On this date in both 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Iowa State Senator Jason Schultz, who has served in the Iowa state legislature since 2009, spending six years in the lower chambers before moving up to the upper one in the 2014 elections. Back when he was just a member of the Iowa House, Schultz made a name for himself co-sponsoring legislation to try and nullify the Affordable Care Act. What really got our attention about Schultz was his appearance on Mickelson in the Morning back in September of 2015, when he went on a horribly racist rant against Muslim refugees being resettled in the United States from Syria, where he said, “We already have problems with concentrations of Middle Eastern refugees or migrants coming in and taking over communities. They don’t want to assimilate. They do not want to become Americans. They only want the free stuff from America. They practice a religion that orders them to dominate and they want to live under Sharia law which they will not subordinate under our law while they live here and enjoy our protections and our goodies. It’s an invasion” to spread their own theology by force.”While Schultz would like to spread paranoid lies about Syrians fleeing their nation for their lives, he supports Personhood and would do anything to save the lives of zygotes. Because they should have Constitutional rights to vote and have gun (while not having a heartbeat yet), and the refugees think they’re entitled to “free stuff”. His voting record also includes opposition to raising the minimum wage (during the worst period of income inequality in our nation in almost a century), opposition to a ban on gay conversion therapy on minors, and he voted against crimes against individuals based on their gender identity or expression as hate crimes, besides being a big supporter of stricter Voter ID regulations that suppress the vote in the name of preventing statistically non-existent in-person voter fraud. He also sponsored of a bill to try and implement the unconstitutional AND failed conservative policy of drug testing welfare recipients to Iowa. The estimated price tag on implementing such a measure, that always fails to find drug use or any “savings” for the state? $100 million. Well, isn’t that “fiscally conservative” of you, Jason. Way to rack up a nine-figure bill just to shame poor people. Schultz was re-elected 2018 mid-terms, because he was allowed to run unopposed.In 2019, Schultz insisted there should be work requirements for people on Medicaid, even though many people on Medicaid are literally physically incapable of doing work. With the threat of the coronavirus looming this year, Jason Schultz responded as you might expect… he sponsored legislation that would require public aid recipients to face constant scrutiny for “potential fraud” and have their benefits taken away. Schultz beamed with pride that his pitch had him compared to “Dr. Evil”, and wanted to spend $1.8 million to create an investigated bureau that would try to justify its existence by “proving” a supposed $12 million in imaginary abuse of government programs.It's the sort of soulless conservative extremism one might expect from someone in a leadership position with the policy group ALEC.Jason Schultz last won re-election on the benefit of only getting a libertarian challenger for his seat, so he’ll be putzing around the Iowa State Senate for another term years so he can do things like trying to block schools from mandating children be vaccinated against Covid-19 while spreading misinformation that the vaccines don’t work anyway, voting to try and prohibit gender-affirming care for minors, and voting for a ban on abortion at six weeks, before most women even can know if they’re pregnant in the first place.He is running for re-election again in 2024, and here’s hoping the Hawkeye state can be rid of him in November.
One Year Ago, December 6th, 2022: Jason Schultz (IA) …2022 Update
Two Years Ago, December 6th, 2021: Jason Schultz (IA) …2021 Update
Three Years Ago, December 6th, 2020: Jason Schultz (IA) …2020 Update
Four Years Ago, December 6th, 2019: Bill Drennan (VA)
Five Years Ago, December 6th, 2018: Jason Schultz (IA) …2018 Update
Six Years Ago, December 6th, 2017: Jason Schultz (IA) …Original Profile
Seven Years Ago, December 6th, 2016: Steve Hickey (SD)
Eight Years Ago, December 6th, 2015: Chris Corley (SC)
Nine Years Ago, December 6th, 2014: Cynthia Davis (MO)
