Can't believe this is for real. This nutjob is actually going to win a Congress seat? I guess that's what happens when more people know the head football coach, Phil Fulmer, than the names of the congressmen on the ballot. BTW, Robert Byrd is a former KKK member. Not sure what his stance today is though.
Mango promised he wouldn't win. He's just a momentary embarrassment to the GOP and the people of Tennessee
I don't think he's going to win. He' running against a 15 year incumbant. Byrd has renounced his past, something Thurmond would never do.
I don't know how many people have ever participated in local political party activities. Generally speaking, they aren't the most well-organized affairs, especially in small districts that are in the stranglehold of the other party. And it is difficult to find people willing to become a candidate in a losing cause election. The national and state parties ignore you, and you end up spending time, money and effort on something you know is a waste of time. And the Party can't stop anybody from running under their party banner. A candidate files with the county to stand in the primary election. If there's no one against them in the primary, they win and are on the ballot for November, running under the Party's name even if the Party if openly and actively against that candidate. So you oftentimes end up with fringe candidates, some of whom are embarrassing to the Party. I expect that the Republicans didn't anticipate anyone running for the seat from the Republican side and were surprised when someone filed (there's no Democrat running in my Congressional District, for example).
In Texas, your party is only listed on the ballot if they won above a certain percentage of the vote in the last Gubernatorial election. Or, the Party can deliver a certain number of signatures and be on the ballot statewide. Otherwise, if you get on the ballot, it'll just be as an independent in general. And you have to prove you're a Democrat or Republican by winning their primary election. If you don't win the Republican Primary, you won't appear on the November ballot as a Republican (well, you won't appear on the November ballot at all in that case, but a person can't just say they're a Republican and be on the ballot as such in the general election). The rules are different in some other states, though.
John Tanner was the congressman in Fahrenheit 9/11 who Moore asked to send his children to Iraq and he said his son is married with 2 kids blah blah.
He won the primary and will "probably" attend the GOP ZConvention... _________________ Believer in 'eugenics' wins congressional primary in Tennessee MEMPHIS, Tenn. An openly racist candidate is the winner in a Tennessee congressional primary. James Hart, a believer in the discredited, phony science of eugenics, has handily defeated write-in opponent Dennis Bertrand in the Republican primary for the Eighth Congressional District. Most of the votes have been counted and Hart has a big lead. The 60-year-old doesn't expect to defeat Democratic Congressman John Tanner, who's represented the district for 15 years. But he says he wants to get out his message -- that people from what he calls "less favored races" should be discouraged from reproducing or immigrating to the U-S. His explanation of "less favored races" includes people on welfare and those from "sub-Saharan" African countries. Hart says the Republican Party would like him to go away -- but he'll probably go to the G-O-P convention. http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=2140555&ClientType=Printable
Isn't eugenics the science of improvement through selective breeding? I am not sure how discredited it is, considering the premium placed on studs in horse racing. I doubt that an extensive, well-run eugenics program has ever existed for man (the closest was probably breeding slaves?), and so there is probably not enough data to say that the science has been discredited. I don't agree with the man's stance that "less favored races" should not be allowed to breed (dude sounds like a Nazi, not a Republican), but looking at Yao Ming and his parents, it certainly seems like you can breed for certain traits.
I believe that the practice of "eugenics" in our country was not the selective breeding of excellent genetic examples, but was governments sterilizing people who they did not believe should breed, such as the mentally handicapped as well as people they suspected of having mental illnesses. I wouldn't have any problem with selective breeding to produce better humans (provided the subjects were amenable to such), but "eugenics" in this country was something VASTLY different.
the "lady" who started planned parenthood had some rather unpleasant things to say, along these lines. very scary stuff.
I remember seeing a 60 Minutes or Dateline or some such news program on the "eugenics" experiments in the US in the 1950s. Very frightening stuff. They just went in to "sanitariums" (as they were known in those days) and sterilized every patient. Did the same at homes for the mentally handicapped, too. They even went so far as to get parents to sign their children up for sterilization.
This is from a Christianity Today article...not sure what you think of that source, but these are quotes attributed to her. One is from a book she wrote, so i presume it would be easy to counter this assertion, if untrue. http://www.ctlibrary.com/8909 In her book, The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger complained that governments have not managed "to restrain, either by force or persuasion, the moron and the imbecile from producing his large family of feeble-minded offspring." Particularly disturbing to many pro-life African Americans is Sanger's involvement in the Negro Project. Devised more than 60 years ago to promote sterilization and birth control among blacks, the Negro Project focused on training black ministers and doctors to take Sanger's message into minority neighborhoods. In an ambiguously worded letter to colleague Clarence Gamble dated December 10, 1939, Sanger wrote: "The minister's work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Latest News: For Immediate Release Contact: Bob Davis 8/7/2004 615-329-9595 REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP URGES VOTERS TO REJECT 8th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CANDIDATE The Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee passed a strongly worded resolution today calling on voters to oppose congressional candidate James Hart. Hart, a candidate in the 8th congressional district, has expressed support for a concept he calls "favored races." The resolution called Hart's views "abhorrent and outrageous" and urged all Republicans and Tennesseans to reject his candidacy. http://www.tngop.org/News/index.asp
