On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Arizona’s 6th Congressional District, David Schweikert, a former real estate vulture capitalist arch-conservative who consistently votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, defund Planned Parenthood, fails to understand how the debt ceiling works, referred to the 2013 Government Shutdown as “my idea of fun”, and was once recorded on video high-fiving Rep. Ben Quayle on the floor of the house after denying a pay increase to active duty soldiers fighting the War on Terror.
If that isn’t tacky enough, he also showed a lack of character when he then turned around after redistricting and ran against Quayle in the 2012 GOP Primary in Arizona’s 6th District, instead of the 5th, because he preferred how gerrymandered it was compared to where he started. Schweikert managed to defeat Quayle in part by running campaign ads that insinuated he was bisexual, and as a result, the rest of the Congressional delegation from Arizona has turned their backs on him, and John Boehner removed him from all his committee assignments because, as one GOP staffer said of Schweikert, he’s “one of the most egregious ***holes in the party”.
This is what his OWN party thinks of him. Democrats don’t disagree, and certainly unions don’t either, with Schweikert having compared the unions to Nazis, saying, “Goebbels would be proud of them.”
Schweikert’s relationship with those constituents has soured, as he has repeatedly dodged town halls and seen constituents host ones with him in absentia, and his home office in his district has responded to those who brought cookies and hoped to set up meetings with him… by calling the police and trying to have them arrested. For sharing baked goods, apparently.
He was fund-raising in 2018 by claiming Democratic organizations in his district who want to flip his seat were “inciting violence” and “setting cars on fire”. Big surprise, that was not based in reality, unless maybe you get your news from Alex Jones, in which case you aren’t based in reality anyway. As stated, Schweikert’s Arizona district is one of the more conservative in the state, and he won re-election in 2018 with only 55% of the vote over Anita Malik, after talking down to Malik and telling her that “87 is more than 84”, during their debate leading her to snap back, “Yes, I know 87 is larger than 84, so thank you for that condescension.”
In 2020, he hung on again, but with only 52% of the vote against Dr. Hiral Tipirneni. In spite of the fact that he was forced to admit to 11 ethics violations in his attempts to win office in the first place, most of which included a refusal to diagnose loans and campaign contributions along the way.
So this insipid wanker is back in DC, doing things like this:
- December 18th, 2019: Schweikert 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: Schweikert votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- January 7th, 2021: David Schweikert 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. Schweikert 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: David Schweikert 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: Schweikert votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Schweikert 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: David Schweikert votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Schweikert votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Schweikert votes 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: Rep. Schweikert votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- May 20th, 2021: Schweikert is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
- November 5th, 2021: David Schweikert votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- March 31st, 2022: Schweikert votes against HR 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would limit the cost that drug companies could list insulin at to $35 and make sure no diabetic was priced out of surviving their condition. Bill Davidson would rather they be gouged by pharmaceutical giants and/or die.
- May 18th, 2022: David Schweikert is one of 192 Republicans who votes against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
- May 18th, 2022: Rep. Schweikert votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because these days, a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly domestic terror.
- May 19th, 2022: Schweikert votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
- July 15th, 2022: David Schweikert votes against House Amendment 262, which would require the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Defense to publish a report on the infiltration of American law enforcement by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, offer measures to be taken to remove them from their ranks, and prevent further infiltration by others.
- July 13th, 2022: Schweikert votes against the Honoring Our PACT Act, to provide healthcare to veterans affected by toxic burn pits while serving in the War on Terror that leave them more susceptible to forms of cancer.
- July 19th, 2022: Rep. Schweikert is one of 157 Republicans who votes against the “Respect for Marriage Act”, which would codify same sex marriage into law nationally.
- July 21st, 2022: Schweikert is one of 195 Republicans who votes against the Right to Contraception Act, which codified the right of Americans to have access to birth control.
David Schweikert is keeping keeping his fingers crossed on what the new Congressional map looks like in 2020, because his district has trended more Democratic over the past two election cycles, and for whatever reason, he has always trended further right. He has, however, been oddly quiet since talking to the local press asked why he voted for the objection to Pennsylvania’s electoral votes in the 2020 election, and he claimed that he had been shown an “entire three, four-inch binder of the fact tree, and they built a great argument on the fact tree.”
But that is, of course, bulls***, and we know everyone in the GOP caucus was well aware Trump’s “Big Lie” was only that based on the Jan. 6th hearings.
So could there be an upset in Arizona, and could Jevin Hodge finally sweep David Schweikert out of Congress in AZ-6? Man, we hope so. And the local media seem to think so.
But we definitely would like to see him gone, as we have to agree based on all our recap with whomever assessed he was an “egregious ***hole”.