and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell." In addition, Broun is a young earth creationist, and believes that the world is only a few thousand years old, and was created in six literal days. In response to these remarks, coupled with Broun being on the House Science Committee, libertarian radio talk show host Neal Boortz spearheaded a campaign to run the English naturalist and evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin against Broun, with the intention of drawing attention to these comments from the scientific community and having Broun removed from his post on the House Science Committee. Broun won re-election on November 6, 2012, receiving 209,917 votes across the district. Charles Darwin received about 4000 write-in ballots in Athens-Clarke County as protest votes against Broun's views on evolution, while Broun received 16,980 votes in that county. 2016 In 2016, Broun announced his candidacy for Congress. By this time, he had moved to Gainesville, which is in the Georgia's 9th congressional district. At the time, Cook Political Report rated the 9th as the third most conservative district in the nation. He was running mostly in territory that he did not know and that did not know him, though he represented the district's share of Athens for much of his first stint in Congress. Broun ran in a five-candidate Republican primary race with fellow Tea Party challengers Roger Fitzpatrick, Bernie Fontaine and Mike Scupin, against incumbent candidate Doug Collins, who held the 9th since 2012. In the May primary, Collins won with 52,943 votes (61.3 percent of the vote), over Broun's 18,761 votes (22 percent), Fitzpatrick's 8,942 votes (10.5 percent), Scupin's 2,854 votes (3.36 percent), and Fontaine's 2,338 votes (2.75 percent). Tenure On July 25, 2007, Broun was sworn in by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In January 2013, at the beginning of the 113th Congress, Broun was one of a handful of House Republicans to not vote to reelect John Boehner as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; Broun instead voted for outspoken former U.S. Representative Allen West of Florida, even though West lost his bid for re-election in November 2012 and was no longer a member of Congress. According to Politico reporter Charlie Mahtesian, Broun has "a flair for the provocative." Broun is part of the Christian right. In May 2009, Broun proposed a simple resolution that would have proclaimed 2010