Republican State Rep. Tex Fischer could be disqualified under the same law used to disqualify a transgender candidate, or even possibly removed from his seat.
  • @reddig33
    121•18 days ago

    Can’t have people changing their names. I mean how would Rafael Cruz or Donald Bowman ever get elected? Oh wait…

    • @[email protected]
      18•17 days ago

      Well to be fair Pudding Fingers Cruz isn’t Ohio’s problem.

      Edit: As a commenter observed, Pudding Fingers is actually Ron Desantis. Cancun Cruz would be more accurate

      • @Viking_Hippie
        19•17 days ago

        He’s a Senator from possibly the most gerrymandered state in the entire country. He’s everyone’s problem and accountable to nobody except the fascist GOP.

        • @[email protected]
          7•17 days ago

          I mean you’re not wrong (I live in Texas), but there is nothing Ohio state law can do about him is what I mean.

          The fuckery Abbott and his cronies get up to in Austin basically ensures we’re stuck with him.

      • @gac11
        5•17 days ago

        Wait, isn’t desantis the guy that ate pudding with his fingers? I think Cruz is mostly famous for fleeing to Cancun when things got ugly at home

        • Q*Bert Reynolds
          4•17 days ago

          And here I was thinking that Cruz was famous for eating a booger in the middle of a debate.

        • @[email protected]
          1•17 days ago

          As a kid, I sucked at who’s that pokemon. You’re right of course, but in my defense I’m not worried about the specific lore of any of them.

  • @norimee
    43•17 days ago

    If the governing body who has to decide on this is GOP led, nothing will come of this.

    They will decide to follow the intent of the law, not the letter.

    • @cogman
      11•17 days ago

      Yup. Still important to bring up these cases to highlight how ridiculous the whole thing is.

      • @norimee
        2•17 days ago

        I didn’t mean it doesn’t matter. I meant to point out the two-faced arbitrariness of the GOP.

    • @[email protected]
      7•17 days ago

      It’s the “conservatism means there must be outgroups for the law to bind but not protect, and in groups for the law to protect but not bind” thing again.

  • @[email protected]
    23•17 days ago

    Republican State Rep. Tex Fischer legally changed his name from Austin James Fischer to Austin James Texford Fischer in 2020

    Ha! What?! Why! What a silly thing to do. I have no ability to understand the motivation here. We are different types of people.

  • @ZILtoid1991
    21•17 days ago

    Not even the leopards themselves are safe from getting their faces eaten!

  • Flying Squid
    10•17 days ago

    I think there’s only one real response to this: