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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Mar 19, 2022, 02:23 PM Mar 2022

Former KKK Leader Plans to Run for Commissioner of a Georgia County as a White Civil Rights Activist

Chester Doles, 61, was once known as the Grand Klaliff of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Maryland and made a plethora of media appearances to share his racist ideologies. But now, the man who once spent time in prison for beating a Black man is running for public office as a GOP. He wants to be known as a “white civil rights activist,” according to CBS 46.

Doles has been to prison twice, in 1993 he was convicted of beating a Black man in Maryland and served for years in prison. In 2003 he was convicted of weapons violations in Georgia and spent four years in federal prison.

But how is Doles still able to run for public office?

According to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, convicted felons can run for and hold public office in Georgia if at least 10 years have passed since they completed their prison term and if they get their civil rights restored.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/former-kkk-leader-plans-run-130000195.html

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Former KKK Leader Plans to Run for Commissioner of a Georgia County as a White Civil Rights Activist (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP
Another GA county that went 80% for trump in 2020. Hoyt Mar 2022 #1
Again... UncleTomsEvilBrother Mar 2022 #2
2. Again...
Sat Mar 19, 2022, 02:44 PM
Mar 2022

...this would not happen anywhere else where members of a terrorist organization could run for public office. Then again, that terrorist organization is allowed to exist.


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