When fourth graders from Hampton Falls NH proposed House Bill 373, an act establishing the Red Tail Hawk as the New Hampshire State Raptor, they were expecting a civics lessons.

And state Rep. Warren Groen (R., Rochester) schooled them one all right. He announced that the Red Tail Hawk, “grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.”

And for that, Groen gets the 2015 Louie Gohmert Award for Stupid.

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