Politically incorrect: Rep. Kyle Tasker holds forth on drugs, alcohol and domestic violence
State House Rep. Kyle Tasker is no stranger to controversy. The three-term lawmaker has frequently made national headlines for his impolitic comments. The Nottingham Republican, who is seated in “Murderers’ Row” this term with the team of Bill O'Brien loyalists, doesn’t appear to have mellowed.
Free Keene reported Tasker was spotted toking up outside the State House during last month’s 420 protest and posing for a photo with “a big jar of primo cannabis:”
We recently found Tasker holding forth on the Facebook page of a fellow “liberty” activist. He responded to the unrest in Baltimore with a reference to the HBO television series, The Wire. “I watch The Wire a lot… I want to go there to see all the drugs like on TV,” Tasker wrote.
In a thread about a cigarette delivery service, Tasker wrote, “This is socially responsible… Deliver alcohol too… If I couldn’t get it delivered I would drive drunk to buy it. An addict will crawl through a sewer for the privilege to buy.”
Tasker, you may remember, made national headlines last year when he posted a crude joke about domestic violence on a public Facebook page. For those who might have missed it on the first go round, he recently re-posted the Miscellany Blue screen shot of that original post:
Jokes about domestic violence are a recurring a theme from Tasker. Last week, he posted this image from Futurama with the caption, “All right, I’ve been waiting all day for an excuse to hit a lady:”
A few months before that, he posted this image. The caption reads, “She goes, ‘We like our beer the way we like our violence, domestic:’ “
Of course, Tasker may be best remembered for the time he dropped a gun on the floor during a House committee hearing. In this video clip, Reps. John Burt (R-Goffstown) and Fred Rice (R-Hampton) joke that Tasker only dropped one of his two guns, which led another member to say, “It’s ok folks, he’s got another one.”
“Tasker is an idiot,” concludes former GOP Rep. Ann Howe.