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Barbara Cubin

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U.S. Congressman

The Resume

    (November 30, 1946- )
    Born in Salinas, California
    Representative from Wyoming (January 1995-January 2009)
    Republican

Why she might be annoying:

    While serving in the Wyoming legislature, she handed out penis-shaped cookies to male colleagues.
    During a speech on energy policy, she suddenly interjected, 'I know what Victoria's secret is. She's a slut!'
    At a Republican leadership meeting during the presidential vote recount in Florida (2000), she complained, 'We are bending over and taking it from the Democrats.'
    When a colleague objected to her language, she replied, 'Quiet down or you'll get a spanking.'
    After a televised debate, she told Libertarian candidate Thomas Rankin, who is confined to a wheelchair by multiple sclerosis, 'If you weren't sitting in that chair, I'd slap you across the face.' (October 22, 2006)
    Discussing a gun-control bill on the House floor, she said, 'My sons are 25 and 30. They are blonde haired and blue eyed. One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean if you go into a black community, you cannot sell a gun to any black person?' (April 7, 2003)

Why she might not be annoying:

    She received a BS in chemistry from Creighton University.
    She worked for the state labor department to train minorities and Vietnam veterans.
    She was the first woman elected to Congress by Wyoming.
    She apologized for her remarks to Rankin, saying she may have been influenced by 'listening to too much Rush Limbaugh.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 17 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 109 Votes: 60.55% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 48 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 145 Votes: 51.72% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 43 Votes: 48.84% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 134 Votes: 47.01% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 55 Votes: 41.82% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 380 Votes: 49.74% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 85 Votes: 71.76% Annoying