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A longshot Missouri gubernatorial candidat e with ties to the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the Republican ticket, a judge ruled Friday.

Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker denied a request by the Missouri GOP to kick Darrell McClanahan out of the August Republican primary.

McClanahan is running against Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, state Sen. Bill Eigel and others for the GOP nomination to replace Gov. Mike Parson, who is barred by term limits from seeking reelection.

McClanahan’s lawyer, Dave Roland, said the ruling ensures that party leaders do not have “almost unlimited discretion to choose who’s going to be allowed on a primary ballot.”

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[-] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

The KKK member's name is "McClanahan?" The writers of this show are so lazy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't you know? They're progressives now. They welcome Catholics as long as they're also white racists!

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

The judge's name who kept him on the ballot is Cotton Walker.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, Republicans. You made this bed, you have to lie in it. If a Klansman gets enough signatures to get on your party's primary ballot, what does that suggest about your party's members?

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago

I think I already know the answer and I think it’s because doing so would expose tons already in power, and even more in the past.

But, why hasn’t the KKK been labeled a terrorist organization in the US?

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 60 points 2 weeks ago

Those who work forces, are the same that burn crosses

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites.

[-] quindraco@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

You can be on a primary ballot while in prison, serving time for a terrorism conviction. Criminality just isn't relevant.

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

But you could only win doing so as a Republican.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago

They aren’t enemies of the state. Groups are classed as terrorists when they are using violence and terror to attack a nation state government, or its interests. The KKK don’t challenge the state in this way, they terrorise people and they support violence. But they don’t define themselves or act as enemies to the state.

I think they should be classed as hate groups and possibly terrorists. They do use terror to try to enact social change. The social change they want is more of a regression than a revolution, so it can be easy for conservatives to sympathise with them. Conservatives make up half the political power in most countries so it’s hard to classify these types of groups as terrorists. These groups advocate for conservation of social norms, just the norms they want to preserve are oppression and lack of civil rights.

[-] fsr1967@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

With open ties to the KKK. The others are smart enough to keep theirs hidden.

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

It is a campaign strategy to distinguish him from the crowd of closeted KKK also rans.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I visited Missouri once. I get why people call it Misery now

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

KKK clan

Did they find him for interview at the ATM machine?

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wait they spell clan with a k? Lol

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes lol, "Ku Klux Klan." As to why, your guess is as good as mine, not even sure they know anymore, that secret may have died with the first klan.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Good. Hopefully AG Asshat will have to spend more money to keep the racists from splitting the vote and he will have less for the general election (or not even get through the primary).

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