White supremacist far behind in Idaho sheriff race

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

White supremacist far behind in Idaho sheriff race
By Laura Zuckerman | Reuters – 8 hrs ago.

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A white supremacist who ran a long-shot campaign for sheriff in Idaho was trailing far behind his incumbent opponent late on Tuesday, according to early returns in the three-way race for the Republican nomination.

Shaun Winkler, an avowed Ku Klux Klan member and convicted batterer, had received only 40 votes in northern Idaho's Bonner County, versus 1,072 votes for incumbent Sheriff Daryl Wheeler, with 10 of 33 precincts reporting.

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Winkler, 33, attracted national attention for a campaign that culminated earlier this month with a cross burning on his northern Idaho property near Priest River and a pledge to crack down on sexual predators and illegal drugs.

Winkler's supremacist sentiments, in which he has derided Jews and African-Americans, have sparked outrage in the Idaho Panhandle, where local leaders and human rights activists have struggled to shake off decades-old stereotypes of the area where the late Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler sought to establish a "white homeland." Winkler was one of Butler's trusted aides.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/white-supremacist-far-behind-idaho-sheriff-race-063130782.html

[Woody Woodpecker]

1. And how is this news?

The less we hear about this shite, the better.

[notadmblnd]

4. why?

I think people should be told what all these bigoted Neanderthals are up to. Why should any of them be allowed to keep their dirty nasty selves and their dirty nasty deeds secret?

[Judi Lynn]

2. Shaun Winkler, White Supremacist Idaho Sheriff Candidate, Hosts Cross Burning Event

Shaun Winkler, White Supremacist Idaho Sheriff Candidate, Hosts Cross Burning Event
The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 05/10/2012 12:20 pm Updated: 05/10/2012 5:08 pm



Shaun Winkler, a white supremacist in Idaho running as a Republican for Bonner County sheriff, is defending his recent cross burning ceremony, after having invited members of the media to attend the event last week.

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Winkler is one of the remaining members of a diminished, but still active, Aryan Nations presence in Idaho. Democratic state Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb, the first black woman to serve in Idaho's state legislature, faced numerous racist attacks from the KKK and other white supremacist groups during her campaign.

Brenda Hammond of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force says Winkler's political presence is an embarrassment to the rest of the county.

"It shows the need for the human rights task force has not gone away," she told the Associated Press. "Many of us on the task force have really regretted Bonner County's reputation for harboring racism when the vast majority of us don't think like that."

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/shaun-winkler-idaho-cross-burning_n_1506357.html

[freshwest]

3. It's news since they're in all states, this one just ran for office. Getting 40 votes is disturbing.