On this date in both 2015, as well as 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled the U.S. House Representative from Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, Ken Buck, who in his original profile, we noted was forced to resign in disgrace from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado in 2001, and in 2005, while working at the Weld, Colorado District Attorney’s office, he would seize the tax information of five thousand people in a raid on a tax service, getting the office sued by the public for violating their constitutional rights by seizing their personal information. Buck is also noted for being terribly misogynist, not just because he supports Personhood legislation or thinks rape and incest victims should be forced to carry any fetus they might end up pregnant with to term… in a 2010 failed campaign for U.S. Senate he stated his superiority because he didn’t “wear high heels”, and because in 2005, while a prosecutor, he refused to charge a rapist who confessed to forcing himself on his victim while drunk with rape because, as he put it, it was simply “a case of buyer’s remorse” from the victim. Adding to that disgusting moment, Buck also is a Birther conspiracy theorist, a climate change denier, and has compared homosexuality to alcoholism (the latter of which is of course classified as a disease), as well as comparing pregnancy to cancer. Buck has also argued against the United States housing Syrian refugees because, no lie, “BENGHAZI”. Which is remarkable that he’s blaming something that happened in Libya four years ago on people fleeing a country hundreds of miles away for their lives.
Ken Buck, like many Congressional Republicans now that they control the House and Senate, still has not accomplished much. On March 17th, 2016, he had the audacity to sponsor a “Blue Lives Matter” bill, as smack in the face to Black Lives Matter activists. On May 19th, 2016, Buck voted against House Amendment 1079, which would have prohibited the use of federal funds for discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. So if you were wondering, yes, he’s pro-discrimination, apparently.
Ken Buck won re-election in 2016 with 63% of the vote, and currently is still bumbling his way around the U.S. Capitol without any real idea of how to govern.