Posted on 02/05/2018 7:56:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Art Jones is running for Congress in Illinois — and he is going to be the Republican nominee for the liberal third congressional district, over the objections of the Illinois Republican Party. The district, which encompasses the southwest side of Chicago and neighboring suburbs, is represented by 7th-term veteran Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL). Lipinski is a moderate Democrat who voted against Obamacare in 2010.
Jones is an admitted former leader of the American Nazi Party, a Vietnam veteran, and a retired insurance agent. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, he has tried to run for Congress many times before, without success.
Most recently, the Illinois Republican Party ensured that he was removed from the ballot in 2016 by arranging a legal challenge that found all of his ballot signatures to be invalid. A similar attempt this year has failed, however.
The Republican Party publicly opposes Jones’s candidacy: “The Illinois Republican Party and our country have no place for Nazis like Arthur Jones. We strongly oppose his racist views and his candidacy for any public office, including the 3rd Congressional District,” said party chair Tim Schneider in a statement to the Sun-Times.
However, there is nothing the GOP can do to remove him. No other Republican stepped forward to run against the incumbent Democrat in what is presumed to be a safe liberal seat in a tough midterm environment for the GOP.
Jones’s website (to which Breitbart News will not link) includes a section devoted to questioning the Holocaust. He claims to have supported Donald Trump in 2016, but the UK Guardian quoted him in April 2017 telling a neo-Nazi rally in Kentucky that he regretted his vote for Trump: “I’m sorry I voted for the son of a bitch, I really am.”
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Yeah that's it. The whole Holocaust denial, anti-Israel rhetoric, and "Jews control the world" stuff is just icing on the cake. </sarcasm>
There was a FORMER leader of the KKK who as a DEMOCRAT SENATOR was called ‘the conscious of the senate’
Former Klansman vs. current Nazi. You don't see just a little bit of difference in that?
Well, nobody else volunteered to run in a 99.9% Democrat district. I get weary of FR’s who aren’t from an area shooting off their mouths with ignorant observations about an area they know nothing about.
When it was known as the 5th district his father William O Lipinski was the Congressman. The ward (23rd) of which W.O. was Democratic Committeeman elected Republican Alderman, as well as Republican State reps, eagan carried his district both times which included his ward.
Happy with Britebart allowing Jowell Pollak who once ran for congress in the 2nd district (Lake County) in Illinois to cover the story. Because there were efforts by the Central Committee to stop it . Unfortunately any talk of a write in candidate will not occur because of the January 18th deadline to file has already passed.
It was originally known as the 5th district which included the Chicago wards of 23rd,13th,12th and 11th and parts of the southwest suburbs surrounding Midway Airport. Reagan carried the district and most of those wards.
When the district was remapped as the 3rd district the situation changed drastically. And is now taken in Democratic so called liberal areas in the suburbs. Most of those other wards beside the 23rd and 13th have been given to Gutierez largely because of the changes in “hispanic” numbers.
So Dan Lipinski is now facing a serious challenge which will require a heavy turnout which has been reinforced in focus because of the Jones candidacy in the two wards which doesn’t bode well for Ives the Republican challenger to Governor Rauner. In the March 20th Primary .
I didn’t see the part that said he was still a Nazi, no defending him, the stupid republicans should have run someone against the demorat, could have avoided the whole problem.
the fact that there was no republican willing to run against the demorat shows the problem with the establishment, they give up if they think the district is always going to go demorat, instead of fighting tooth and nail for ever district they can get. It might take a while but eventually the district could change hands.
The positions he hold definitely place him in the Nazi camp. Deny it or not, his past is also a mirror of who he is now.
the fact that there was no republican willing to run against the demorat shows the problem with the establishment, they give up if they think the district is always going to go demorat, instead of fighting tooth and nail for ever district they can get.
It's Illinois and the greater Chicago area. Admittedly a Republican has zero chance, and it appears all the sacrificial lambs of the past decided to sit this one out.
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