Meet Victoria Spartz.
The newly-election U.S. Representative from Indiana appears to be auditioning for a place in the GOP’s cast of crazy characters, alongside people like Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Gym Jordan.
Yesterday, Spartz, who has a 100% rating with the antigay hate group Indiana Family Institute, gave an impassioned speech to reporters during which she complained about how politics works.
Since arriving in Washington, D.C. in January, the congresswoman has found herself disenchanted by the political process and how challenging it is to find solutions for things like immigration reform.
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“As a freshman, I’m very, very disappointed,” Spartz whined. “I’ll do my part and I hope you’ll do your part to put pressure on the other side that we’ll get to work.”
Spartz, who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine in 2000 yet still supports Donald Trump‘s border wall, also feigned outrage at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for being “the only one who runs the show.”
Running the show, of course, is the job of the Speaker of the House.
She then went on to say Pelosi needs to “realize that President Biden is in charge right now, not President Trump. So, they need to start governing this country, not playing politics.”
We’re pretty sure Pelosi knows this, but thanks for the reminder, Vicky. Now maybe you could let your Republican buddies who still insist Trump won the 2020 election know?
Compared to some of her colleagues, Spartz gave a pretty lackluster performance yesterday, but she’s clearly trying to brand herself as a feisty new member of Congress who isn’t afraid to own the libs and “tell it like it is.”
What is happening at our southern border right now is unacceptable and un-American. @POTUS Biden needs to govern, and @SpeakerPelosi needs to stop playing politics so we can make real reforms to our legal immigration system and legal infrastructure. https://t.co/M3vcWztY3s
— Rep. Victoria Spartz (@RepSpartz) April 20, 2021
In February, she gave a similarly angry speech on the House floor when she voted against the Equality Act, but her remarks didn’t get as much attention as they probably should have given how shockingly transphobic they were.
Spartz went over her allotted time as she railed against the bill’s language on gender identity saying it could be “taken advantage of by criminals or sexual predators” and may endanger women’s prisons and shelters as it would “force them to share traditionally women-only spaces with biological men even if a biological male fraudulently gains access.”
She also said the bill threatened female athletes’ safety as “men, biologically, are stronger than women” and because “biological males and biological females are materially different.”
She concluded her transphobic tirade by saying that, despite its name, the Equality Act was “a giant step back” for equal rights and posed a major threat to religious liberty.
In its current form, the broadly written so called Equality Act creates potential inequality for women. Also, this is yet another bill which didn't go through the proper process and was sent directly to a vote by @SpeakerPelosi. pic.twitter.com/28Ikph65Gt
— Rep. Victoria Spartz (@RepSpartz) February 25, 2021
It should come as no surprise that Spartz also opposes adding sexual orientation to nondiscrimination laws, believes antigay Christian values should be used as the framework for all government, and thinks too many “special interest groups” (read: Black people) use the “race card” to achieve political gains.
We have a sinking feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot more about this woman in the near future.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
wikidBSTN
Another GOP moron elected to the halls of government by other GOP morons.
roiboihoutx
May this 100% pure ignorant, good for nothing, low life, scavenging, parasitical, worthless piece of DNA immediately contract covid-19, SARS, Ebola, AIDS, flesh eating bacteria, insomnia, blindness, hearing loss, loss of taste, and every deadly disease known to the human race…..and disappear for eternity. May this trash become a tiny spec of dust in our universe and be forgotten for the rest of eternity!! I’m just saying, guys!
Mr. Stadnick
We will hear more of her if you keep covering her and giving her press.
roiboihoutx
Boy, please, hush!
Liquid Silver
It’s easier than actually organizing opposition, arranging an opponent, funding them, and ousting this one with, if not a Democrat, at least a less offensive Republican.
The article probably took two hours to write. Doing the above might take serious effort.
cuteguy
The GQP has another hater. What a shock. They just love their white supremacy. Can they just put on their white cone heads on already
Tombear
Why are all of these crazies coming out of the GOP crack hole?
Fahd
Always disappointed when immigrants who come to America for the liberty decide they’d be more comfortable if it was just as repressive here as it was in the old country. For me, only a crazy person could emigrate to America, and then run for Congress to further the racist, homophobic, right-wing “religious” ideology found in many backwaters of Eastern Europe. We should be more careful about which economic immigrants we admit.
Kangol2
I chuckled when I read this sentence: “Spartz, who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine in 2000 yet still supports Donald Trump‘s border wall, also feigned outrage at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for being ‘the only one who runs the show.'”
Of course this wacky racist, homophobic and transphobic woman wants Don the Con’s failed wall (scalable by ladders, no less) to keep brown people out. She clearly views herself as a “White” immigrant and not subject to the anti-immigrant rhetoric, even though those brown and Black immigrants’ taxed earnings probably helped her when she first got here and are helping to defend her former country, which Russia has attacked and is threatening to invade yet again. Not that that logic would register with her, but then she’s a Republicant, and little that’s logic gets through to so many of them these days.
Cam
FOX News suddenly decides to report there’s a “Crisis” at the boarder now that Trump is out of office, and the Republican corporate CEOs in other media follow suit and report that.
Nothing changed since Trump was in office, FOX just needs something to attack Biden and inflame their racist viewers.
James
HOW DOES SOMEBODY WHO ONLY CAME HERE TEN YEARS AGO GET INTO CONGRESS. NO WONDER AMERICA IS SUCH A MESS. I DOUBT THIS LOSER EVEN KNOWS WHAT AN AMERICAN IS.