Post by nikonoclast on Apr 19, 2024 14:07:30 GMT -5
www.riverfronttimes.com/news/racist-churchs-leader-helps-vet-gop-candidates-in-missouris-vernon-county-42329668
Several candidates for public office, four of them incumbents, are facing removal from the ballot.
The Republican county committee accuses them of refusing to be "vetted" before filing as a candidate.
That involves, among other things, submitting a "morals survey", and all financial records, for review.
"Depending on how a court case shakes out, anyone hoping to run as a Republican in one Missouri county
may first need to submit to vetting by members of a far-right church known for its ties to the white identity movement ...
" ... within the ranks of the Vernon County Republican Committee are several members of the Church of Israel,
an organization based in Schell City that has been labeled an extremist group by the Anti-Defamation League.
According to the ADL, the church's founder and head pastor Dan Gayman, now in his 80s, has long been a
thought leader of the Christian Identity movement and helped popularize what is called the two seedline theory,
an influential belief in that extremist sphere that contends Jews are the cursed offspring born from a union between
the Biblical Eve and the devil.
It's unclear how many members of the county committee that vets candidates are members of the Church of Israel.
Multiple Vernon County residents say that Haggard ( county chairman ) has refused to disclose the identities of everyone
on the committee. She would not provide a list to the RFT either, and would only say that there are more Church of Israel
members on the committee than just Gayman. Gayman's daughter is on the ballot for the upcoming committee race,
as are two others who appear to be his relatives. "
"St. Louis attorney Mark McCloskey is representing Haggard and the pro-vetting crowd in their lawsuit against County Clerk Adrienne Lee,
who put the eight unvetted candidates on the ballot despite Haggard and Co. deeming them insufficiently pure."
Remember McClosky? The gun-waving idiot? Same guy.
