Why does Rep. Mark Meadows represent a city full of vegans and liberals? Thanks, gerrymander!

This unfortunately, is my district

https://www.salon.com/2019/03/04/why-does-rep-mark-meadows-represent-a-city-full-of-vegans-and-liberals-thanks-gerrymander/

Republicans "cracked" the liberal city of Asheville into two safe districts, and elected a right-wing buffoon

DAVID DALEY

MARCH 4, 2019 12:00PM

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C. almost managed to upstage the circus of last week’s congressional testimony by former Donald Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen with an ugly racist stunt: He insisted that the president could not be racist because he employed a black woman, then produced and pointed to her like a human political prop.

That Meadows grabbed the spotlight with another breathtaking move from the far right playbook comes as no surprise to those who have followed his rise from small-town sandwich shop owner to congressional power-broker and chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. Meadows won his seat, after all, by flirting with birtherism and vowing “we will send Obama back home to Kenya or wherever it is.”

As Salon's Shira Tarlo recently wrote, Meadows also said during his 2012 campaign that Sharia law was "taking over the British Parliament." As recently as 2015, he told an interviewer for a Jewish publication that Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group backed by Iran, was "everywhere" in North America, and was involved in "drug and tobacco trafficking in North Carolina." (To state what ought to be obvious, none of those claims has any basis in fact.

Once elected to Congress, Meadows forced out then-Speaker John Boehner for the sin of being insufficiently conservative; he filed a “motion to vacate,” essentially a parliamentary motion of no confidence, that Boehner knew he was unlikely to survive. During Barack Obama’s presidency, Meadows pushed dozens of Obamacare repeal votes, and even manufactured the 2013 government shutdown as part of his failed strategy to defund the Affordable Care Act.

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