An anti-Semitic white supremacist and Holocaust denier will almost definitely be the Republican nominee for a congressional race in a district encompassing parts of Chicago and its suburbs. Arthur Jones, a 70-year-old retired insurance agent and perennial losing candidate in races in Illinois and Wisconsin dating back to the 1970s, was the only person to qualify for the Republican primary in the heavily-Democratic 3rd District. “Well, first of all, I’m running for Congress, not the chancellor of Germany. All right. To me the Holocaust is what I said it is: It’s an international extortion racket,” Jones told the Chicago Sun-Times. Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party, has a campaign website containing a section called “Holocaust?” in which he calls the genocide of six million Jews “the biggest blackest lie in history.” The Illinois Republican Party condemned Jones. “We strongly oppose his racist views and his candidacy for any public office, including the 3rd Congressional District,” party chairman Tim Schneider told the Sun-Times. In 2016, the state party successfully challenged the signatures Jones gathered to get on the ballot. But this time, both the party and Jones’s two possible Democratic opponents have said that his signatures appear valid. No other Republicans will appear on the ballot in the primary, which will take place March 20. The Anti-Defamation League has long tracked Jones, who protested the 2009 opening of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center and has spoken at many neo-Nazi rallies. “He is, by every definition, an anti-Semite and unrepentant bigot,” the ADL’s Chicago-Upper Midwest regional director, Lonnie Nasatir, told the Sun-Times. Jones gave a speech last year at a gathering of the National Socialist Movement, which the Southern Poverty Law Center called one of the “most prominent neo-Nazi groups in the United States.” In his speech, Jones said he was sorry he voted for President Trump, who “surrounded himself with hoards of Jews” like presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner. Read more: https://forward.com/fast-forward/39...e-gop-nominee-in-illinois-congressional-race/ Cons are now showing their true colors.
Do you ever get weary of being foolish? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ellison#Denunciation_of_the_Nation_of_Islam_in_2006 No, I guess you don't.
Sorry, exGOPer, I posted a thread on the same topic before I saw that you had already done so. Therefore, I asked the moderator to delete mine. You can see why this fellow would have an immediate and visceral appeal to Trumpsters: Regardless of whether this guy gets the nomination, I think the takeaway from this story is where the guy feels most at home: the Republican party.
And now for some context. This nitwit runs all the time, has run in the last 7 election cycles, never gets close. Republicans typically don't bother putting up much of a fight in this district because the democratic incumbent holds the big upper hand in a predominantly democratic district. Geez, it's not like the guy is some former convicted felon Black Panther like Bobby Rush, or a radical Islamic excuse maker like Keith Ellison. You know, radicals that the democrats actually voted for and put in office. Let me know if this goof ball actually gets elected and then you have a story.
Nope, the story will be when he is running as the official GOP candidate. The last time the dems found a way to legally block him. Should he become the candidate the GOP's name is MUD. A private organisation like the GOP that chooses not to disqualify him on incompatible values? Hopefully they will. Jesus, literal Illinois NAZIs.
He's the ONLY candidate bothering to run. The GOP is smart enough not to waste time and money in this district. Saying he's the GOP candidate and being endorsed by the GOP are two completely different things. The only people with ties to violent radicals I see being elected and endorsed are democrats.
Sorry, I was occupied and edited above. To say again: Should he become the candidate the GOP's name is MUD. A private organisation like the GOP that chooses not to disqualify him on incompatible values? Hopefully they will. Being the candidate and endorsed are the same thing to extremists.