samedi 10 février 2018

I hate Illinois Nazis

Arthur J. Jones, 70, from Lyons, IL, a southwestern Chicago suburb, has been active since the 1970s in the National Socialist Workers People's Party, a.k.a. the American Nazi Party, and various other Neo-Nazi groups, according to the ADL. He is also a Holocaust denier, and openly so, on his campaign website (which I won't link to, but the link is right in his wiki lemma).

Last December, he handed in the 603 required signatures to become a Republican candidate for (the primaries for) the House election in the Illinois 3rd Congressional District. There were no other contenders, so, come November, he'll be the candidate on the NSGOP ticket for the House elections. Not that he'll have a chance at winning - the district is solidly Democratic.

The Republican party has disowned him, but they have been quite asleep at the wheel. It's far from the first time that Jones tried to run. Most recently, in 2016, the Illinois Republicans managed to scrub enough out-of-district signatures from Jones' petitions that his bid failed, according to the Chicago Sun Times. And then there was no other Republican candidate, so the Democratic candidate ran unopposed. Now, again, the local Republican party couldn't even care to find a warm body who would run against him, not even as a token effort to keep Jones off the ballot. The negligence is so breathtaking, it's almost as if they wanted this to happen.

The thing that I really don't understand is that the Republican party would be obliged to have this candidate run in their name. Say, you produce a cookie and sell it under the name "Oreo", then in no time Nabisco will sue you to stop it because you infringe on their trade mark. But as a political party you cannot stop people from (ab)using your name if you want to? That just doesn't compute.


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