Former Pa. skinhead wins GOP post with single vote
Source: AP
June 5, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Former Pa. skinhead wins GOP post with single vote
By Michael Rubinkam
Associated Press
A northeastern Pennsylvania man with longstanding ties to white supremacist groups entered a polling place on primary election day and wrote in his name for a low-level position with the local Republican Party committee.
Steve Smith wound up getting elected with a single vote his own and now presents a headache for a GOP that doesn't want him but might not be able to get rid of him.
Pennsylvania Democrats spread word last week of his April election, linking to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center that described Smith's associations with "an extraordinary array of white nationalist, skinhead, and neo-Nazi groups," including a group formerly known as the Keystone State Skinheads.
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THIS is the GOP's "big tent."
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Turbineguy
(37,355 posts)deserves him.
Judi Lynn
(160,555 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)are these paid positions? it's giving me ideas...
poor republicans getting stuck with a RADICAL.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)the skinheads are becoming the *moderate* wing
Blue Owl
(50,445 posts)I'm sure the Rmoney campaign is thrilled to have this skinhead in their tent! LOL...
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Because at least he's up front about his racist views; whereas, most GOP politicians try to mask their racist, homophobic views even though they vote against bills that would help minorities and LGBT community.
Doesn't mean I agree with the guy - I'd rather the GOP just come out and say it -" we have a hatred/fear for anyone not white and straight like me."
april
(1,148 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)He is exactly what they all are, under the hoods.
These Keystone State Skinheads dudes used to roll 100+ deep and swarm everyone at Allentown HC shows.
To try to keep them out some promoters put together a photo file and people would go into shows one by one through two sets of doors. They were stopped after the first door and if they matched up to one of the WN dudes on file they were not allowed through the second door.
Bozita
(26,955 posts)Please!
Behind the Aegis
(53,962 posts)Just goes to show, that people need to remember to spell things out because not everyone has the same knowledge of abbreviations and, in some cases, there could be multiple meanings.
wingzeroday
(189 posts)Alphabet soup!
HC= Hardcore music...HC/punk rock
WN= white nationalist/racist dudes
The more I look at theses dudes they may have come together as a group after the timeframe I was talking about..but probably some of the same people from the 90's.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)but they probably have similar ideals