Vote. Vote Blue. Here's One Reason Why.

I know not everyone lives in Georgia but telling you about the lunacy that is Herschel Walker doesn’t apply to just Georgians, it applies to us all because it shows the hypocrisy of the GOP when it comes to their candidates; they literally don’t care is the candidate is ill-equipped … Marjorie Taylor Green … uneducated … Lauren Boebert … or a combination of both … Herschel Walker … as long as the GOP can put butts in seats in Congress and take control. So, let’s take a look at the GOP poster boy for Senate:

Herschel Walker has criticized absentee fathers.

Fact: Walker had refused to publicly acknowledge three of his children but has since said he has “four children. Three sons and a daughter. They’re not ‘undisclosed’—they’re my kids. I support them all and love them all.”

Herschel Walker paid for a woman to have an abortion in 2009 and urged her to end a second pregnancy in 2011; She declined.

Fact: Walker’s responses have been incoherent:

“The first I knew about any of this was when some reporter asked me about an abortion. And I’m like, ‘No, that’s a lie.’ And when I was asked if I paid for an abortion, and I said, ‘No.’ I did not pay for an abortion. I’m not saying she did or didn’t have [an abortion]. I’m saying I don’t know anything about that. I don’t know.”

Now he admits that he knows the woman, had a relationship with the woman, but never asked her to have an abortion, paid for the abortion, or asked her to have a second abortion. The woman is the mother of one of Walker’s formerly “undisclosed” children.

Fact: The GOP and Christian groups are standing behind Walker, refusing to even acknowledge the evidence, clearly showing that neither group is Pro-life, they are simple pro-GOP, no matter what.

Herschel Walker’s campaign claimed he had a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and graduated in the top 1% of his class from the University of Georgia.

 Fact: Walker never got a bachelor’s in criminal justice, even though he said it, and wrote about in his book. Walker now says never graduated, but also claims he never claimed to have graduated from the University of Georgia.

Herschel  Walker claimed to have extensive experience in law enforcement, working as a police officer with the Cobb County Police Department in 2017 and training with the FBI in 2019.

Fact: The Cobb County Police Department has no records of Walker working for them. His campaign now says he was an “honorary deputy” for Cobb County  and taught a “women’s self-defense training” at the FBI. Of note, teaching a class and being an “honorary deputy” aren’t the same as being a police officer or an FBI agent.

Fact: At a debate last week, Raphael Warnock criticized Walker for his claims of working in law enforcement, at which point Walker pulled out a fake police badge and held it up on stage.

Herschel Walker claimed to have founded Patriot Support, a nonprofit veterans’ charity, which treats thousands “of soldiers a year.”

Fact: Patriot Support is a for-profit program run by Universal Health Services. Walker never founded the group, but was a paid spokesperson for the company, earning $331,000 last year.

Fact: After that lie was exposed, Walker issued another false claim, saying he started Ascend Health’s Freedom Care program, a veterans’ program similar to Patriot Support. Again, Walker never founded the group, but was just a paid spokesperson, which we know because Freedom Care was developed by Ascend Health in 2006, a year before Walker claimed to have created it.” 

Herschel Walker claimed to have donated about 15% of the profits from his businesses to charity.

Fact: When The New York Times reached out to these charities “one declined to comment and the other three said they had no record or recollection of any gifts from the [Walker’s] company in the last decade.” Walker’s campaign issued a short statement: “Herschel Walker has given millions of dollars to charities.” The statement did not address the Times’ claim or why the charities said they had no record of gifts from Walker’s company.

Herschel  Walker claimed to have owned the largest upholstery business in the country.

Fact: Walker does not now and has never owned any sort of upholstery business.

Herschel Walker claimed to be Native American on his mother’s side, stating that his grandmother was a “full-blooded Cherokee.”

Fact: His own mother was unable to confirm these claims in an interview but remember how the Right went after Elizabeth Warren when she claimed to be Native American?

Herschel Walker, whose campaign is endorsed by Thing 45, supports The Big Lie, even saying he’s unsure if Biden had been lawfully elected.

Fact: Multiple lawsuits in Georgia and elsewhere alleging election fraud have been filed and dismissed. And it is in Georgia that Thing 45 faces his biggest legal challenge in the form of the investigation into his [recorded] attempt to make state election officials find him 11,780 votes.

Herschel Walker, during that debate with Raphael Warnock, was asked if the federal government should step in to make sure everyone has access to health care:

Fact: Walker said“Well, right now, people have coverage for health care. It’s according to what type of coverage do you want. Because if you have an able-bodied job, you’re going to have health care, but everyone else—have health care is the type of health care you’re going to get. And I think that is the problem.”

Fact: Walker claimed Raphael Warnock wants people to “depend on the government … and get on the health care he’s got.” Raphael Warnock, as a US Senator, is on a government health care plan, like Walker will be, if elected.

Again, Herschel Walker is running for Senate in Georgia, and while we don’t all live in Georgia, why should this matter? It matters because this is a man who lies, almost constantly and pathologically, and the GOP and so-called Christians continue to support him because they don’t care that he lies, even about abortion, if they can get one more Senate seat.

For the GOP it isn’t about honesty and integrity and democracy, it’s about control and power, and we’ve seen in the last couple of months, with SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade, how the GOP relishes power. You may not think Walker’s election, or the election of any Republican natters to you, but let me remind you: they have come for women and are now setting their eyes on the LGBTQ+ community. What makes you think they won’t come for you?