Holocaust denier poised to claim GOP nomination in Illinois race for 3rd Congressional District

[sunonmars]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/holocaust-denier-arthur-jones-republican-3rd-congressional-district-lipinski-newman/

Arthur Jones — an outspoken Holocaust denier, activist anti-Semite and white supremacist — is poised to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat representing parts of Chicago and nearby suburbs.

“Well first of all, I’m running for Congress not the chancellor of Germany. All right. To me the Holocaust is what I said it is: It’s an international extortion racket,” Jones told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Indeed, Jones’ website for his latest congressional run includes a section titled “The ‘Holocaust Racket’” where he calls the genocide carried out by the German Nazi regime and collaborators in other nations “the biggest blackest lie in history.”

Jones, 70, a retired insurance agent who lives in suburban Lyons, has unsuccessfully run for elected offices in the Chicago area and Milwaukee since the 1970s.

He ran for Milwaukee mayor in 1976 and 13th Ward alderman on Chicago’s Southwest Side in 1987.

Since the 1990s to 2016, Jones has jumped in the GOP 3rd Congressional District primary seven times, never even close to becoming a viable contender.

The outcome will be different for Jones in the Illinois primary on March 20, 2018.

To Jones’ own amazement, he is the only one on the Republican ballot.

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This is the state of the GOP today.......he'd never win this deep blue district but we should do all we can to wrap this nazi muppet round the GOP necks and make him a poster boy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Ugh, he is truly abhorrent.

I think we should make a NATIONAL example of him and hang him around the necks of all Republicans, starting with tRump.

[struggle4progress]

2. Holocaust denier set for Republican nomination (Newsweek)

BY JASON SILVERSTEIN ON 2/4/18 AT 4:45 PM

He’s a Holocaust denier, he’s a white supremacist, and he’s set to get the Republican nomination for a major congressional seat in Illinois ... after emerging as the only GOP candidate for a congressional spot representing parts of Chicago and its suburbs.

... His campaign website features a page called “Holocaust?” that includes a typed note calling the murder of six million Jews by Nazis "the biggest, blackest, lie in history" ... The website also features a page calling the Confederate flag "a symbol of White pride and White resistance" ...

Jones’ campaign includes the slogan, "It’s time to put America First!," likely referencing .. Trump's "America First" campaign. Trump's slogan itself is taken from the America First Committee, an anti-Semitic .. group from World War II ...

http://www.newsweek.com/holocaust-denier-republican-nomination-illinois-congress-race-799222

[chuckstevens]

3. Dems pick up a seat?

[sunonmars]

4. hardly its a huge dem district already but we are going to hang this poster boy round the GOP necks.

[chuckstevens]

7. Got it! Thanks!

[Tatiana]

5. Thank goodness, IL is in recovery and this POS has no chance of winning.

But this is the state of our national discourse that such a cretin feels perfectly comfortable publicly espousing such abhorrent views.

If the Party of Russia had principles, they would feel some sense of shame and make sure to clearly repudiate these beliefs. But they don't have any.

[Dirty Socialist]

6. I fucking hate Illinois Nazis

I hope he jumps off a bridge