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A Washington Post opinion piece today highlighted the extreme, “erratic” GOP nominees that are running in competitive House races across the country – with records that include accusations of domestic abuse, believing alien lizards control the government, and theorizing that rape victims are less likely to get pregnant.
The piece points out that Sandy Smith (NC-01) “was accused of hitting one husband with an alarm clock, trying to hit another with a car (and also menacing him with a frying pan) and punching her daughter. She denies that, though she also invoked a conspiracy belief that alien lizards control the government.” Smith also “wants ‘executions’ of those who, she falsely claims, stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump.”
“The Republicans running for Congress this cycle are dangerous, extreme, and out of touch, and none more so than Sandy Smith,” said DCCC spokesperson Monica Robinson. “North Carolinians won’t find anything in common with a candidate accused of domestic violence by three family members. Smith’s extremism will cost her at the ballot box in November.”
Washington Post: Opinion: Think you already know crazy? Meet the House GOP Class of ’22.
By Dana Milbank
October 7, 2022
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“Can we have order in the House? Not if this crowd takes over.”
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“Much of the public focus in the midterm elections has been on the, er, exotic nature of the Republic nominees in Senate and gubernatorial races, and understandably so […] But GOP nominees for the House are no less erratic — just less well known.”
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“There’s the woman from North Carolina who was accused of hitting one husband with an alarm clock, trying to hit another with a car (and also menacing him with a frying pan) and punching her daughter. She denies that, though she also invoked a conspiracy belief that alien lizards control the government.”
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“And that’s on top of a larger group of GOP nominees in deep-red congressional districts who are a motley assortment of election deniers, climate-change deniers, QAnon enthusiasts and Jan. 6 participants who propose to abolish the FBI and ban abortion with no exceptions, among other things.”
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“Some won nominations despite efforts by party leadership to stop them and continue without financial support from the National Republican Congressional Committee.”
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“Maybe this is why Kevin McCarthy, the man who as House speaker would have the task of leading this rogues’ gallery, calls his agenda a ‘Commitment to America.’ Many members of his new majority might be good candidates for commitment.”
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“In North Carolina, Sandy Smith is folding into her plans for the country the domestic-abuse allegations against her: ‘I never ran over anyone with a car and I never hit anyone in the head with a frying pan. … I am bringing a frying pan to DC, though,’ she tweeted in May.”
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“Smith also wants ‘executions’ of those who, she falsely claims, stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump.”
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“The House Republican Class of ’22 will be many things, but ‘boring’ is not one of them.”
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