the “recording device” within (Spoiler Alert: She’s imagining things like Michael Shannon in the movie Bug).
More so, she already has called for emergency sessions of the state legislature to put a stop to Sharia Law in the United States (she voted for a bill to try and prevent it) and Scott made it a point to travel to Oregon to check up on the domestic terrorists who were occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, where she collected a “petition of grievances” from them. Because that’s exactly the sort of thing you want your state representative doing… legitimizing militia lunatics a state away rather than making policies to help you at home.
About that last detail… We here at CSGOPOTD have often profiled Washington state legislator Matt Shea, who recently was in the national news when a report from federal investigators said that his activities associating with militia groups were actually tantamount to him participating in domestic terrorism in the United States. Fun detail a lot of folks missed about that story… Heather Scott is also named in that report twelve times, and has the codename “greenbean”, and was tasked with identifying “Patriot bail bondsmen”.
Scott survived attempts by the Idaho GOP to unseat her in the 2018 Primary, and remains in office. However, perhaps in 2020, with her being implicated in domestic terrorism in news reports… maybe this is the year that they’ll be successful in getting the hell out of there. At least, we’d like to think.
One Year Ago, February 5th, 2019: Heather Scott (ID)… Original Profile
Two Years Ago, February 5th, 2018: Alan Harper (AL)
Three Years Ago, February 5th, 2017: John Johnston (IN)
Four Years Ago. February 5th, 2016: Tim Donnelly (CA)
Five Years Ago, February 5th, 2015: Clayton Fiscus (MT)