METALHEAD WHITE SUPREMACIST LAST SEEN AT CPAC RUNS FOR OFFICE VIA MATT HEIMBACH'S NEW POLITICAL PARTY

There is absolutely NO way we could have made the headline shorter and still capture the WTF of it all! Left to right, Mathew Heimbach, Scott Hess and former drummer for The Paramedic (not to be confused with Call the Paramedics) Tony Hovater, who we met at CPAC with his friend New Carlisle Councilman Ethan Reynolds.

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NEW CARLISLE, OHIO–In an interview with Al Jazeera America, White supremacist Matthew Heimbach says that he has launched a new political party, and a candidate that party is endorsing for a City Council seat here is the former drummer of a popular metal band and also attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with a City Councilman who is a supporter of the fascist UK Independence Party (UKIP).

Top pic: Tony Hovater, second from right, with the Paramedic. Bottom pic: Tony Hovater, right, at CPAC 2015 with New Carlisle Councilman Ethan Reynolds, center, and Ted Beust, left.

According to the article, Heimbach’s new Traditional Workers’ Party is fielding Tony Hovater as a candidate for City Council in November. Noted as Heimbach’s “friend and party comrade”, Hovater, 27, was the onetime drummer for the Paramedic, the Dayton, Ohio-based metalcore band, leaving in 2012. While the band itself has no outward evidence of political leanings, let alone right-wing or racist affiliations, Hovater, in support of his old lead singer Mike Luciano in the wake of a Facebook rant that included taking shots at Olympic Gold Medalist Caitlyn Jenner, posted a video of Luciano defending himself from the Alternative Press article that takes issue with the post.

Hovater’s Facebook page boasts right-wing/racist leanings with support shown for anti-immigration groups in Australia, and White supremacists such as Heimbach, American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor and Kevin MacDonald of American Freedom Party appearing on his friends’ list. Earlier this year, he attended CPAC with New Carlisle City Councilman Ethan Reynolds, 24, who was himself seen at the National Press Club just outside the room where the White supremacist National Policy Institute was holding a conference where others attending CPAC participated. Reynolds, who in a recent Tweet expressed his love for UKIP and its leader Nigel Farage, has denied he was there for the NPI conference.

Heimbach, the Traditional Youth Network founder who has only recently moved to the Cincinnati area from Indiana and is mulling over a run for the Ohio State Legislature in 2016, looks at New Carlisle as being adversely affected by immigration and bad government. “Blue-collar white workers and white poor people don’t have anyone to speak for them, and right now they are being screwed by the system,” Heimbach said. “Our platform is bringing any troops not involved in humanitarian aid back home and spending the money on infrastructure projects. We want to train a new workforce. Americans need work right now, and fixing that includes shutting down all immigration. Whether you’re from Switzerland or Guadalajara, there needs to be a full and complete moratorium on immigration for at least 25 years.”  

As of this posting there is no online presence for the Traditional Worker’s Party and no official announcement of Hovater’s candidacy has been announced, save for the mention in the Al Jazeera article.