Missouri Republican Party seeks to unseat candidate for governor; Claims Some Knew About His KKK Ties: ‘Hypocrites’

Man running for governor of Missouri, related to Ku Klux Klan that recently became public said state Republicans who’re currently working to take him out of the race were already aware of his beliefs.

“The Missouri GOP knew exactly who I was,” wrote Darrell McClanahan III at X. “What a bunch of anti-white hypocrites.”

McClanahan is one in every of the candidates running for the Republican nomination within the Missouri governor’s primary.

After Missouri GOP tweeted that 279 Republicans submitted their bids on the primary day of candidate filing, the formerly Republican state Rep. Shame on you Dogan responded with a pair of disturbing photos showing McClanahan with official KKK members, standing next to a hooded member making Nazi salutes in front of a burning cross.

Although McClanahan confirmed he was within the photos, he he said Riverfront Times that he was never a member of the KKK and sent the location an announcement saying that Dogan’s claim that he’s a “KKK member and white supremacist is false and damaging” to his status.

What’s bizarre about McClanahan’s allegations against Dogan, nonetheless, is that he once claimed in a lawsuit filed against the Anti-Defamation League that he was a “pro-white man, horseman, politician, political prisoner-activist committed to traditional practices.” Christian values” and for a 12 months he was an “honorary member” of the Ku Klux Klan Knight Party.

He also stated that he had participated in a “private religious identity cross lighting ceremony, falsely described as cross burning.”

A judge dismissed a lawsuit against ADL that McClanahan brought over an alleged defamatory article. The judge wrote that McClanahan’s statements about himself within the grievance reflect “the views attributed to him in the ADL article.”

The Missouri Republican Party tweeted Thursday that its officials “have been informed” that McClanahan has declared his candidacy “despite his ties to the Ku Klux Klan.”

The party said his affiliation “fundamentally contradicts” the party’s values ​​and program. McClanahan is currently within the technique of being faraway from the race.

“We condemn any association with hate groups and are taking immediate action to rectify this situation,” party officials wrote in X. “Our party upholds respect for all individuals and we are committed to confronting any questions related to these principles.”

McClanahan directly responded to the post, twice stating, “The Missouri GOP knew exactly who I was,” adding that Missouri GOP Chairman Nick Myers learned of McClanahan’s loyalty to Christian Identity Theology when McClanahan ran for U.S. Senate in 2022.

Myers had just told him then that he was not to “say anything bad about Jews.”

The Christian Identity Movement spreads the racist, anti-Semitic belief that whites, not Jews, are the true Israelites favored by God.

McClanahan was not a widely known candidate within the governor’s race. He can be against it Secretary of State Jay AshcroftLt. Gov. Mike Kehoe and state Sen. Bill Eigel, who’re vying to replace outgoing Gov. Mike Parsons.

McClanahan said Ashcroft once told him, “Black people are a problem.”

The Associated Press reports that in his run for the U.S. Senate, McClanahan lost the Republican primary, winning 0.2% of the vote.

McClanahan is not the only person with KKK ties running for governor.

David Duke, one in every of the more famous white supremacists and former Klan leader, held the office for a time. He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989 and nearly won the Louisiana governor’s race in 1991.