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Congrats Tennessee GOP voters, y'all got yurselves a winner!
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Eugenics Backer Causes Stir in Tenn. Race
By AMBER McDOWELL
Associated Press Writer
August 3, 2004, 1:59 PM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Republican congressional candidate James L. Hart acknowledges that he is an "intellectual outlaw."
He is an unapologetic supporter of eugenics, the phony science that resulted in thousands of sterilizations in an attempt to purify the white race. He believes the country will look "like one big Detroit" if it doesn't eliminate welfare and immigration. He believes that if blacks were integrated centuries ago, the automobile never would have been invented.
He shows up at voters' homes wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a gun, and tells them that "white children deserve the same rights as everyone else."
Despite his radical views, Hart may end up winning the Republican nomination because he is the only GOP candidate on the ballot in Thursday's primary. His presence in the campaign has embarrassed Republican leaders, who were blind-sided by Hart after they didn't bother fielding a candidate. Democratic Rep. John Tanner has held the seat for 15 years and is considered safe in November.
Republicans now desperately hope that a write-in candidate will stop Hart.
"I would characterize him as a racist, an elitist," said write-in candidate Dennis Bertrand, a financial analyst and former military officer. "His idea of ... genetically altering the human race in order to build a super race with super intelligence is appalling."
Much of Hart's platform revolves around eugenics, which arose in the early 20th century as a pseudoscientific movement to solve social problems by preventing the "unfit" from having children. It inspired 33 states to pass laws that allowed the sterilization of some 65,000 people, and Nazi Germany used the U.S. examples to justify programs that sterilized and killed millions.
Hart, a 60-year-old real estate agent, knows his views on eugenics are far from the mainstream and viewed as racist by most people.
He insists his beliefs have nothing to do with racism and everything to do with "favored races" from Europe and Asia and "less-favored races" from Africa. To achieve his goal of a country populated by "favored races," Hart proposes eliminating both welfare and immigration.
"If an individual demonstrates the ability to produce and contribute to society, he or she would be encouraged to have more children. People on welfare would not," Hart said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Bertrand says he found out about Hart's views after returning from active duty with the National Guard and going on the Internet to learn more about the race in Tennessee's 8th District. He says he is running to make sure Hart does not win the Republican Party's endorsement.
"I was just appalled by what I'd seen there," said Bertrand, who has been active in local politics for years. "It had nothing to do with the beliefs I have, or of any Republican I know -- or any Democrat or independent for that matter."
Bertrand immediately was endorsed by the statewide grass-roots group TeamGOP, which called for Republicans to "unite against the politics of hate."
The 8th District covers the mostly rural counties of northwest Tennessee, stretching from north Memphis to Clarksville. Many of the counties have large black populations.
The two candidates continue to actively campaign for the nomination -- Bertrand visiting local GOP gatherings and Hart going door-to-door with his unorthodox, gun-toting approach.
"Every person who opens the door -- as long as they're white -- I'll say, 'I'm James Hart. I'm running for Congress. My name will be on the ballot in the Aug. 5 Republican primary. I think white children deserve the same rights as everyone else.'"
http://www.newsday.com/news/politic...itics-headlines |
Hey, don't be afraid! Just a little ethnic cleansin' here and there on his agenda, and everyone will be just dandy! |
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| PHALPAX |
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| LiquidX |
| Ha!!!.. reminds me of Trent Lott and his comments |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by LiquidX
Ha!!!.. reminds me of Trent Lott and his comments |
dude, whatever. you ever heard of Sen. Byrd?
this thread will have meaning if he gets elected. |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
dude, whatever. you ever heard of Sen. Byrd?
this thread will have meaning if he gets elected. |
Well he's in a pretty good position now, since he won his primary:
| quote: | Unabashed Racist Wins GOP Primary in Tenn.
WOODY BAIRD
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An unabashed racist will represent the Republican party in the November election for a congressional seat after a write-in candidate failed to derail his effort.
With 86 percent of the primary vote counted Thursday, write-in candidate Dennis Bertrand had just 1,554 votes compared to 7,671, or 83 percent, for James L. Hart, a believer in the discredited, phony science of eugenics.
In November, the GOP candidate will oppose Rep. John Tanner, a Democrat who has represented the northwest Tennessee district for 15 years.
Hart, 60, vows if elected to work toward keeping "less favored races" from reproducing or immigrating to the United States. In campaign literature, Hart contends that "poverty genes" threaten to turn the United States into "one big Detroit."
"I didn't expect to win," Hart said. "I thought their network would beat my ideas."
He has run for the 8th District seat before and drawn little attention. But people began to notice this time because he was the only Republican on the ballot.
Since the deadline for getting on the ballot had passed, Bertrand, also a Republican, began a write-in campaign, saying he wanted to protect the party's honor.
"I think his beliefs are not beliefs of any party that I know of," Bertrand said Thursday night. "I knew it was going to be a really long shot, but in good conscience, I had to at least give it an attempt."
Bertrand, a financial analyst and former military officer, was on active duty with the National Guard when the deadline to get on the primary ballot passed.
Hart said he will have lots of time to campaign for the general election since he was forced Wednesday to resign from his job as a real estate salesman because of the attention he drew during the primary.
"They didn't say 'You're fired' in exactly those words, but it was pretty clear what they wanted," Hart said.
While campaigning, Hart sometimes wears a protective vest and carries a .40-caliber pistol, but he said he has run into no trouble.
"When I knock on a door and say white children deserve the same rights as everybody else, the enthusiastic response is truly amazing," he said.
If a black person opens the door, he says he simply drops off campaign literature and leaves.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiheral.../printstory.jsp |
Woohoo! Go racist bastard, go!!! |
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| tupsox |
Robert Byrd and Fritz Hollings are relevent for comparison here, as long serving senators in the Democratic party.
I'd be surprised if this nutjob wins. If he does, indeed this thread has meaning. But did you notice the lines in the article saying that republican leaders are ashamed of this guy? |
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