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Eric Hovde’s 15 Most Eye-Popping Moments
As Eric Hovde enters the general election, he does so with many still wondering: who exactly is Eric Hovde?
Now, it would be easy to simplify Hovde into a millionaire California banker who wants to buy political power to line his own pockets while selling out Wisconsin voters. It’d also be a breeze to remind voters that Eric Hovde has backed a national abortion ban, wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and supports a plan to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Or frankly, we could just force you to watch his weird Live, Laugh, Love Life, Health, & Happiness video series.
But simply knowing about Hovde’s shady background and extreme agenda fails to encapsulate who this mustachioed carpetbagger is as a candidate for Senate.
That’s why we’ve collected this weird GOP senate candidate’s quotes, some of the most eye-popping, offensive, and absurd moments to highlight just how out-of-touch and yes, weird, this California banker truly is.
Enjoy.
“If they all of a sudden started to realize that they’re going to pay more for their health care by consuming, you know, by consuming massive amounts of soda every day or fatty foods and not exercising, maybe they would change their behavioral patterns…It’s a personal choice but there should be consequences to those personal choices. Fine, you want to do that, you become obese, your health care is going to cost more.”
“Look, I’ve spent a lot of time in Black culture, and as Torey knows, I’ve spent a lot of time in places like Africa because I have homeless shelters for abandoned kids and rescuing kids out of the streets.”
“If you’re in a nursing home, you only have a five, six-month life expectancy…Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote.”
“4 out of 10 children born in America, they are born out of wedlock. That is a direct path to a life of poverty.”
“I mean, look at — alcohol has a lot of negative byproducts. If somebody wanted to distill it, drink it. Fine, go ahead. But, sadly, as we know, it’s produced a lot of negative byproducts as a part of society. I don’t think adding more negative byproducts to society is a healthy thing. And saying that, I think … the horse is out of the barn, and it’s going to be hard to put back.”
“I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands, indiv…under g…indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Amen.”
“Purdue.”
“We don’t engage in hard labor like we did… Think of farming, look at the old physical toll that it would take on the body. Now you’re largely driving around a tractor.”
“Most of the country, sadly, doesn’t know what the heck is going on…They can’t even tell you when our country was founded, who the vice president [sic], how many senators there are. It’s just deplorable how low people are keeping themselves informed.”
“I mean, if you really go back to it, the first group of American citizens that were put on socialism were the Indian reservations…And if you wonder why for the longest amount of time, they had the highest degree of alcoholism, dropout rates, depression rates all the negative manifestations of that occurring.”
“It’s a stupid idea for this reason. All we’re doing is delaying younger people’s maturation. And they need to grow up and move on and stand on their own two feet.”
(Photo taken in Laguna Beach, California)