The 27 Republicans who voted against both versions of VAWA

: VAWA: In the previous Digest, we flagged GOP Rep. Tim Walberg's fraudulent claim that he supported the Violence Against Women Act even though he voted against final passage of the legislation last week. Walberg's claim is pathetically specious: He voted for a poison-pill GOP "alternative" that was DOA before roll was even called, on account of the fact that it deliberately left out protections for LGBT and Native American women. But as I suspected, he's not alone: Indeed, my Daily Kos colleague Kaili Joy Gray has cataloged several other Republicans peddling the same bullshit, including the likes of Steve King and Michele Bachmann! Please stay on high alert for anyone else running this scam, because I suspect the entire GOP is in on this one. Well, maybe not the whole party, because when you're talking about Republicans, there are always exceptions who need to prove they're even crazier than their brethren. In this case, I'm talking about the 27 members of the House GOP who voted against both bills: the real VAWA and the sham version. Here's a full list of these pieces of work: AR-04 Tom Cotton KS-01 Tim Huelskamp TN-02 Jimmy Duncan AZ-04 Paul Gosar KS-04 Mike Pompeo TN-08 Steve Fincher AZ-06 David Schweikert NC-03 Walter Jones TX-01 Louie Gohmert CA-04 Tom McClintock NC-11 Mark Meadows TX-07 John Culberson CO-05 Doug Lamborn NJ-05 Scott Garrett TX-22 Pete Olson FL-03 Ted Yoho OK-01 Jim Bridenstine TX-36 Steve Stockman FL-06 Ron DeSantis OK-02 Markwayne Mullin WA-04 Doc Hastings FL-19 Trey Radel SC-03 Jeff Duncan WI-05 Jim Sensenbrenner GA-10 Paul Broun SD-AL Kristi Noem WI-06 Tom Petri There are some real winners on this roster, outcasts like Steve Stockman and Louie Gohmert who live to make John Boehner cry. Unfortunately, though, almost everyone here sits in an untouchably red district—but there are some exceptions worth pointing out. For instance, I spot one actual Senate candidate, Georgia's Paul Broun, who offers Democrats yet another reason to root for him to win the GOP primary. And there's also at least one potential Senate candidate as well, Arkansas's Tom Cotton. Other notable outliers include Kristi Noem, the only woman on the list, and Scott Garrett, the solitary vote from the northeast. Longtime observers know that Garrett is the most conservative Republican who hails from north of the Mason-Dixon line; he voted against reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act in 2006, for instance. He's proven very difficult to dislodge, but given how far to the right he is, Democrats almost have to find a way to challenge him. Source: Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest