Amid worries of Nazi sympathizers on the town council, Leith, North Dakota, moves to dissolve
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
June 21, 2018
Ryan Lenz
In response to the election of two town council members suspected to maintain associations with neo-Nazi Craig Cobb, officials in Leith, North Dakota, are moving forward with plans to dissolve the town government.
Leith Mayor Ryan Schock collected enough signatures for a petition for dissolution 12 in total in a town that counts only several dozen as permanent residents. On Wednesday, Schock brought the petition to the Grant County Commission, which set a July 23 special election for the town to make a final decision, The Bismark Tribune reported.
"Hopefully, it will go away. Nobody can take over the city government without a government, Schock told the newspaper.
The two new town council members, Michael Bencz and Deby Nelson, who live together, were elected with 10 and nine write-in votes respectively. While Bencz has denied he shares ideological sympathies with Cobb, town officials have noted that he bought a Leith property from Cobb and arrived shortly after Cobb announced on a racist message board his plans to turn Leith in to a white supremacist enclave in 2013.
Read more: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/21/amid-worries-nazi-sympathizers-town-council-leith-north-dakota-moves-dissolve
truthisfreedom
(23,157 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)The picture just screams master raceto me.
47of74
(18,470 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,538 posts)Cobb, who tried to have his white supremacist buddies take over the town, eventually discovered he was "tainted" after he got results from a DNA test, and was himself targeted by his "own" racist scum.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)which, iirc, ran on PBS.
BumRushDaShow
(129,538 posts)to see if someone does a special free re-airing.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)Check their website. Looks like it's on youtube as well.
BumRushDaShow
(129,538 posts)and they link to pay sites to see the whole thing. But will put it on my "to watch" list.
IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)and isn't as "pure" as he'd like to believe