(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Pete Sessions- 2023 Update [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-08 On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of Pete Sessions, the former U.S. House Representative from Texas' 32nd Congressional District, and somehow still only the second s***tiest person to hold the surname Sessions in American government. In our first look at Rep. Sessions, we identified him as a man perpetually under investigation for ethics investigations, who as the former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee would assure the “party of family values” would meet annually in Las Vegas to see burlesque shows for entertainment, but then was OUTRAGED when Janet Jackson’s nipple fell out at the Super Bowl halftime show. In news stories you only wish were made up, we also talked about how Sessions once missed the ceremony to take his oath to uphold the Constitution because he was too busy attending a fundraiser, and how he was the one who helped orchestrate the 2013 Government Shutdown as a head of the House Rules Committee. In our 2015 follow up on what hijinks Pete Sessions had gotten up to, we added his continued extremist voting record, as well as how he had accused the Obama Administration and Democrats of being “accountable for murders everyday committed by illegal immigrants” that they release (that aren’t actually happening), and how he reacted to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling on the Affordable Care Act by saying that they had decided that “words do not matter” for upholding the flimsy challenge presented in King vs. Burwell. In March of 2016 Pete Sessions decided it’s a great time to introduce legislation “recognizing magic as a rare and valuable art form and national treasure confirming that he believes in magic more than he does climate change (and he’s produced more legislation to acknowledge it). After House Republicans in ruin any chance of passing funding for the prevention of the Zika Virus by repeatedly inserting “poison pill” legislation, if not far underfunding the cost estimates to successfully prevent the disease, Rep. Sessions said that it was proof that the House was running properly (Note: He still considers himself a champion of the unborn). And, after the tragic mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Pete Sessions tries to invalidate that the shooter was motivated by resentment towards gays, and instead lied to try and change the narrative, claiming, The Pulse wasn’t “even a gay club. It was a young person’s club. They were Latinos”. (Someone might want to tell Rep. Sessions that young people or Latino people can also be gay. Oh, and that the Pulse is actually a gay nightclub, it clearly says so on their website and was founded as such in the memory of a gay man who died of AIDS.) Sessions faced no Democratic challenger in the 2016 elections, and coasted to earning an eighth term in office with 71% of the vote against the scarecrows put out by the Libertarian and Green Parties, respectively. But, After fourteen-plus years of Pete Sessions’ bulls***, it seems that maybe even a red district like Texas’ 32nd has decided they’re fed up with him. At a March 2017 town hall, Sessions was mercilessly heckled and jeered by the audience, who were chanting “PETE MUST GO”. He didn’t make matters much better when he during his discussion of Trumpcare that he tried a unique method for calming them down… patronizing: Actually, Pete, the problem might be that you’re not listening to your constituents, what with voting for a healthcare bill that only 20% of the country or less think is a good idea. Whether or not all the boos from that town hall translate to the polls in November of 2018, but did Pete Sessions end up with someone badass enough to take him down? OH. HELL. YEAH. Colin Allred… pull up a chair. Make no mistake, football is one of the biggest pillars of Texas life, and Allred was a four year starter for the Baylor Bears who went on to play in the NFL for the Tennessee Titans. But maybe you’re thinking that makes him just some slab of beef that Team Blue is running? You would be so, so wrong. Allred is also a law school graduate from the University of California-Berkley who specializes in civil rights law who worked in both the Obama White House, for Julian Castro, and the U.S. Attorney’s office. We were ecstatic to watch on Election Night 2018 when results were coming in, and Republican Congressmen were sent packing, and among their number? Pete Sessions’ dumb ass, as he only got 45% of the vote against Allred. Here's the thing, though… Pete Sessions. Like a bad penny, the motherf***er turned up again. He carpet-bagged his way over to Texas’ 17th Congressional District where he ran for, and won the seat that was being vacated by the retiring Bill Flores. TX-17 is the third separate Congressional District that Pete Sessions has tried to be the representative of since he arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1997, and it has a +12 Republican lean, which is 7 points more conservative than TX-32, where he lost in and abandoned in 2018. Thus, he returned to Washington, and jumped right back into the role of being a partisan s***heel: Now, perhaps more telling than Sessions’ voting record upon his return to Washington, DC was that he spent the weeks in between Election Day 2020 and January 6th, 2021 egging on the “Stop the Steal” crowd repeatedly, which, surprise, led to an attempt by domestic terrorists to attack the Capitol on that day. On January 3rd, 2021 Sessions posted on Twitter that he had met with the “Stop the Steal” organizers and encouraged them to “keep fighting”. When the media started noting who was responsible for inciting the mob in the days that followed while the country was in shock, Pete Sessions cravenly deleted the post on Twitter, hoping that nobody would remember his role in helping set off the powder keg. And that, of course, is how you know the GOP are aware how responsible they are. When the true political animals try pretending it never happened, and nobody saw anything. Pete Sessions continues to use his position in Congress to not help anyone but himself, as he’s still under investigation for violating the STOCK Act. Because Texas’ 17th Congressional District has a +14 lean, we expect his career will only end by his choice, or if he ends up indicted for some sort of corruption at some point. He already showed he’ll carpetbag over to another district if he alienates voters where he’s at once, so he’d do that again. 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