White separatist candidate soundly trounced in school board election

[Ediacara]

White separatist candidate soundly trounced in school board election

By GAIL SCHONTZLER, Chronicle Staff Writer

Bozeman voters turned out in large numbers in Tuesday's school election to deliver a resounding no to white separatist candidate Kevin McGuire.

Voters in the Bozeman elementary district re-elected incumbent Sara Garcia, who received 4,039 votes, and elected first-time candidate Gary Lusin, with 4,031 votes.

McGuire, 23, a recruiter for the National Alliance, received 157 votes, or 3.6 percent of the total. The National Alliance's vision of creating a whites-only society, cleansed of other races and of Jews, became the election's central issue.

More at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

[UCLA Dem]

1. ewwww. how did he get any votes?

[keithjx]

2. Hey I remember arguing (well disagreeing) with someone about this on DU

He claimed that in Montana, where so many white separatists run amok apparently, that this guy would get a lot of votes. He googled a few stories to support this assertion.

Glad to see he was wrong.
KJ

on edit:
Here's a link to the "discussion"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1430757

[warrens]

5. Bozeman is a relatively liberal college town

And frankly, Montana is Republican, not right wing lunatic. Now IDAHO and UTAH....

[Momgonepostal]

3. A bit alarming though, that 3.6% of voters...

support such an extreme agenda. Yikes

[keithjx]

4. Yep -

even 157 votes is too many....
KJ

[AlinPA]

6. I thought there were more republicans out there & McGuire would

do much better than that. Good for Montana.

[penicillin]

7. MT is full of Republicans

Just that they don't fit your stereo type of redneck white supremists/seperationalists!
Too bad he wasn't just a plain old separatist as in the "Free state Project", he would have won in a landslide.
http://www.freestatewyoming.org/ or here
http://www.freestateproject.org/

Libertarianism looking mighty good.

[havocmom]

9. Sir, we in MT would ask if you have ever spent much time here or do you

just believe everything you read while keeping a narrow scope on your google site?

For most of my lifetime, MT has gone slightly Dem. Oh, and most of the hardcore bigots I meet here are STILL from other places. For some reason they think they can come here and find kindred spirits. Mostly they are ignored by the locals.

[keithjx]

10. MT is full of republicans that

vote in a dem governor, vote FOR a medicinal marijuana act, pass a resolution through BOTH houses (w/ a crazy big majority) whipping the USA PATRIOT Act, and kicked the shit out of a mining corporation that wanted to start cyanide leach mining outside of Lincoln. Yep, we sure are full of those evil republicans.

Sheesh.
KJ

[tk2kewl]

8. The fact that he got any votes is appalling!

:puke: