Pro-Eugenics Candidate Running for Congress Again
A Republican candidate for Congress in 2004, repudiated by the GOP for his support of eugenics and talk of "favored races," has again made it onto the ballot in Tennessee. But evidently not for long. James L. Hart, 62, who marched with Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, will be the subject of a Republican Executive Committee meeting March 25 for a vote on whether he is a "bonafide Republican," or should be stricken from the ballot in Tennessee's Eighth Congressional District. Hart won 8,227 votes in the Republican primary election in 2004 and went on to collect 59,853 votes in the general election won by incumbent Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., with 173,623 votes.
This guy won't do anything to help the Republican party's reputation as being the "rich white guy" party. I'd like to see him debate Alan Keyes.
Funky Dung
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You didn't note that Alan Keyes has been chosen as the GOP's candidate to run for senator in Illinois against Barack Obama, a very charismatic Kenyan-American who helped edit the Harvard Law Review and may well push for the White House some day.
The Illinois GOP said that they were not influenced by race when they narrowed down the choice between Mr. Keyes and some female activist from suburban Chicago (I think). I found this hard to swallow when the woman was black, too. Not that Mr. Keyes or his female counterpart were underqualified, but come on, folks! Get real. The Dems play the race card all the time, after all.
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Posted 11 Aug 2004 at 11:21 pm ¶While the dems do in fact play the race card, they also got blacks the right to vote, ended segregation, attacked the practice of lynchings, and have strived to make progress on the economic plight of african americans.
I don't mean that as a criticism of your comment. It's just something that I think should be noted.
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