Posted on 05/13/2006 5:36:36 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Ala. Candidate's Views Startle Democrats
By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer
Fri May 12, 7:05 PM ET
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.
In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.
Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."
Darby said he will speak Saturday near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group's Internet site.
"It's time to stop pushing down the white man. We've been discriminated against too long," Darby said in the interview.
Tyson said he does not consider Darby to be a serious candidate.
"I am astonished as anyone has ever been that anyone is running for public office in Alabama on that platform," he said.
The winner of the Democratic primary will face either Attorney General Troy King or Mark Montiel, his opponent in the Republican primary.
Cool! A DemocRAT David Duke! Gotta love them Southern DemocRATs!
We shall soon see if anybody else does. Who's got the popcorn?
The national Democratic Party has a serious problem with this kind of thinking. There's an undercurrent of anti-semitism and anti-Christianity throughout the Party.
You get a hint of it when John Conyers aids pass out anti-Israel literature during a Conyers' pseudo hearing. It happened, the MSM would not mention nor cover it.
Democrats want Christians to vote for them, but when former governor Bob Casey of PA approached the platform committee in '92 to ask for time to discuss abortion, he was not given it.
There's a smell of fascism about some Dems today.
Well to be fair, what would you want the Republican leadership to do if a sleaze like Bill Weld wanted to speak at the party convention about gay rights?
The rest of us obviously didn't see it yesterday. If you didn't want to read it again, don't click on the story.
Don't worry about it. The keywords they added to the story weren't very clear that it would come up in a search of the article's title.
Most of the time when I see duplicates that aren't 'breaking' it is because key words weren't added or they weren't clear enough for a search.
Thanks for the advice. If you don't want to read the comments of those who read this story yesterday, don't click on the link I provided.
Freedom of choice -- as long as it's OUR choice.
I didn't.
Weld is a RINO, that's about all I know about him. What's his position on gays. I don't understand your point.
The winner of the Democratic primary will face the real winner on election day.
Wasn't this fellow recruited by Robert KKK Byrd?
Democrats are allowed to say & do whatever they want afterall they care about the little guy just like Hugo Chavez cares about the poor & down trodden in Venezuela!!!!
The "Atheist Law Center"? Part of the ACLU, no doubt.
The Log Cabin Republicans have their inaugural "lifetime acheivement award" to him in 2003. That should be telling enough of his stance.
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