IL-03: Republicans nominate Holocaust denier to challenge Lipinksi
Jones, whom the GOP has denounced as a Nazi and who has a section on his campaign website devoted to denying the Holocaust, was unopposed in the primary and won the Republican nomination to represent the Illinois 3rd District in Congress.
Maybe some of the 13,158 suburban Cook County residents who voted for Jones strongly believe in freedom of speech and Jones' right to express his views.
Perhaps some of the 3,023 voters in Chicago who punched his ticket agree with his positions on immigration ("no more sanctuary cities!"
or his support of 2nd Amendment rights ("concealed carry for personal protection!" .
I suppose it's possible some of the 4,093 people in Will County who cast ballots for Jones did so knowing about his anti-Semitic views but supported him anyway because of his stances against abortion and same-sex marriage.
More likely, the 65 DuPage County residents who voted for Jones, 70, didn't know about his former membership in the American Nazi Party or that he ran for mayor of Milwaukee as a member of the National Socialist White People's Party in 1976.
Jones, however, told me Wednesday he believes the votes for him were no accident.
"The people who voted for me knew exactly who I was," Jones said. "They liked what I had to say."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-primary-election-recap-st-0322-20180321-story.html
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