It was on this date in both 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio’s 6th District, Bill Johnson, who was first elected in… wait for it… the 2010 Tea Party Wave. He’s managed to win four more elections, which has a lot to do with the fact that Ohio’s 6th has a +16 lean in Congress. He’s usually not known for awkward quotes, and he has the benefit of providing absolutely no name recognition. Honestly, is there anything more generic of a name for a Congressman than BILL JOHNSON? That stands out as much as it would if he was one of the townspeople named Johnson in Blazing Saddles.
We give some points on the dumb scale to Johnson for denying climate change science. But it’s not just that he waves away the facts, it’s that he claims he’s an expert because he says he is a “scientist” himself. For the record, Bill Johnson’s “science background” is a degree in computer science… that was awarded to him back in 1979, quite the golden age for high level technology. And it was that resume that Johnson used to stifle an actual scientist from the EPA in a Congressional hearing.
What concerns us more, though, is the level of Islamophobia that seems to have taken root in Rep. Johnson over the past few years. You might wonder why the guy would support Donald Trump’s bigoted idea of a Muslim travel ban, but then you realize, Trump is hardly the only bigot who he’s palling around with these days. Johnson has been identified as one of two GOP members of Congress allying himself with Daniel Pipes, an anti-Muslim activist who has for decades been maligning practitioners of Islam, and after the Oklahoma City Bombing, insisted it was carried out by Muslims, and not anti-government militia goons Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Bill Johnson and Ron DeSantis both co-founded the “Congressional Israel Victory Caucus”, which advises extreme action to help Israel wipe out Palestine, including withholding water from Palestinian settlers.
Delightful. Don’t see how that could be a reason that peace won’t be brought to the MidEast, y’know, trying to get people on one side to die of thirst.
During Johnson’s first eight years in office, he wasted years of taxpayer time trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, twice voted to defund Planned Parenthood, voted against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy, voted against the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, voted to shut down the government in 2013, and in 2018, when his party controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House, and voted for the GOP’s $1.7 trillion tax cut to benefit the wealthiest Americans and corporations permanently that coincidentally also removes the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and kicks 13 million people off their health insurance.
Bill Johnson coasted to re-election with 74% of the vote in 2020, and has resumed being a partisan bag of d***s after spending the Trump administration voting with his party 98% of the time:
- May 15th, 2020: Johnson votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- December 10th, 2020: Johnson signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that she won re-election in.
- January 6th, 2021: Bill Johnson votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Johnson votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Bill Johnson votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Johnson votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Johnson votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Bill Johnson votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Johnson votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Johnson is one of 172 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 19th, 2021: Bill Johnson votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- November 5th, 2021: Bill Johnson votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- March 31st, 2022: Johnson votes against HR 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would limit the cost that drug companies could list insulin at to $35 and make sure no diabetic was priced out of surviving their condition. Bill Johnson would rather they be gouged by pharmaceutical giants and/or die.
- May 18th, 2022: Bill Johnson is one of 192 Republicans who vote against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
- May 18th, 2022: Rep. Johnson votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly now domestic terror.
- May 19th, 2022: Johnson votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
Bill Johnson is currently chaining himself to the legacy of Donald Trump, responding to the Mueller report back on April 18th, 2019, by saying it revealed, “no collusion, no obstruction, no anything”, in spite of all the times that Robert Mueller’s report mentioned things Trump did that qualify as obstruction of justice, all of the hundreds of links between the Trump campaign and Russian oligarchs, and the nameless criminal activities that he forwarded to other prosecutors.
The day of the impeachment vote, Bill Johnson mocked the proceedings by calling for a “moment of silence” for the 63 million voters who voted for Trump and were having their voices ignored by the impeachment. In case you’re wondering, no, he hasn’t called for any moments of silence as hundreds of thousands of victims of Covid-19 died because of the incompetence of the same president Johnson bent over backwards to try and keep in power.
Bill Johnson is, make no mistake, a seditious, anti-democratic mother****er, as five days after the violent coup attempt carried out by Trump supporters because Republicans were supporting “The Big Lie” that the election was somehow stolen from Donald Trump, he was still challenging election results publicly, including in Pennsylvania, a state Joe Biden only won by over 80,000 votes that Johnson isn’t from. Johnson faced zero consequences for it, and won the GOP primary in Ohio’s 6th district, running away with 77% of the vote.
He seems a lock for re-election in 2022 to a seventh term in office.
*resumes drinking*
One Year Ago, May 21st, 2021: Bill Johnson (OH)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, May 21st, 2020: Bill Johnson (OH)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, May 21st, 2019: Bill Johnson (OH)… 2019 Update
Four Years Ago, May 21st, 2018: Bill Johnson (OH)… Original Profile
Five Years Ago, May 21st, 2017: Rick Womick (TN)
Six Year Ago, May 21st, 2016: Jim Buchy (OH)… 2016 Update
Seven Years Ago, May 21st, 2015: Jim Buchy (OH)… Original Profile