Reputed white supremacist wins election for Pennsylvania county GOP

[RoryN]

The GOP is rushing to do damage control ASAP. Guess what? The voters aren't going anywhere.

C'mon, GB right-fringe. Stand up for your hero!

By James Eng, msnbc.com

Leaders of the Republican Committee of Luzerne County, Pa., are trying to figure out whether they can oust a reputed white supremacist who was elected to the committee with one vote – his own.

Steven Smith, co-founder of a racist group called the Keystone State Skinheads, was elected to one of two committee seats for his district, Pittston City's Ward 4, during Pennsylvania’s April 24 primary election.

Pennsylvania election law allows any registered Republican or Democrat to write in their name to become a member of the County Committee. Smith was elected with only one write-in vote, which he has since acknowledged was his own, said Terry Casey, chairman of the Luzerne County Republican Party.

“We unequivocally denounce Mr. Smith and his abhorrent views and would like to make it clear that in no way do his personal views reflect the views of the Republican Party,” the Luzerne County Republican Committee said in a statement issued this week.

The county GOP’s executive committee will meet to discuss what action, if any, it can take in response to Smith’s election, Casey told the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. No action is likely until after the next county convention is held to elect a new chairman, which won’t be until late June at the earliest, Casey told msnbc.com.

“I’m not sure what procedure will be introduced,” he said.

“I have heard many people stating they’re very, very unhappy with this situation and are looking to remedy it. I would be surprised if there isn’t such a thing proposed.”

The GOP committee’s current bylaws don’t include a provision that would allow a member to be expelled for his beliefs.

Smith told the Times Leader he intends to serve out his four-year term and will resist any effort to remove him. "I’m community-minded and wanted to get my foot in the door,” he said, explaining why he sought the political post.

News of Smith’s election victory went viral after he posted an announcement titled “I won election to the Republican Party’s County Committee,” along with a picture of his certificate of election, to an online forum called WhiteNewsNow.com.

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party spread word of Smith’s election by posting a link on its website to a Southern Poverty Law Center report on Smith’s white supremacist ties. Luzerne County GOP officials accused state Democrats of trying to "create a political football" out of the issue.

According to SPLC, the 41-year-old Smith is a longtime racist activist with a criminal record. Keystone State Skinheads, the group he co-founded, is now known as Keystone United.

While its members attempt to project a mediagenic image of being part of a new breed of more sophisticated and less spasmodically violent skins, the truth is that the group’s members have been convicted of a string of remarkably violent attacks dating back to at least 1998, ranging from bar brawls to murder. Keystone United frequently sponsors white-power picnics and music festivals across Pennsylvania, including the annual "hatecore" event known as "Uprise."

In March 2003, Smith and two other members of the Keystone State Skinheads were arrested in Scranton, Pa., for allegedly beating a black man with stones and chunks of pavement. Smith pleaded guilty to terrorist threats and ethnic intimidation and received a 60-day sentence and probation, according to the SPLC.

Smith told WNEP-TV on Monday that he is no longer a member of the Keystone State Skinheads and denies being a racist. Asked why he left the group, Smith said, “Just because of the name 'skinhead.' People get a knee-jerk reaction from it and they think of movies like ‘American History X’ and think we are a bunch of violent thugs and people don’t listen to you as much, so that’s why I got away from that.”

Smith told the Times Leader he is currently the director of the local chapter of the European American Action Coalition, which describes itself as an advocacy group for white Americans.

He said he was surprised by the media attention his election is getting. "This is not a powerful position. I don’t know why everyone is getting their panties in a bunch,” Smith told the newspaper.

Msnbc.com could not immediately locate Smith by telephone for comment and the European American Action Coalition did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.

As a GOP county committee member, Smith’s main responsibilities include making sure he has poll watchers at his voting precinct and organizing door-to-door campaign strategies, Casey said.

The county GOP chief said that as much as other committee members want to distance themselves from Smith, their hands are tied for now by committee bylaws.

“The feedback from my constituents has been very loud and clear: They do not want anyone who espouses these hateful viewpoints to be involved in the governance of our party,” Casey said.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...election-to-pennsylvania-county-gop-seat?lite

 

[Sean]

LMAO.

Luzerne County GOP officials accused state Democrats of trying to "create a political football" out of the issue.

No shit? It's a fucking gift. How many people think the GOP would ignore a registered Democrat winning office if it turned out he was a member of the Communist Party?

 

[RoryN]

How many people think the GOP would ignore a registered Democrat winning office if it turned out he was a member of the Communist Party?

I'd love to see someone try and deny this.

 

[lovecraft68]

If you have ever spent time in parts of Pennsylvania this would not surprise you.

There is some heavy duty racism out there. I went out there for a wedding last summer and if I had a dollar for every time I heard the word Nigger I'd be retired.

 

[aqwertyuiop]

Almost as bad as the election of Shelia Jackson.

 

[bronzeage]

What does the Republican Committee of Luzerne County, Pa. actually do?

 

[Wrong Element]

Omg Somebody Bring Up Robert Byrd Quick Quick

 

[RoryN]

C'mon, GB right-fringe. Stand up for your hero!

Here's the first one:

Almost as bad as the election of Shelia Jackson.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?p=36358872&highlight=nigger#post36358872

Maybe all blacks should be banned, and not just because of their generally low level of education and sub-par intelligence.

 

[Peregrinator]

If you have ever spent time in parts of Pennsylvania this would not surprise you.

There is some heavy duty racism out there. I went out there for a wedding last summer and if I had a dollar for every time I heard the word Nigger I'd be retired.

You mean "Pennsyltucky," dontcha?

 

[busybody..]

could be worse

the DUMZ could elect a MUSLIM


OH!

WAIT

 

[IrezumiKiss]

If you have ever spent time in parts of Pennsylvania this would not surprise you.

There is some heavy duty racism out there. I went out there for a wedding last summer and if I had a dollar for every time I heard the word Nigger I'd be retired.

Think they feel the same way about Hispanics as you do?

 

[RoryN]

Think they feel the same way about Hispanics as you do?

http://thedailyintruder.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ashton1.jpg

 

[Wok]

Mechablade wondered why Ron Paul will never win. That forum is one reason.

Ron Paul stuff all over the place in that shit hole.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Keystone State Skinheads. Much violence and many arrests in their brief history.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I think an office so unimportant that someone can win it with a single vote might need to be eliminated.

 

[bronzeage]

I think an office so unimportant that someone can win it with a single vote might need to be eliminated.

It's one of those jobs that goes to whoever will do it.

 

[Sean Renaud]

It's one of those jobs that goes to whoever will do it.

I gotta find out what the local version of that is.

 

[bronzeage]

I gotta find out what the local version of that is.

It has all the political clout of a condominium owners association president.

 

[Type_O_Negative]

No shit !! SeanH is running?

What does Obama,Farrakahn,Rev Wright,Sharpton and Jackson think about this?

Better yet what does the black Panthers think about this?

 

[busybody..]

Hey NIGGER RORY, look who teh DUMZ have running in NY

Where is your thread

 

[busybody..]

The Left is About to Nominate a Racist, a Black Panther and a Jew Hater to NY’s 8th District



Weekly Standard -

New York City councilman Charles Barron may be on his way to winning the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s Eighth District, despite a history of racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel rhetoric. Barron, who has earned the support of retiring congressman Edolphus Towns, would be representing a district with a sizable Jewish population.



Jews “only make up 20 percent of the population, but they’ve always walked these streets as if they owned them, and acted as if they are the only ones in the community that matter.”

Barron has also called into question the legitimate existence of Israel. “Where should we start [the discussion]?” he said at a Brooklyn church in 2010. “Should we start with the 1906 Zionist Convention, or in 1914, with the Balfour Declaration? With Menachem Begin, the terrorists, all the wars, you want to discuss Israel becoming a state in 1948 when it should not have? Who are the terrorists?”

Barron joined former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on a Viva Palestine convoy to undermine the Israeli blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, which he has compared to a “concentration death camp.”

He has called for training teachers in Ebonics. He has labeled housing development “a new wave of Jim Crowism.”

At a 2002 rally in support of reparations for slavery, he said: “I want to go up to the closest white person and say, ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.”

 

[busybody..]

surprise, NIGGER RORY is AWOL

 

[busybody..]

NIGGER RORY is silent

(save us teh BS of a manufactured thread)

ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES: The Hill: Gadhafi is hero to NY House candidate.



Charles Barron calls Robert Mugabe and Moammar Gadhafi his “heroes.” He compared Israel’s government to the Nazis, says he won’t salute the American flag, and once offered that he wanted to “slap” the nearest white person.

And come January, he could be central Brooklyn’s newest congressman, if voters here give him an upset victory in the Democratic primary on June 26.

Barron, a longtime New York City Councilman, is running for the congressional seat being vacated by the retiring Rep. Edolphus Towns (D), a 30-year House veteran whom Barron tried to unseat in 2006 and again earlier this year.

 

[richard_daily]

b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but.... s-s-s-s-s-s-omeone ELSE...

Standard shenanigans from the party of "personal responsibility".

 

[busybody..]

Stfu, niggerloser