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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: David Lewis [1]

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Date: 2023-09-30  

Welcome to what is the 1245th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling David Lewis , a former nine term member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who served in office from 2003-2020 . We’ll go ahead and lead off with his voting record:

July 21st, 2015: Responding to the South Carolina state legislature voting to remove the Confederate flag from their state capitol after the mass murder of nine African Americans at the historical Charleston AME Church, David Lewis is one of several North Carolina Republicans who vote for SB 22 , and to make it harder to remove Confederate monuments in North Carolina.

June 3rd, 2015: David Lewis votes for HB 465 , a TRAP law aimed at creating abortion regulations so restrictive that they would effectively force the closure of all abortion clinics in the state for failing to be able to meet them.

April 11th, 2013: David Lewis votes for HB 392 , another of those insane GOP bills that seek to drug test welfare recipients, then lose a state a ton of money on the cost of drug testing only to find no significant drug use until lawsuits against the laws succeed to prove the law is a violation of the 4th Amendment rights of those it seeks to test.

Lewis’ career ended because of campaign finance fraud, where he was caught using almost $400,000 from campaign fundraising for personal use and plead guilty to felony charges of lying to his bank and the misdemeanor charge not filing his taxes for 2018. His prison sentence? Well, as a white collar criminal, he was only required to pay a $1000 fine and two years of supervision.



At least he’s not in office anymore, but it would be nice to live in an age where more terrible people face actual consequences.

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