Posted on 10/09/2021 1:49:15 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Brett Wynkoop embodies many of the traits that have made his neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn, a stereotype of a liberal enclave. He lives in a century-old brownstone on a leafy street, used to run a local community opera, and is a member of the Park Slope Food Coop, whose far-left political infighting has become the subject of frequent parody.
So his campaign to represent his neighborhood, along with similarly gentrified Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill, in New York’s City Council might seem like a natural progression.
But Wynkoop, 62, has one attribute that puts him at odds with other inhabitants of the district, which voted 98.5% Democrat the last time the 39th District seat was open: He’s a longtime member of the Oath Keepers, the right-wing extremist group now closely identified with the Jan. 6 assault on the nation’s Capitol.
“You have not seen isolated until you have been an Oath Keeper in NYC!” he wrote in a message to another member in March. “Feel like a one man French Underground!”
Wynkoop, a systems engineer who is running on the Conservative Party ticket, does not appear to campaign on his Oath Keepers affiliation. He hung up on a BuzzFeed News reporter who called to ask about it and did not respond to subsequent emails or a knock on his door.
But a review of roughly 5 gigabytes of the Oath Keepers’ internal data and communications that were hacked and leaked last week reveals that he is one of a number of Oath Keepers who have campaigned for — and in some cases, won — elected offices around the country, including for county sheriff, state legislature, and even US Congress.
The group, which takes its name from the oath to uphold the Constitution that members of law enforcement and the military swear, is not a political party and does not publish its membership rolls or reveal which of its members have run for or won elected office. Although some members proudly wear Oath Keepers insignia in public, others keep their affiliation a secret and refrain from using their full names even within the organization. By comparing the leaked Oath Keepers data — which includes lists of members, chat logs, and tens of thousands of emails — to public records, news reports, and internet registry information, BuzzFeed News was able to verify the identity of a number of political candidates.
In New Jersey, Edward Durfee Jr., an IT contractor who since January has teamed up with Wynkoop to keep the Oath Keepers’ online infrastructure afloat, is running as a Republican in next month’s election for state general assembly. And in Wyoming, Michael Ray Williams, a rank-and-file Oath Keeper, recently declared his candidacy for state Senate, also with the GOP, in 2022.
Durfee acknowledged his role with the Oath Keepers but told BuzzFeed News his run had nothing to do with the group. Williams said, “I am an Oath Keeper, absolutely” in a brief phone exchange.
All three seek to duplicate the electoral success of current or former Oath Keepers including Chad Bianco, the sheriff of Riverside County in California, the nation’s 10th most populous county, and Wendy Rogers, who was elected to Arizona’s state Senate last year.
Yeah - don’t do it again.
This will be worse than our Civil War!(/S)
Anything that’s not a left-wing extremist group is a right-wing extremist group.
Excuse me?
I will try.
Don’t alter headlines.
Oath Keeper is a right-wing extremist group?
Based on WHAT?
Ok, so i am an oath keeper, i didn’t even know. (quotation marks deleted per admin mod).
left wing nut jobs.
Turnout is going to be very light, since the media is practically telling everyone to stay home because Adams is a shoo-in.
Plus the voters are probably pessed by the ranked-voting system some sadist invented and early voting schedules. Ranked-choice voting not being used in this election but most people don’t know that. It is a major pain in the rear. So they will avoid since it’s a shoo-in anyway.
That means he has a chance. So does Sliwa.
Indeed!
There is nothing of the old extreme Left that is extreme to the Left anymore.
This has been verifiably the case since Bernie no longer felt the need to pretend he wasn’t a Democrat (because if he had openly operated as same it might have hurt the party).
Now some Democrats still feel the needs to pretend they aren’t America-Last Commies but more and more don’t feel that need because being seen as an America-Last Commie no longer hurts them at the polls … not even when they’re not engaged in voter fraud.
"Ken Bensinger broke the story on Pissgate, a scandal alleging President Elect Donald Trump, had deep ties to the Russian government and that the Russian government has blackmail against him that he enjoys sexual fetishes including golden showers.
Ken Bessinger had obtained the intelligence dossier with the allegations from a British Intelligence official and published them in an article he wrote on BuzzFeed News with Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs."
This is what the "news" media refer to as "moderates".
In the early 21st Century, pledging to uphold the Constitution is extremist.
Anything that supports fatherhood is right wing. The left doesn’t want or need fathers, just government/welfare.
I hope he wins!!! Didn’t know defending the Constitution was an EXTREMIST view?
You may do what you wish if it happens again.
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