{"id":6037,"date":"2018-01-27T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=6037"},"modified":"2024-09-23T22:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:50:28","slug":"another-way-spelling-rino-malek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/another-way-spelling-rino-malek\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Way of Spelling RINO is MALEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a short quiz to help you determine whether a particular candidate for Idaho&#8217;s First Congressional District is a &#8220;true&#8221; Republican or a Democrat in disguise (usually referred to as a &#8220;RINO&#8221; or &#8220;Republican In Name Only.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would a Republican or Democrat vote for the state exchange and be the only Republican state to embrace Obamacare?<\/strong> <em>Luke Malek did. Malek was working for Heritage Health at the time and Heritage received a six-figure grant as a result of Idaho adopting the health exchange. During the debate, Malek acknowledged he had a conflict of interest but voted to support the exchange anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would a Republican or Democrat vote for a $94 million-dollar tax increase on fuel and auto registration?<\/strong> <em>(H312 April 10, 2015) Luke Malek did.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Given the fact that Idaho is acknowledged to be a &#8220;Republican&#8221; state, wouldn&#8217;t you expect a Republican legislative representative to have a high Freedom Index from the Idaho Freedom Foundation?<\/strong> <em>Luke Malek has a 43% Freedom Index rating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would a Republican or Democrat vote for the state to recognize homosexual unions, aka &#8220;marriages<\/strong><em>&#8220;<\/em><strong>? <\/strong><em>Luke Malek did. (H425 Jan. 25, 2016) This is despite the fact that Idaho voters struck down the same-sex &#8220;marriage&#8221; concept 63% to 37% in 2006.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would a Republican or Democrat vote to allow foreign court judgments to be enforced domestically without appeal? <\/strong><em>Luke Malek did. (H1 May 18, 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would a Republican or Democrat vote against repealing the grocery tax? <\/strong><em>Luke Malek did.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2017\/mar\/27\/idaho-lawmakers-back-repeal-of-sales-tax-on-grocer\/#\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Idaho lawmakers back repeal of sales tax on groceries, send bill to Gov. Otter&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would an Idaho Republican support the duly elected President of the United States?<\/strong> <em>Malek wrote on Twitter (Aug 2015) that Donald Trump &#8220;can go straight to hell.&#8221; Luke Malek was quoted in the Spokesman Review (Oct 10 2016) &#8220;I have never supported him (Donald Trump), and never will.&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/blogs\/hbo\/2016\/oct\/10\/malek-condemns-embarrassing-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Malek condemns embarrassing Trump&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would a Republican or Democrat vote in favor of Obama&#8217;s DACA Act regarding illegal aliens and think it should be the law?<\/strong> <em>Luke Malek thinks it should be the law of the land.<\/em>\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/the-ppppod\/malek-monday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soundcloud.com\/the-ppppod\/malek-monday<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>47:04 &#8211; &#8220;We need good policy set in law by Congress to protect this policy [DACA]&#8221;<br \/>\n47:45 &#8211; &#8220;For childhood arrivals, it is important to have a path and I think the policy that is used for that determination [Obama&#8217;s DACA] is great.&#8221;<br \/>\n48:15 &#8211; &#8220;A solution could be taking those criteria that are out there that are currently in the Deferred Action program and putting it into statute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are Republicans or Democrats typically endorsed by the very progressive AFL\/CIO?<\/strong> <em>Luke Malek and liberal Republican Senator Shawn Keogh were in 2014, along with 52 Democrats. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/blogs\/hbo\/2014\/jul\/10\/afl-cio-backs-51-ds-keough-malek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;AFL-CIO Backs 51 D&#8217;s, Keough, Malek&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would a Republican or Democrat vote to amend the civil asset forfeiture law?<\/strong> <em>Luke Malek voted against amending the law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would a Republican or Democrat vote to restrict your Second Amendment rights?<\/strong> <em>Luke Malek did an interview where he was asked if he would consider gun control, or if he would always vote to expand gun rights. There was a long pause and hesitation by Rep. Malek. He then responded, &#8220;Bump stocks are something I would take a look at.&#8221; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahosaa.org\/the-scary-part-about-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;The Scary Part About Today?&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coeur d&#8217;Alene city councilman Dan Gookin had this to say about Luke Malek:<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malek2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6038\" src=\"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malek2-240x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malek2-240x163.jpg 240w, https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malek2-414x279.jpg 414w, https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malek2.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Here&#8217;s who Malek represents, in order of importance to him:<br \/>\n1. Butch Otter<br \/>\n2. House GOP Leadership<br \/>\n3. The local GOP who gets him elected<br \/>\n4. The citizens of his district&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/opencda.com\/?p=19699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lukey Doody &amp; Buffalo Butch<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>It would appear as though Luke Malek likes to vote for higher taxes. He&#8217;s endorsed by labor unions. He really likes Obamacare and DACA. He hates our duly elected President. Hmmmm. Sure seems to be more of a Democrat than a Republican yet he&#8217;s running against several &#8220;true&#8221; Republicans for the First District Congressional seat. Do we really want to send a RINO\/Democrat to represent us in Washington DC? I don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a short quiz to help you determine whether a particular candidate for Idaho&#8217;s First Congressional District is a &#8220;true&#8221; Republican or a Democrat in disguise (usually referred to as a &#8220;RINO&#8221; or &#8220;Republican In Name Only.) Would a Republican or Democrat vote for the state exchange and be the only Republican state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":6040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,243],"tags":[28,348,484,508],"class_list":["post-6037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-election","tag-idaho","tag-luke-malek","tag-rinos","cat-1-id","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16662,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions\/16662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}