Welcome to what is the 907th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Russ Fulcher, the current U.S. House Representative for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District, who with a resume of being an Idaho State Senator for eight years, swooped in to run for that seat back in 2018 upon the foolhardy decision by its former occupant, former Congressman Raul Labrador, to make an ill-advised run for Governor of Idaho. Four years prior, Fulcher himself made an ill-fated run for Governor of Idaho, losing to Gov. Butch Otter in that legendary race that featured the clusterf*** debate with Harley Brown and Walt Bayes.
By merely being the third craziest person at that debate, it might be easy to overlook what a piece of work Russ Fulcher is. But when someone attributes obvious statistical and scientific evidence of climate change being a major concern that threatens the globe to simply being “in the cycle that’s happened since the beginning of time”, we’re at least going to put a profile here on the back-burner for a bit. The fact that Fulcher now is a freshman member of Congress makes us think we may have put it off too long.
Here’s the interesting thing… Russ Fulcher was elected partially because his campaign kept the fact that his wife Kara, the mother of his three children, filed for divorce only days before the election, citing “adultery” as the reason to being the end of their 32 year marriage. Again, the GOP “party of family values” hypocrisy jumps out at us, as Fulcher is against same sex couples that would be monogamous getting married. While we’re at it, he’ll even vote against workplace protections for the LGBTQ community.
And since we’re opening up on ludicrous hypocrisy or extreme policy stances from Russ Fulcher, we’ll note he’s also got a 100% rating from the NRA, wants the pointless, racist Trump vanity project of a border wall on the U.S./Mexico border, is a Personhood supporter, and boasts of how as a state senator in Idaho, he worked to get a “pro-life clinic” right next to a Planned Parenthood back in 2013. We’ll note that last “achievement” is more dubious, because the Stanton Healthcare Center has made international headlines for disseminating false information about abortion and cancer links to the public.
In his one term in Congress, Fulcher has shown us exactly what kind of extremist he is:
- January 22nd, 2019: Fulcher votes against HR 676, which would prevent Donald Trump from doing the unthinkable and walking away from our allies in NATO to appease the Russians.
- January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Fulcher voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
- February 28th, 2019: Fulcher 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. Fulcher 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: Russ Fulcher 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 their domestic partners.)
- May 17th, 2019: Fulcher votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
- June 4th, 2019: Rep. Fulcher votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
- July 16th, 2019: Russ Fulcher votes 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”.
- October 17th, 2019: Fulcher is one of 60 Republicans who vote against HJ Res 77, which opposed Donald Trump’s disastrous decision to abandon Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria to the mercies of a Turkish invasion.
- October 23rd, 2019: Fulcher is one of 41 Republicans who, while staring down the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached, stage a ridiculous publicity stunt in response by crashing a classified impeachment inquiry hearing for a “protest”.
- December 18th, 2019: Fulcher ignores his 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: Fulcher votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Russ Fulcher faces off against Democrat Rudy Soto in November, and will likely win re-election given that the Cook Paristan Voting Index gives his district a +19 Republican lean. We will be continuing to monitor him closely, given how he is “all in” on the Trump agenda, enough that he followed Congressman Matt Gaetz into invading a classified impeachment hearing, and how from a policy standpoint, he seems to be dead set on being one of the biggest extremist hypocrites in Congress for at least the next decade.
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