Who's This Legislative Dipshit? Meet Rep. Scott Wiggam
Who's This Legislative Dipshit? Meet Rep. Scott Wiggam
Meet the beautiful face leading the charge to indict the Republican Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
The Ohio Republican Party would rather throw chaos into the state’s upcoming primary to preserve their stranglehold on the legislature than draw fairly proportioned maps as dictated by our Constitution.
The new talking points among Statehouse kooks is their desire to impeach Maureen O’Connor, the Republican Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, whom they correctly identify as the only person standing between them and another 10 years of guaranteed Republican rule.
The legislators have no actual cause for impeachment other than she’s standing in their way of their bloodthirsty pursuit of power. So they needed to find a hobgoblin who would gladly debase themselves to push this nonsense in public. Unfortunately for citizens of this state, you don’t have to go deep into the Republican bench to find such a character.
Enter State Rep. Scott Wiggam (R-Wooster):
Wiggam, like a lot of his colleagues, was a pawn in former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s machinations to return to the Lincoln Chair and try to extort Ohioans for $1 billion on behalf of FirstEnergy.
He voted for career criminal Larry Householder to be the Speaker of the House, and the ostensible fiscal conservative went on to vote for HB-6, the now infamous bill that will most likely lead to Householder dying in prison.
That’s par for the course in the House Republican Caucus, unfortunately.But Wiggam took his sycophancy to another level by refusing to expel Householder from the House of Representatives after the hog voters of Perry County sent the indicted legislator back to Columbus at the next opportunity.
Oh, and there was also the time that his Latina legislative aid called working for Wiggam “one of the worst” experiences of her life.
She said that Wiggam called her “the good kind of Mexican,” and that women aren’t logical “because they think with their hearts instead of their brains.”
If Wiggam is capable of thinking with his brain, he didn’t showcase that ability when coronavirus landed in our shores. It only took him two months to go from thanking nurses for their labor to agreeing that Dr. Amy Acton is a dictator:
His brain hasn’t grown more powerful, either. Wiggam is also willing to push the lie that Joe Biden lost the election despite having seven million more votes than the other guy:
In a previous life, Wiggam worked as a small business tyrant over a restaurant with 20 employees. He received a Bachelor’s degree from something called Asbury College and a Master’s in Political Science from the University of Akron, a fact that I will now hold against the Zips for the rest of my life.
THREAT ASSESSMENT: Moderate. Wiggam has zero charisma and he looks like a swollen big toe that’s spent most of its life sweating in a boot. But Wiggam is the kind of Republican who claims to hate government despite making a career in government—he served as Wayne County Commissioner before jumping to the Statehouse.
Guys like Wiggam get addicted to the government teat quickly, which is behavior they routinely project onto poor people. He has two more two-year terms left in the House of Representatives before he’s term-limited. Hopefully he retires back to Wayne County, but a leap to the Senate cannot be ruled out. His voters are obviously willing to look the other way on enabling crooks like Householder or racist and otherwise boorish behavior.
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