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House Minority Leader John Boehner is still soliciting funds for a longshot Ohio House candidate who has dressed up as Nazi officer in historical re-enactment events. And, according to a spokesman, Boehner doesn't fear any backlash. The website of Boehner's Freedom Project PAC has a page dedicated to introducing potential donors to Rich Iott, who is seeking to unseat Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in the Toledo-based 9th District. Freedom Project donated $5,000 to Iott's campaign in September, before images of Iott in a Waffen-SS uniform appeared on the Internet. Democrats have sought to tie several Republicans to Nazis and other...

The time has come. We must ban and censor "Gone With The Wind" and every other movie about war. Despite entertaining countless people, these productions must cease in the name of political correctness. For that, we extend our thanks to Congressman Eric Cantor. A Republican. No, that’s not a misprint. Cantor is one of the GOP’s national leaders, poised to become majority leader should the Republicans win back the House. There’s a far more appropriate term for Cantor: garden-variety political hack. And that’s being kind. Cantor has helped create a sensationalistic story where there shouldn’t be one. In doing so,...

The entirety of last night’s debate between incumbent Democrat Marcy Kaptur and Republican challenger Rich Iott in OH-9 has been posted, and one of the most interesting part of it was the audience reactions. Kaptur and Iott could not have been more different on the issues, and it showed. One of the most tense moments of audience reactio n came when Iott said (to massive applause) that the bailouts for GM and Chrysler were absolutely wrong, to which Kaptur replied that GM and Chrysler’s bailouts were necessary to save workers, a line which earned her derisive laughter. However, at the...

A (Republican) Senate candidate has been called a witch. A (Republican) gubernatorial candidate has been called a whore. And now... a — guess which party? — House candidate is tarred with Nazi."Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi?" You may click to see Rich Iott — posing and smiling in 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking uniform with 3 of his closest Nazi friends... I mean... with 3 of his fellow WW2 reenacters.  "It's purely historical interest in World War II." Hmm. Yeah. The high-profile article — by Joshua Green in The Atlantic — goes on, stoking your...

Rich Iott, the Tea Party-supported GOP nominee for Congress in Ohio's 9th District, is part of a group that likes to don German Waffen SS uniforms and participate Nazi re-enactments, Atlantic journalist Josh Green revealed on Real Time with Bill Maher. The group, called Wiking, acts out exploits from the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, an actual Nazi division, which fought on the Eastern Front during World War II . Iott, who confirms his involvement with the group, denies any belief in the principles of Nazism. "It's purely historical interest in World War II," he told the Atlantic. Iott can't...