Ala. Candidate's Views Startle Democrats

AP ^ | 5/12/6 | JAY REEVES

[SmithL]

Birmingham, Ala. -- Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about a candidate for attorney general who denies the Holocaust occurred and wants to "reawaken white racial awareness."

Larry Darby, the founder of the Atheist Law Center, made an abortive bid for the AG job as a Libertarian in 2002, but only recently have his views on race and the Holocaust come to light.

He has no money for campaign advertising and has made only a few campaign speeches, but garnered 12 percent support in the June 6 primary in a poll of 400 registered voters last month.

The poll, which was conducted by a university professor for Alabama media outlets and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points, shows Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson ahead with 21 percent of the vote but about two-thirds of respondents undecided.

The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party began an investigation last week after hearing about some of Darby's comments in a television interview.

While the party supports the free-speech rights of any candidate, Turnham said some of Darby's views appear to be in "a realm of thought that is unacceptable."

"Any type of hatred toward groups of people, especially for political gain, is completely unacceptable in the Alabama Democratic Party," said Turnham.

It is unclear whether the party could do anything at this point, although the party could decline to certify the results should he win.

[MrPiper]

This looks like political slandering and nothing more. I'm from this area and he has put a lot of bad people in jail. I've never heard this!

[Paleo Conservative]

[MrPiper]

Whoops, I reread and I thought they meant John Tyson! Disregard my prior comment. Never heard of the guy.

[jmaroneps37]

Can byrd run in Alabama too?

[FreePaul]

The Democrats can still vote for him as long as he is not pro-life and he doesn't favor tax cuts.

[California Patriot]

If Mr. Darby is indeed a preacher of hate, he should have found other targets. If he had, the Rats would have been fine with him.

[saganite]

Are the Dims having a David Duke moment?

[caseinpoint]

Maybe. Or maybe they are coming out of the closet. Over here on the West Coast a RINO is challenging Richard Pombo for his seat in Congress. This guy was a speaker at a holocaust deniers' convention back in about 2000. He doesn't really have a chance to unseat Pombo although he could do some damage before the final election in November, but it is interesting that they seem to have no qualms about their affiliations. Have potential politicians reached the stage of having no shame?

[Lurker]

Have potential politicians reached the stage of having no shame?

Your question supposes that they were ever able to feel shame. That's offering a fact which is not yet in evidence.

L

[Libloather]

Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about a candidate for attorney general who denies the Holocaust occurred and wants to "reawaken white racial awareness."

RATS are battling ethics problems - and now have a Nazi on board? The RAT party is sinking fast...

[Onelifetogive]

While the party supports the free-speech rights of any candidate, Turnham said some of Darby's views appear to be in "a realm of thought that is unacceptable."???

[madprof98]

Larry Darby, the founder of the Atheist Law Center, made an abortive bid for the AG job as a Libertarian in 2002 . . .

Sounds like a few FReepers I won't name.

[caseinpoint]

Good point. It's Friday afternoon and my brain isn't working terribly well.

[Lurker]

Sounds like a few FReepers I won't name.

Most likely because you couldn't.

L

[rawcatslyentist]

Remember , only Republicans are capable of racism!

PS It's Bush's Fault! He be spyin on you, you kkknow whad I'm talkin boudt!

[Fraxinus]

The Dems are running scared that he could remind voters nationally that the Democrat party used to have a terrorist wing that went by the initials KKK.

[MNJohnnie]

So they are merely going back to their roots. Democrats-The Party of Slavery, Secession and Segregation

[csvset]

Here's Larry.

[Hardastarboard]

I have wanted for a long time to form the "White Aryan Democrats" wing of the party (WAD). I'd show up and be loud and in everybody's face at their conventions so that the MSM couldn't ignore me. I'd be shirtless, skinny and looking like a trailer park / meth head refugee, with a fake spiker tattoo on my face. I'd chant slogans like "Democrats for the White Man!" and so forth.

When I was approached, I'd make it a point to smile and be friendly and talk about how I was taking back the Democrat Party for the white man, and how I'd been voting Democrat for years. I'd be kind of like the Democrat version of the Log Cabin Republicans.