When the next Congress convened this month, Glenn Grothman arrived as a first term representative for Wisconsn. The 59-year-old Tea Party firebrand has called for the elimination of the African American-themed holiday Kwanzaa—which he says should be treated with “contempt”—and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, which he has called an “insult.” During 20 years in the state legislature, Grothman demanded the curtailment of food stamp programs, saying they “encourage sloth.” In 2010, at the height of the Tea Party movement, he delivered a speech to conservative activists in which he railed against the “war on men.”
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