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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What are the chances his federal handlers put him up to this?
In other words, NOT the party's choice. Just some guy who filed the papers.
He’s probably a Democrat voter in reality.
He could claim he supports Palestinian rights and then run as a Democrat.
exactly. Anyone with a half a brain knows that kkk is dem
Must have been a plant from the dimocRATS as usual.
Just couldn’t control himself.
Obviously a rat dirty trick.
“Missouri GOP boots gubernatorial candidate tied to KKK and pictured throwing Nazi salute in front of a burning cross”
That’s ok, he’ll just go back to his full-time job in DC.
““Yes it’s me,” he told the Riverfront Times of the flaming cross photo, claiming it was in an earlier lawsuit that the photo showed him at “a private religious Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony falsely described as a cross burning.””
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His cross “Cross lighting” is cross burning. Look at the pic, this guy thinks like Bill Clinton.
I would like to know “What skills ‘horseman’ covers”.
Communist Bolshevik thugs (Castro, Che, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot) are romanticized, featured positively in films, and fawned over by liberal elites.
But any association with Nazi Germany is immediately condemned.
Misleading headline. He’s still there.
Alinsky encouraged this tactic.
In today’s environment... more likely than not.
Isn’t it time for Dems to drag out David Duke again for a quote or sound bite against Republicans?
HE IS NOT A REPUBLICAN!!!! THEY ARE ALL DEMOCRATS!!! HE MUST BE BEING PAID BY DEMOCRATS, no doubt!!
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