Former KKK Organizer Runs For Congress In Montana As A Republican (house seat, legal)
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Mont. candidate with KKK ties running for Congress (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_el_ho/us_kkk_candidate - broken link)
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HELENA, Mont. – A former organizer for the Ku Klux Klan said Wednesday he is running as a Republican for Montana's U.S. House seat because he believes people will back him as part of a backlash to the nation's first black president.
But John Abarr, a 41-year-old night auditor at a Great Falls hotel who lost a local Republican legislative primary in 2002, could have a hard time getting any backing from Montana Republicans. His platform promises to legalize marijuana, increase mental health programs, keep abortion legal, abolish the death penalty because he argues it is unfair to poor people — and "save the White Race."
Abarr said the election of President Barack Obama prompted him to get back into politics.
"I think that the fact Obama got elected shows that the white people are starting to lose their political power," said Abarr, who last week filed the paperwork to let him start raising money. "I am running to draw attention to the fact that white people are becoming a minority and losing our political power and way of life."
Abarr, who has previously backed the notion of "deporting non-whites back to their homeland," said he no longer organizes for the KKK but is still on its mailing list. He wants a flat income tax and said he chose to run as a Republican because of the party's fiscal policies.
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Republicans who actively undermined Abarr's 2002 campaign again rebuked him as a racist. Former Congressman Rick Hill said Republicans were founded on freedom, liberty and equal opportunity.
"There's no room for racism in our party," said Hill, who is considered a front-runner for governor in 2012. "That is not what we are about, and we have never been about that."
Leading state Republicans have already rallied around Bozeman businessman Steve Daines in 2012 as the popular choice to replace Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, who is running for U.S. Senate.
Democrats challenged Republicans for attracting a candidate with a racist message.
"This is a relationship that the Klu Klux Klan and Montana Republican Party are going to have to explain to Montanans," said Chris Saeger, spokesman for the Montana Democratic Party. "Republicans should join with Democrats and the rest of Montana in rejecting the extreme, hateful agenda of the Klu Klux Klan."
Of course you'll notice the Republican party reputiated him. The Dems on the other hand made a former Grand Wizard a lion of the Senate. Plus his beliefs parallel conventional Dem beliefs, pro abortion, anti-death penalty, pro drugs, and a racist. I think he is running in the wrong party.
Funny thing is I agree with most of those points (marijuana, capital punishment etc) but I don't take kindly to the idea of "deporting non-whites back to their homelands," since I'm pretty sure they'd file me in that category
Yep, as a very senior leader of the KKK, DEMOCRAT Robert Byrd.......SO I guess most democrats are KKK....I mean that is what you are insinuating...right...
Yep, as a very senior leader of the KKK, DEMOCRAT Robert Byrd.......SO I guess most democrats are KKK....I mean that is what you are insinuating...right...
Yeah I was thinking he was really no different than pols like Luis Gutierrez (D) who if he had his way, would import as many non-whites as possible to forward the latino agenda.
Over/under on the number of times Byrd will be invoked in this thread: 12.
Each time it will be an irrelevant distraction, but ultimately I can't find myself to care all that much about who claims to be a republican or democrat in a primary.
Please explain HOW or WHY I would ever consider you statement as humor? buddy...
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