A senior Senate Republican and member of the Republican leadership team has just announced that he will not seek re-election next year. Roy Blunt of Missouri, who has served in Congress since 1997 and even serves as the majority leader of the incumbent house, will leave a solid record of votes against LGBTQ and women.
“After 14 general election wins – three for the county office, seven for the United States House of Representatives, and four statewide elections – I won’t be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate next year,” Blunt said in a video. as reported by Politico.
Blunt is the fifth Republican Senator to announce that he is retiring.
In 2019, Sen. Blunt signed an amicus letter calling on the Supreme Court to rule against LGBTQ people, stating that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. The court ruled on LGBTQ civil rights.
In December, Blunt was a member of the six-member joint, bipartisan house and the Senate’s Joint Congressional Opening Ceremonies Committee (JCCIC) that killed a resolution naming Joe Biden elected president.
During the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, when a never-before-seen graphic video of the attack on the U.S. Capitol was played, Blunt falsely told reporters that “similar tragedies” took place in Seattle when people took to the streets to protest the Police killings to protest of unarmed black men, sparked by the murder of George Floyd.
Blunt voted to constitutionally prohibit same-sex marriage, to amend the constitution to only marry between a man and a woman, against the renewal of the law against violence against women, against the prohibition of discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation and against the permission of the same -sex couples to adopt.
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