Surf over to Senate Guru for all eight reasons; I’ll just share a few of the most egregious ones. Senator Richard Burr, the wingnut who’s up for election here in NC, has surfaced a lot this year after slumbering through the rest of his term. Clearly he wants to make a name for himself back with the voters, but for god’s sake, he’s such a amoral, principle-free character he needs to be ejected in a landslide. Don’t even bother asking about where he stands on LGBT issues. One example of his character is how he earned the name “Bank Run Burr. “

Richard Burr Ordered His Wife to Make Some Notorious Trips to the ATM

Richard Burr describes his earliest reaction to the impending economic crisis last year and “Bank Run” Burr is born:

“On Friday night, I called my wife and I said, `Brooke, I am not coming home this weekend. I will call you on Monday. Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take,” Burr said, according to the Hendersonville Times-News. “And I want you to tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday.’ I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine the last thing you were going to get was cash.”

Richard Burr had insider information about the impending economic crisis.  Did he warn his constituents, the families of North Carolina that Burr claims to care about?  Nope.  He ordered his wife to make a run on the banks, to cash out all the money she could so that the Burrs would be fine and other North Carolina families would be left high and dry.

But that’s not even close to the top two reasons this man needs to be bounced:

Richard Burr Is a Shameless Hypocrite When It Comes to President Obama’s Economic Stimulus Bill. I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears when I saw a clip about Burr on the local news. After seeing him damn the economic stimulus plan, just this month, as the cash flowed in, he glowed about the Obama government loot as he presented a nice chunk to a local firestation. UN-F*CKING-BELIEVABLE:

Burr was on hand on Friday to present the Bethlehem, N.C., fire department with a grant for $2 million to build a new fire station. Burr called the grant a “great thing” for the area.

“We’re not accustomed to federal dollars in that magnitude finding their way to North Carolina,” Burr said, according to a local newspaper.

The grant, according to the local fire chief, came through the Department of Homeland Security by way of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. That money was allocated through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the $787 billion stimulus measure passed with just three Republican votes in the Senate in February.

Burr was not one of those three votes. In a statement on Burr’s Senate website, published before the vote, Burr criticized the bill for spending “almost a trillion dollars of borrowed money on projects and programs that are unlikely to produce any real broad-based stimulus or create jobs that will still be here two years from now.”

FAIL. But wait, it’s far worse. My #1 pick that illustrates why Burr must go…

Richard Burr Voted to Keep “Being a Victim of Domestic Violence” as a Pre-existing Condition Worthy of Denying Insurance Coverage

In DC and eight states, health insurance companies can deny coverage to victims of domestic violence because they have a “pre-existing condition.”

While that statement alone is gasp-worthy, the story gets even more appalling: this issue had a chance to be ended – once and for all – in the Senate HELP Committee in 2006. At that time, an amendment was introduced to the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act of 2006 that would have forced insurance companies to stop ignoring state laws that provided protection for victims of domestic violence, specifically when it came to denying them insurance coverage.

BTW,  Burr has a lot of fellow pro-rape buddies; check out all of the senators who gave the bill a thumbs down at the “Republicans for Rape” web site. The names will not surprise you:

Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), John McCain (R-AZ), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), James Risch (R-ID), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), David Vitter (R-LA), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Kit Bond (R-MO), Mike Johanns (R-NE), John Ensign (R-NV), Judd Gregg (R-NH), Richard Burr (R-NC), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Jim DeMint (R-SC), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Thune (R-SD), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Bob Corker (R-TN), John Cornyn (R-TX), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Enzi (R-WY)

The one question I have about these Senators and their votes — do you think they would have voted it down if there were instances of men being raped by men under the auspices of a contractor? Just asking.