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Missouri GOP boots gubernatorial candidate tied to KKK and pictured throwing Nazi salute in front of a burning cross
nypost.com ^ | March 1, 2024 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 03/01/2024 2:49:41 PM PST by lowbridge

Missouri’s Republican party is trying to boot one of its members from running for governor after finding out he was an honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan — and even pictured throwing Nazi salutes in front of a burning cross.

“The Missouri Republican Party has been made aware that Darrell Leon McClanahan III filed for governor as a Republican despite his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, which fundamentally contradicts our party’s values and platform,” the state party posted on X Thursday.

“We have begun the process of having McClanahan removed from the ballot as a Republican candidate.

“We condemn any association with hate groups and are taking immediate action to rectify this situation,” the state GOP said, saying the party “upholds respect for all individuals.”

McClanahan was one of eight people who filed a petition this week to run in the Republican primary for governor.

He once described himself as a “pro-white man, horseman, political prisoner-activist who is dedicated to traditional Christian values” — and has been photographed with KKK leaders as well as throwing a Sieg Heil salute alongside a white-hooded Klansmen in front of a burning cross.

He also says that he has had “honorary memberships” in the Knight’s Party Ku Klux Klan and the League of the South, according to legal papers seen by the Riverfront Times.

“The Missouri GOP knew exactly who I am,” he tweeted in reply to the initial statement.

“I’ve received several death threats today,” he said, making uncorroborated claims about other party members and claiming party leaders knew he “was a Christian identist,” which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “an antisemitic, racist theology” where only white people are the favored by God.

“Again, I will state the GOP knew exactly who I am. What a bunch of Anti-White hypocrites.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: democrattricks; dirtytricks; donatefreerepublic; jimknows; kik; kkk; missouri
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To: Ann Archy

Yep....another DEM plant!


21 posted on 03/01/2024 3:50:01 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: dfwgator

BRYD was a REAL KKK!! And one of BIDEN’S BEST FRIENDS!! DON”T FORGET that Delaware was a SLAVE STATE!! MUST BE STILL A SLAVE STATE!


22 posted on 03/01/2024 3:50:10 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dfwgator


That's a Black man under the hood!😁
23 posted on 03/01/2024 4:04:31 PM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: desertsolitaire

Look who David Duke is a fan of....

David Duke praises Rep. Ilhan Omar

https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-david-duke-a97b8b2d48c163c5965c2574ccbbe3d3


24 posted on 03/01/2024 4:12:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

Maybe he just signed up to run in the wrong party. Democrats founded the KKK.


25 posted on 03/01/2024 4:21:44 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: All

He’d fit in better with the Democrats if he really was in the KKK.


26 posted on 03/01/2024 4:22:01 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: lowbridge

Anybody can register as a Republican. Or a Democrat.

Anybody can file the papers to run.

The NYPost story is working hard to imply a linkage between this clown and the party. Why, he even got a receipt when he sent in his filing fee!!!!

I guess the dems have worked up their talking point.


27 posted on 03/01/2024 4:35:42 PM PST by sphinx
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To: lowbridge

Who knows. But clearly he thinks is 1840. Quite a dirtbag.


28 posted on 03/01/2024 4:42:10 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: lowbridge

No one in their right mind would do this! Cosplay in action? Trying to pull the wool over our eyes? 👀


29 posted on 03/01/2024 4:44:25 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: lowbridge

He ran in the GOP Senate primary in ‘22 and got 9 votes

https://www.showmeboone.com/clerk/elections/results/20220802SPR.pdf


30 posted on 03/01/2024 5:11:39 PM PST by paltz
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To: dfwgator

Former Louisiana House Representative David Duke (R) got 68% of the White vote in Louisiana when he ran for governor against Democrat Edwin Edwards.


31 posted on 03/01/2024 5:18:54 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: dfwgator

Byrd was my first thought, too.


32 posted on 03/01/2024 5:30:51 PM PST by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: lowbridge

Democrats do this every election, taking advantage of the fact that political parties cannot prejudicially choose who joins them. The last time it was some kook in Illinois who ran for a GOP spot that was open in a Democrat controlled district because there were no resident GOP members who wanted to “waste time” running for a seat that was going to go Democrat whether there is competition or not.

Unfortunately, defeatist mentalities are 100% guaranteed ways to be defeated. And, they don’t even wear down your opponents by making them go through the motions and at least pretend to run.


33 posted on 03/01/2024 6:35:21 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: lowbridge

FIB plant or democrat party operative. Now we will hear all about the “white rage nazi” just in time for the current talking points.


34 posted on 03/01/2024 6:45:48 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: lowbridge
Political stunt. and an obvious one at that.
35 posted on 03/01/2024 6:59:35 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
There are some major differences between fascism and socialism, even though they are both left-wing ideologies;

1. Ownership of the means of production.

2. Fascism lost WW II and Socialism didn't, so Socialism gets better press.

3. The Nazi's had snazzier outfits than the Soviets or more recently, the Chinese and Koreans.

36 posted on 03/02/2024 5:03:48 AM PST by Bernard ("It ain't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” Twain)
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To: justme4now

Are you saying he forgot to wash up after the cross burning?🤪


37 posted on 03/09/2024 7:49:58 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Ding ding ding, we have a winner! It fits right in to Biden’s smear that repubs are nazis and KKK.

Even though the RAT party is the Party off KKK.


38 posted on 03/09/2024 8:00:35 AM PST by dforest
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