I've lived in several states over the years, but AZ takes the proverbial cake when it comes to the casual, ho-hum acceptance of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other dangerous political extremists as a part of everyday life. These rabid, right-wing reactionaries rear their foaming pit-bull mugs with alarming regularity in Sand Land, and for the most part, folks just respond with a collective shrug.
Take the events of January 19 in Tempe, where the Maricopa County Republican Party hosted its "mandatory meeting" and elected a new chairman, Tom Husband, who replaced outgoing county chairman Lyle Tuttle. At this MCRP assembly, Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready distributed several racist and Holocaust-denying tracts, leaving copies on the seats of attendees for them to pick up.
See, turd-Reicher Ready was enjoying the privileges of membership. J.T. Ready became a Republican precinct committeeman in 2006, running unopposed for this unpaid, yeoman's rank in the GOP, and winning a slot with 36 votes. Ready was elected from precinct 529, also known as Mesa 67. There were two slots open for Republicans, but Ready was the only one on the ballot in that primary.
If someone at the local GOP had been paying attention, they could have kept the Valley's most infamous National Socialist agitator from infiltrating Republican ranks. As it was, neither the county nor the state GOP knew about Ready's rise until I told them. To his credit, Sean McCaffrey, executive director of the AZ Republicans, had an intermediary ask J.T. to step aside. Predictably, the gargantuan goosestepper told 'em to go fly a Nazi kite.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2008/02/twoton_turdreicher_jt_ready_di.php.......and from the Southern Poverty Law Center.....
White Nationalist Distributes Holocaust Denial Tracts At Republican Party Meeting
Phoenix New Times
Published on February 16, 2008
J.T. Ready, a self-avowed white nationalist as well as a GOP precinct committeeman, distributed Holocaust denial tracts and racist pamphlets at a mandatory meeting of the Maricopa County Republican Party.
<...> J.T. Ready became a
Republican precinct committeeman in 2006, running unopposed for this unpaid, yeoman's rank in the GOP, and winning a slot with 36 votes...
If someone at the local GOP had been paying attention, they could have kept the Valley's most infamous National Socialist agitator from infiltrating Republican ranks...
The county convention was held at a local Christian church. But that didn't stop Ready, who openly attended a neo-Nazi rally last year in Omaha, NE and who keeps an active page on the white supremacist networking site Newsaxon.org, from passing out such anti-Semitic filth as the essay "Simple Arithmetic," which posits that "The mass-murder of six-million Jews...is a myth."
He also distributed a blatantly bigoted tract copied from Stormfront.org, a white power message board run by Ron Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, titled "What is racism?" In it, the author asks, "If blacks, for example are equal to whites in every way, what accounts for their poverty, criminality and dissipation? <...>
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/hatewatch/item.jsp?hid=1496
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