Tennessee millionaire Trey Hollingsworth, and whatever that thing on his head is moved across the state line into Indiana to end up getting elected to three terms in IN-9 and look out for his own financial interests in Congress.
On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled the sitting U.S. House Representative from Indiana’s 9th Congressional District, Trey Hollingsworth, who was first elected to office in 2016. He is the 12th wealthiest member of Congress as of this article’s posting, with a net worth of over $50 million. He self-funded his first campaign for Congress, having carpet-bagged his way up from his home in Tennessee to end up getting a seat in Congress.
And what immediately brought Trey Hollingsworth near the front of the queue of people we had planned on profiling was his remarks on Covid-19 in April of 2020, where he came out hard in favor of reopening the country, considering thousands of people dying “the lesser of two evils” when compared with the GDP being lower:
”The social scientists are telling us about the economic disaster that is going on,“ he said. "Our GDP is supposed to be down 20% alone this quarter. It is policymakers’ decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say more deaths is the lesser of these two evils. It is not zero evil, but it is the lesser of these two evils and we intend to move forward that direction. That is our responsibility and to abdicate that is to insult the Americans that voted us into office.”
To which, we have a fine rebuttal to say, “Go f*** yourself and your ‘big boy pants’, Trey. People’s lives matter more than your stock portfolio.”
Indiana’s 9th Congressional District has a pretty advantageous +13 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, and that helped Trey Hollingsworth coast to a third term in office in the 2020 elections, winning with 61% of the vote after not facing a challenger in the GOP Primary. He has returned to DC to serve on the Financial Services Committee and find ways to tweak the law to increase his family’s own profit margins. In the end, that’s his only interest in serving in office.
- December 18th, 2019: Rep. Hollingsworth ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- May 15th, 2020: Hollingsworth votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- December 10th, 2020: Hollingsworth signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that she won re-election in.
- January 6th, 2021: Trey Hollingsworth votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Hollingsworth votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Trey Hollingsworth votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Hollingsworth votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Hollingsworth votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Trey Hollingsworth votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Hollingsworth votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because she feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Hollingsworth is one of 172 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 19th, 2021: Trey Hollingsworth votes against HR 3233, a bill aimed at creating of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
We look forward to when Trey Hollingsworth is bounced from office and hope he lands hard on the ass of whatever “big boy pants” he’s wearing at the time when he does.
One Year Ago, May 26th, 2020: Trey Hollingsworth (IN)… Original Profile
Two Years Ago, May 26th, 2019: Mike Coffman (CO)… 2019 Update
Three Years Ago, May 26th, 2018: Mike Coffman (CO)… 2018 Update
Four Years Ago, May 26th, 2017: Mike Coffman (CO)… 2017 Update
Five Years Ago, May 26th, 2016: Mike Coffman (CO)… Original Profile
Six Years Ago, May 26th, 2015: Thom Goolsby (NC)
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