After years of pushing a dangerous and extreme agenda, Congressman Roy’s deathbed conversion gets mocked out of the gate
Does Chip Roy even believe what Chip Roy is saying? Certainly no one else does.
His cash problems aside, Congressman Roy has a new TV ad – an exercise in gaslighting so obvious it drew instant mockery from independent analysts following the toss-up race for Texas’ 21st Congressional District.
Austin American-Statesman: Roy ad ‘at odds with his voting record’
- “The framing is… at odds with his voting record.”
- “‘He’s describing himself as an independent, but he often bucks his party not because he’s moderate, but because he is very conservative,’ Gervais said. ‘To the extent that he doesn’t go along with his party, it is because they are too moderate.’”
- “The same database rates Roy as more conservative than 99% of his colleagues in the U.S. House.”
HEADLINE: The Hill: “Freedom Caucus member Chip Roy touts bipartisanship in first campaign ad”
Across the 21st District, little league dugouts are empty because the virus that Roy downplayed dozens of times remains rampant, after Roy claimed children are immune and not at risk and compared bipartisan COVID-19 relief to “welfare” and “free toilet paper.”
Behind Roy’s new soft-spoken tone is the same voice that screamed “I hope you make a lot of money!” and “I hope they make a lot more!” to corporate drugmakers in the U.S. House.
And underneath Roy’s baseball glove? A hand he used to vote “no” on tax relief for Gold Star families – one of just three Members of Congress to do so – and unilaterally block bipartisan disaster relief for Texas small businesses and families hurt by Hurricane Harvey.
“The few times Congressman Roy actually brought Democrats and Republicans together were to condemn him for voting against tax relief for Gold Star families and single-handedly blocking bipartisan disaster relief for Hurricane Harvey victims,” DCCC spokesman Avery Jaffe said. “Congressman Roy is a lifelong political insider whose dangerous agenda has put Texas families and small businesses at risk and his desperate TV ad is one more reason why Texans can’t trust him.”
This isn’t Field of Dreams. TX-21 is Chip Roy’s nightmare, and he’s living it.
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