TOM METZGER IS GOING TO RUN FOR CONGRESS AGAIN

Let’s face it. Tom Metzger has nothing else to do with his time. A generation ago, he was good for making some noise here and there with his White Aryan Resistance, and idiots looking to throw their lives away went to him in droves. Democrats in the San Diego area gave him a congressional primary win back in 1980, proving that both major parties have issues. Boneheads even killed for him, and although a crew of his associates killing an Ethiopian immigrant didn’t get him any jail time, it is costing him $12 million after the Southern Poverty Law Center came down on him with a lawsuit making him liable for the murder. Today, he is a shell of what he once was. His white power contemporaries have either died, went to jail, on their way there or just gone on with their lives. His son John, once upon a time a prominent figure along with Tom, hasn’t been heard from in years. And he moved out of his longtime home in Fallbrook, CA to Warsaw, Indiana where he is originally from. So now that he is in the twilight of his years, he is now looking at a run for the congressional seat of Mark Souder, who is already has a few teabaggers pushing for his seat. Now it is not likely Metzger will win, although given the results when he did this before, we aren’t ready to say that definitively. Still given all the calamities of what he calls his life, which culminated a few years ago with a documentary showing him drunk off his ass and singing blues in karoke bars, this shot at a congressional seat promises to be more entertaining than a concern.

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WARSAW, Ind.. – He’s led the Ku Klux Klan , and founded his own white supremacist group. Now, Tom Metzger wants to add “congressman” to his controversial resume. The Warsaw, Indiana native is campaigning for the Third District Congressional seat held by Mark Souder .

“You got to have radical, independent people, going for power, that’s what you need,” said Tom Metzger. “I’m not running saying I got to win, I’m running saying I want change.”

The 71-year-old former KKK Grand Dragon and founder of the White Aryan Resistance has launched a campaign as a write-in candidate. He advertised his candidacy with a small ad in the Warsaw-Times Union Newspaper. It urged people frustrated with “the Republicrats” to “send them a real message.” The seven-line ad concluded with “Write in Thomas L. Metzger for Souder’s job, 3rd District.”

“I ran the ad for a week and I might bring some hillbilly bands into town to get the campaign going,” Metzger told NewsChannel 15. “They can call me any name they want, but I’m going to tell the truth.”

Metzger touts himself as pro-union and the candidate for the working class. He tells NewsChannel 15 that he is ready to shake up Washington.

He says, “I’d go to Washington and get into Congress and have a fist fight ever day. I don’t think there’s anybody gonna say the controversial things that I’m going to say about let’s get out of these (expletive) wars and rebuild our infrastructure. Let’s keep our money in Indiana and tell the federal government to go to hell.”

Metzger is no stranger to politics. In 1980, he actually won the Democratic Party’s nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in San Diego. He later lost in the general election to the Republican incumbent.

In 1982, he received three percent of the vote during a United States Senate run in the Democratic Party Primary.

“I have a long history of politics, all the way back to ’64 with Barry Goldwater,” Metzger said. “I’ve been involved with more politics than any of these guys have ever been in.”

Metzger knows his chances of winning the race are slim, but he hopes to at least make a statement.

He says,”You never know, it might be an accident, and I might win. I’m pretty well known, and I’ll make sure I’m known even more before it’s over…I know politics.”

Congressman Souder’s office declined to comment on this story.