Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Bill Posey- 2022 Update – Daily Kos

U.S. House Rep. Bill Posey, from FL-8, who we haven't gotten filed the Birther Bill.

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 Floridas 8th Congressional District, Bill Posey, the U.S. House Representative from Floridas 8th District, the author of HB 1503, aka The Birther Bill that would force all presidential candidates to submit their birth certificates. When asked if he believed President Obama was an American citizen in the wake of that, he refused to answer, calling the question irrelevant.

Poseys also obsessed with overturning the Affordable Care Act, having participated in every attempt to repeal it, and then voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown to attempt to stop it (also voting against re-opening the government when the time came). His one positive quality is that he wants to fund medical research into autism, but it comes with the caveat that hes only doing so because he believes its possible that vaccines cause autism (but he does not believe in climate change). Hes also been a part of GOP efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and voted against the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act.

Bill Posey dodged hosting a town hall in 2017 by instead, opting to call his constituents to let them know he was having a telephone town hall WHILE IT WAS ALREADY UNDER WAY. He was apparently still distressed that upon learning this, ten thousand of his voters bombarded him with complaints, not only about his availability, but how the GOP was planning on exercising control of both Congress and the White House, and defended the move because Gabby Giffords got shot at a town hall. His constituents then further berated him, because Giffords herself called on all members of Congress to hold town halls, as their duty remains to the people.

In July of 2018, after Donald Trump gave a bizarre joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, where he denied Russians interfered in the 2016 election, effectively siding with the Russian dictators denials over his own intelligence community, Bill Posey offered his support to the president, arguing that maybe that interference isnt so bad, because America has done it to other countries for the past 50 years. Posey returned to Washington after being re-elected in 2020 with 61% of the vote, and resumed being a clueless moron as a legislator:

Floridas 8th Congressional District has a +11 lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, which has helped prop Bill Posey up and keep him in place over a decade. Especially when the primary for his seat just gets cancelled. His challenger in 2022 is Democrat Joanne Terry, who had better hold his feet to the fire for having voted against a bill to provide disaster relief to Florida after Hurricane Ian, which is, yknow, a big f***ing deal. Unless shes content watching Posey remain in power until he decides to retire, or shuffles off the mortal coil, thats probably a point she needs to make.

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