The LuLac Edition #4, 923, February 28th, 2023

THE TREASON AND TRAGEDY OF SCOTT PERRY

(Photo: CNN)

Representative Scott Perry served his country as a veteran of the Iraq war. Perry commanded 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation Regiment during its pre-deployment training and service in Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom.  As Task Force Diablo, 2-104th Aviation was credited with flying 1,400 missions, accruing over 13,000 combat flight hours, and transporting over 3 million pounds of cargo and 43,000 soldiers and civilians. Perry flew 44 combat missions and accrued nearly 200 combat flight hours.

After returning from Iraq, Perry was promoted to Colonel and assigned to command the Pennsylvania National Guard's 166th Regiment (Regional Training Institute). From 2012 to 2014, he commanded the garrison at the Fort Indiantown Gap National Training Center. In May 2014, Perry was assigned as Assistant Division Commander of the 28th Infantry Division and promoted to Brigadier General in November 2015.

In 2007 Perry became a State Representative and then got elected to Congress in 2012. His Congressional career has been marked as a series of votes against the people he represents. Here are a few examples:

In October 2017, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Perry accused CNN anchor Chris Cuomo of exaggerating the crisis in Puerto Rico.

In January 2018, Perry suggested that ISIS might have been involved in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities have maintained that gunman Stephen Paddock acted alone.

In December 2019, Perry was one of 195 Republicans to vote against both articles of impeachment against President Trump.

In October 2020, Perry was one of 17 Republicans to vote against a House resolution to formally condemn the QAnon conspiracy theory. He said he voted against the resolution because he was concerned about infringements on free speech, saying, "it's very dangerous for the government ... to determine what is okay to like and what is not okay to like."

In March 2021, Perry voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. He said only 9% of the act's spending was allotted to defeat the COVID-19 virus, while the rest would advance Democratic policies.

In April 2021, at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee meeting on immigration, days after Fox News host Tucker Carlson promoted the Great Replacement theory, Perry said, "For many Americans, what seems to be happening or what they believe right now is happening is, what appears to them is we're replacing national-born American—native-born Americans to permanently transform the political landscape of this very nation."

In June 2021, Perry was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

At the June 2021 Republican Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, Perry said Democrats "are not the loyal opposition. They are the opposition to everything you love and believe in" and "want to destroy the country you grew up in", invoking comparisons to Nazis.

In July 2022, Perry was among 47 House Republicans to vote for the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and protect the right to same-sex marriage at a federal level. Perry said, "Agree or disagree with same-sex marriage, my vote affirmed my long-held belief that Americans who enter into legal agreements deserve to live their lives without the threat that our federal government will dissolve what they've built." Four months later, in an interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Perry said he was tricked because he did not want to appear racist by voting against the bill, which also protects interracial marriage.

Perry’s biggest claim to infamy is that he wanted to dethrone democracy and nullify the election of 2020. Here’s what was reported by the January 6^th committee.

The Jan. 6 committee highlighted a Dec. 21, 2020, White House meeting focused on the Republican scheme to overturn the presidential election. Among the participants was Scott Perry.

A month earlier, we learned at a different Jan. 6 hearing about GOP lawmakers who allegedly sought pardons from Trump before he left office. Among them was Scott Perry.

Around the same time, we saw testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who said under oath that Trump discussed ideas with allies about going to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Among those the then-president talked to about this was Scott Perry.

A month before that, we learned of allegations that then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows literally set fire to papers in his office after a meeting with a congressional Republican. The lawmaker was Scott Perry.

The text messages Meadows shared with the Jan. 6 committee showed that one member of Congress sent some truly nutty messages to the Trump White House after the 2020 election, pushing the ideas that secret Italian satellites rigged American voting machines and that the Trump-appointed CIA director was in cahoots with the British. The member was Scott Perry.

In fact, just weeks after the Jan. 6 attack, we learned how Trump came to be in contact with anti-election lawyers such as Jeffrey Clark, who was a relatively obscure Justice Department official at the time. It turns out, one House Republican helped put Clark on the then-president’s radar. The Republican was Scott Perry.

Scott Perry is a curious case. He grew up poor with virtually no plumbing or heat in his home.  Yet he embraces a multi rich man like Trump.

Perry risked his life in the military to preserve and even impose democracy in that country.  

Yet he has been involved in trying to overthrow his own government. His cell phone has been seized by the FBI and is the subject of an investigation.

Scott Perry will be indicted for various crimes related to the Insurrection.  When those phone records are released, he’ll be toast. And rightly so. (Wikipedia, MSNBC, LuLac)