(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Barry Moore- 2023 Update [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-14 On this date in 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”first profiling Barry Moore, who is now the U.S. House Representative for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, having replaced sitting Congresswoman Martha Roby in the 2020 elections after serving for four terms as an Alabama State Legislator who has represented District 91 of that body since first winning office in… you guessed it, the 2010 Tea Party Wave. First thing’s first… Barry Moore’s voting record as an Alabama state legislator from 2011-2018 is pretty extreme, even for an Alabama Republican, including voter suppression bills, anti-immigration bills that were so poorly written they cost Alabama's state economy $11 billion and about 140,000 jobs, several anti-choice bills including a fetal heartbeat abortion ban, Roy Moore's quixotic attempts at putting Ten Commandments monuments everywhere, supported welfare drug testing, voted to bring back the electric chair is a barbaric means of execution, voted a bill to allow adoption agencies to deny gay couples from adoption children based on their “religious principles”, and of course, a bill to prevent the removal of Confederate monuments. Barry Moore also believes in no restrictions on the 2nd Amendment, whatsoever, and supports the vanity project/quaqmire/dumbass idea that is Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S./Mexico border. However, it’s not any matter of policy that made Barry Moore a terrible candidate for Congress in 2020 (or any other year, frankly). Our concerns start with his arrest on felony perjury charges back in April of 2014, when he allegedly provided false statements relating to an economic development deal in the Wiregrass area and comments regarding his Republican primary opponent Josh Pipkin. On Jan. 24th, 2014. Moore was asked by Alabama’s Deputy Attorney General Matt Hart whether Mike Hubbard (who ended up convicted of six felony counts himself) threatened to impede economic incentives from the Enterprise area in order to keep Moore's primary opponent out of the race. Moore denied that was the case to Hart and added that Hubbard was attempting to get the deal done saying the deal was "in the actual company's ball park" and continued to say that financial details were still getting worked out. He later told Hart in his official statement that he "hadn't heard anything else," which according to the indictment was also a false statement. Moore told investigators that he hadn’t told his primary opponent that year, Josh Pipkin that if he were to stay out of the race then the economic development project would remain on track. Moore asserted the decision to run was purely up to Pipkin but added that he would continue to pursue the jobs deal… which, again, was allegedly a false statement he made. Now, while Mike Hubbard was convicted in this affair, Barry Moore somehow evaded a conviction, because even though there was a recording of Moore’s conversation with Pipkin… the jury decided he just had “misremembered” the details from his conversation seven months prior, where he tried leveraging his primary opponent out of the race. This is a “What. The. F***” level of corruption, even by Alabama standards. And a telling sign of what it takes to be convicted. Now, one would think that such a political scandal would lead to the end of a legislator’s career… but that is not the case here. Barry Moore served four more years in the state legislature, and started trying to get elected to Congress in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District. Yes, he lost in the primary to Martha Roby in that first attempt in 2018, but he wasn’t exactly blown out. In 2020, he won the primary, and coasted to victory in November, given the district has a +16 Republican lean. This was even though in the build up to the 2020 election by sharing a meme where he seemingly gave his approval of teenaged murderer suspect Kyle Rittenhouse, who traveled from his home in Illinois to hunt people protesting the death of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin with an assault rifle. The image in question shows two people on the ground who “didn’t fight back”, and then Rittenhouse, who it credits with “fighting back”. We had hoped Alabama’s 2nd would have cleared so low a bar as “find someone better than Martha Roby”, but alas, Barry Moore is now a Congressman, and he’s doing things like this: At this time, we’d like to remind everyone one last time how supportive of Donald Trump’s failed coup attempt that Barry Moore was. It’s not just that he voted for the objection to certifying the electoral college results or that he voted against medals being awarded to the Capitol Police for fending off domestic terrorists trying to prevent it from happening… for the days leading up to, and then after the Jan. 6th attack, Barry Moore made so many pro-insurrection posts that Twitter temporarily suspended his account, and then he just deleted the whole thing while whining about how they were “censoring conservative voices”. Between that, and that the Supreme Court has stepped in to make sure his district is not gerrymandered for his convenience in 2024, he is contemplating not running for re-election. Whatever it takes to get this seditionist jackass out of office. One Year Ago, October 14th, 2022: Barry Moore (AL)… 2022 Update Two Years Ago, October 14th, 2021: Barry Moore (AL)… 2021 Update Three Years Ago, October 14th, 2020: Barry Moore (AL)… Original Profile Four Years Ago, October 14th, 2019: Foster Friess (WY) Five Years Ago, October 14th, 2018: Levi Athon (OH) Six Years Ago, October 14th, 2017: Paul Babeu (AZ)… 2017 Update Seven Year Ago, October 14th, 2016: Paul Babeu (AZ)… 2016 Update Eight Years Ago, October 14th, 2015: Paul Babeu (AZ)… 2015 Update Nine Years Ago, October 14th, 2014: Paul Babeu (AZ)… Original Profile [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/14/2199421/-Fanatical-Republican-Extremist-of-the-Day-Barry-Moore-2023-Update?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/