Wow.Still can't beleive congress allows people like this to maintain power.
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Racist to contest US congress seat
August 6, 2004 - 4:44PM, http://www.smh.com.au
An unabashed racist will represent the Republican party in a Tennessee district in the November election for a congressional seat after another candidate failed to derail his effort.
With 86 per cent of the primary vote counted, candidate Dennis Bertrand had just 1,554 votes compared to 7,671, or 83 per cent, for James L Hart, a believer in the discredited, phony science of eugenics.
In November, the Republican candidate will oppose John Tanner, a Democrat who has represented the northwest Tennessee district for 15 years.
Hart, 60, vows that if elected he will work toward keeping "less favoured races" from reproducing or immigrating to the United States.
In campaign literature, Hart contends that "poverty genes" threaten to turn the United States into "one big Detroit", a city with a large African-American population.
He has run for the Eighth District seat before and drawn little attention. But people began to notice this time because he was the only Republican on the ballot.
While campaigning, Hart sometimes wears a protective vest and carries a pistol, but he said he has run into no trouble.
"When I knock on a door and say white children deserve the same rights as everybody else, the enthusiastic response is truly amazing," he said.
If a black person opened the door, he simply dropped off campaign literature and left, Hart said.
© 2004 AP
Wow.Still can't beleive congress allows people like this to maintain power.
Socialism for a better future.
