GOP Rep. Randy Weber Booted From Freedom Caucus

The Texas Tribune reports:

Rep. Randy Weber, R-Friendswood, was kicked out of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus last week. During a one-on-one chat that Caucus Chair Bob Good requested with Weber to address his sparse attendance to weekly meetings members are expected to attend,  = Weber said Good asked him if he had lost interest in the caucus.

The Texas Republican said it wasn’t so much a lack of interest as a dislike for the “burn the house down” procedural tactics the rightmost flank has come to be known for. In response, Weber said Good told him he’d need to reapply for admission back into the caucus.

“It was a shock because I’ve disagreed with some of the Freedom Caucus chairs … but I’ve never had them tell me you need to get out of the Freedom Caucus,” Weber told The Texas Tribune.

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Weber was among the 126 House Republicans who signed onto a Supreme Court brief seeking to overturn Biden’s win. He’s also a co-sponsor of the current House GOP resolution calling for Biden’s impeachment.

Weber is among the House’s most ardent opponents of same-sex marriage and first appeared here in 2015 when he sponsored a bill that would have banned the federal government from recognizing marriages conducted outside of a same-sex couple’s home state.

As you can see from my earlier reports linked below, Weber, a Southern Baptist, has a habit of literally sobbing as he begs Jesus to forgive America for same-sex marriage.

In 2017, Weber earned headlines when he tried to get a CNN reporter fired for “disrespecting” Trump. That came just days after Weber had publicly compared Barack Obama to Hitler.