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Posted on 03/29/2006 9:33:11 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
A white supremacist who once was the subject of a nationwide manhunt has filed suit to be listed on the August 8 primary ballot as a Democrat after the party refused his candidacy to run against Republican Roy Blunt in Missouri's 7th Congressional District.
The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Secretary of State Robin Carnahan of keeping Frazier Glenn Miller off the primary ballot as part of an "unconstitutional policy to exclude people who espouse pro-White racial viewpoints."
The lawsuit asks the court to order Carnahan to place Miller's name on the Democratic ballot for the primary.
Democrats blasted Miller's effort to get on their ticket.
"We refuse to allow this white supremacist a platform to spew his racist and anti-Semitic views," state party spokesman Jack Cardetti said.
Before the March 28 filing deadline, state Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians all refused to allow Miller to run in the primary as one of their candidates, citing his racial views.
Miller still has the option of running in the November election as an independent, which would require him to collect about 6,000 signatures, or as a write-in candidate.
Miller, an Army veteran and retired truck driver, first filed March 6 as a Democrat with the secretary of state's office. His $100 filing fee was forwarded to the Missouri Democratic Party, which rejected the money, and the secretary of state's office said that meant he did not qualify to run on the Democratic ticket.
The state Libertarian party also returned his check and Republicans told Miller they would do the same.
"There needs to be a transfer of funds between the candidate and the political party. In this case that did not occur," said Stacie Temple, a spokeswoman for the secretary of state's office.
Miller argues that the state election law does not require the filing fee to be accepted by the political party. But Cardetti of the state Democrats said that is exactly what the law specifies, with the intent of giving parties discretion over who campaigns in a party's name.
The lawsuit also seeks unspecified damages for past and future "loss of self-esteem; humiliation; emotional injuries, damages and losses" and other pains allegedly caused by Carnahan's actions. Carnahan is the only defendant named in the lawsuit.
Miller, the former leader of the White Patriot Party, became the subject of a national manhunt in 1987, after he violated the terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary training camp.
The search ended after federal agents found Miller and three other men in an Ozark mobile home, which was filled with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Miller said he wants to run as a Democrat because Republicans support the war in Iraq, which he said he opposes, and because he agrees with many Democratic planks such as universal health care and union bargaining rights.
"I think the country has swung too far to pro-Republican, free enterprise, big business, that sort of thing," he said in a telephone interview from his home near Aurora, about 30 miles southwest of Springfield.
Miller said his chances were slim of getting the 6,000 signatures he would need to register as an independent. He claimed people were afraid to support what he called "pro-white viewpoints."
"I believe white people are supreme at building civilizations and maintaining law and order and peace," Miller said.
Democrat Party: Party of kooks.
The all-tolerant, all-inclusive dems. BWAHAHAHA!
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State parties are private organizations. They should, and can bar anyone they want to.
The flip side of that is that in the NY State Republican Party, one man decides who runs for any office in the state. None of them try to win, but as long as the Republican Party comes in second, the leadership has some jobs to dole out.
RINO heaven.
It's a small price to pay for the privlige(sp) of excluding Nazis.
LOL!
This guy fits right in with the plantation Democrats.
I wonder what their problem is?
OOPs! I thought this thread was about Robert KKK Byrd. Sorry! :)
Honkey power ! :-D
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DemocRATs don't seem to mind the old KKK kleagle from West Virginia, Robert Byrd, being associated with their party, what are we missing here?
Or Julian Bond, and head up the NAACP - he wouldn't have had a problem at all.
Did the Democrats change the rules since Robert (KKK) Byrd ran for office?
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