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Home Front: Politix
California GOP congressional candidate runs as open Holocaust denier
2018-07-07
[The Hill] A Republican candidate for Congress in California is openly running as a Holocaust denier, calling it a "complete fabrication" in an interview with The New York Times published Friday.

John Fitzgerald secured one of the top two spots in California's "jungle" primary system last month, where the top two vote-getters regardless of party affiliation advance to the general election.

Fitzgerald is slated to face off against incumbent Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier in November in the reliably blue district near San Francisco.

Fitzgerald included calls on his campaign website for people to note "Jewish supremacism" and said last week on a radio show hosted by an anti-Semitic commentator that "everything we’ve been told about the Holocaust is a lie," according to The Times.

The candidate told The Times this week that the Holocaust was a "complete fabrication" and placed blame for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the Israeli government.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  This is what happens when the party "pragmatically" chooses not to put in at least a placeholder candidate.

Then again, the Dems have lots of loons running for office who are getting either no scrutiny or tongue baths ala Allie from the block.
Posted by: charger   2018-07-07 12:27  

#8  The candidate for Missouri senator died. The state supreme court let the election stand with him on the ballot and the party gave it to his wife. Thus making a total mockery of the electoral process. It's all a facade to keep the peasants in place.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-07-07 11:19  

#7  GOP has no chance winning a seat in San Francisco. Stalin has a better chance and he's dead.
Posted by: ruprecht   2018-07-07 11:12  

#6  Do they even exist anymore?

As a front to take money, much like the so-called "conservative journals and think-tanks."

Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-07-07 10:56  

#5  The California GOP - LMAO. Do they even exist anymore?
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2018-07-07 10:37  

#4  Getting a can't win candidate to run in an otherwise uncontested district means money will have to be spent that can't be spent elsewhere. All the same, the party officials at every level are there to prevent this sort of debacle, but they often don't.

Story in that somewhere...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-07-07 09:10  

#3  Ask Feinstein whether she supports him, or is she too busy banning Catholics to answer?
Posted by: Frank G   2018-07-07 07:50  

#2  So, how did the Dems managed to get him to win the primaries?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-07-07 04:12  

#1  I blame the waters. It's got to be something in the waters.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-07-07 03:59  

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