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This is just too juicy not to share. A Republican running for City Council of Charlotte, N.C. is exposed by another Republican on the City Council. Why? Oh baby, you can't make stuff up this despicable. If this were a paperback novel, the cover would be dripping with Spanish moss, a hulky, sweaty specimen of Southern manhood wrapped in the Confederate flag front and center. With glistening legs wrapped around a flagpole, an adoring bleached blond bombshell reaches out to stroke his homemade rifle held at attention in his brawny hands. In the background, Lady Liberty wrinkles her nose, a look of "What the....?" on her face. Read on.
From the
Charlotte Observer August 5, 2005 by Richard Rubin:
CANDIDATE: I'M NOT RACIST
Republican candidate Doug Hanks said Thursday that he will exit the Charlotte City Council race, after his postings on a white supremacist Internet site became public.
In more than 4,000 posts on stormfront.org, Hanks railed against blacks and Jews, touted his instruction book on building a homemade rifle and recruited people to rally against Charlotte's decision to remove the Confederate flag from Elmwood Cemetery.
Hanks told the Observer Thursday that he is not a racist, though he admitted playing one on the Internet.
This clown made news back in January when he scaled a flagpole in an historic cemetery and reattached a Confederate flag after the city had taken it down following much public debate. They had to take down the whole pole just to keep the poseur at bay. He has gone to great lengths to downplay the truly hateful character of his posts, characterizing them as merely the work of a true thespian. He claims to be an actor and an author doing research, however I know of no Method that could inspire any actor to pull this kind of savage sewage out of thin air and post it 4,000 times:
I treat a rabid dog differently from a healthy one. In fact,this gives me a terrific idea! Let's treat all the Blacks like the rabid beasts they are.'Yeller, Here Boy!'
This just proves the point that anyone can run for any office in America: the good, the bad, and the ugly. I just wish the odds for the former were as good as the latter . It makes me long for Barney to put his bullet in his gun and chase that critter back up that pole.