The Montgomery Advertiser: has exposed a Republican nominee for Civil Appeals Court (a position voted on by everyone in the state) for her ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Terri Willingham Thomas, a district judge in Cullman County, won the Republican nomination for the open Civil Appeals Court Place 2.
Today, the frontpage of the Montgomery Advertiser exposed her deep family ties with the Ku Klux Klan and other right-wing, extremist hate groups.
I know many of you assume that Alabama is the unabashedly racist, backwards state portrayed in television and film. But it's not. Alabama certainly has been on the wrong side of history, but Alabama has also led efforts to rectify those injustices.
Even at the height the segregationist fever, public association with the Ku Klux Klan was enough to end a political career. That's why it's so appalling that a Republican nominee for statewide office has close, familial connections with local leadership in the KKK.
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