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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Arthur Orr- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-02-19  

On this date in both 2018, as well as 2019, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Alabama State Senator Arthur Orr, who thrice has not faced a challenger for his seat representing Alabama’s District 3 since he originally won office back in 2006. Orr came to our attention back in March of 2016, when he submitted legislation to strip welfare benefits from anyone on government assistance if they own a car, because poor people can’t afford those in his mind… but they should also have jobs. We’re assuming he expected them to walk to work, or take a bus, but in any event, his bill failed to go forward because it seemed to contradict what is expected from the working poor.



While that bill may have ended up as kindling, Orr has earned a reputation for trying to sever as many cords of the social safety net as possible over the past few years, and on other issues, he’s voted just as conservative. Whether he’s pushing potential bans on abortion at 20 weeks or TRAP laws to close all the abortion clinics in the state, his attempts at passing nullification legislation to try and block federal firearms laws the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or voting to drug test welfare recipients (always overturned in courts as a violation of the 4th Amendment), or when he co-sponsored SB 63, an attempt to “reform” prisons by making work rehabilitation a main focus (and also providing businesses with an avenue to get labor as close to as the cost of slaves as possible from a prison population that is disproportionately African American). Even when Orr conveniently calls in sick on votes, it’s conspicuous, like he did on the day the Alabama State Senate is to vote to express regret over the practice of slavery.



For whatever reason, in December of 2020, Orr thought it was necessary to draft anti-vaccine legislation to keep people from being “forced” to get a coronavirus vaccine. Which is paranoid lunacy and not what you would want the leader of a community to be projecting during a public health crisis like the one we are in the midst from. But at least it’s consistent with his pattern of supporting things detrimental to the public interest. Arthur Orr faced only a Libertarian challenger in 2022, and got to sleepwalk his way to re-election until 2026 with 87% of the vote.

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