RACIST NY CONG. CANDIDATE SUES FOR BEING CALLED RACIST: POSES WITH BLACK PEOPLE, AS DAMNING VIDEO SURFACES

We simply had a video up for a few hours, but we have something to beef this item up with now. Apparently Jim Russell does not like being called a racist, especially while he is running for Congress. He didn’t like how a Village Voice reporter actually saw him at a white supremacist rally in NJ, didn’t like how people found his racist writings, and probably won’t like a video comes up showing him going on national television to proclaim that “Every group in America stands for its own. Its about time we did too.” So, Russell is trying to fight back via litigation against those who have talked about it publicly. He also is posing with more people of color these days, although that’s not what concerns us. The NY State Insurance Fund handles workman’s comp and disability benefits – and he is working there as a case manager. Russell is on his way to political obscurity. The Republicans will never nominate him for anything again – although they don’t get a pass for doing it all these years. Him handling the cases of men and women looking for help after being injured on the job is a bit of a concern. So don’t think that this election ends it all for Russell. There’s more explaining to do after Nov. 2. The video is after the jump.

Gothamist

Westchester Republican Jim Russell didn’t take too kindly to some of the phrases and words that were bandied about when his writings on race and religion were uncovered and publicized by the media a couple weeks ago. He wasn’t happy when a save-face interview went very badly. And he wasn’t happy that one reporter alleged that she saw him at a white supremacist rally in 2007. So he decided to sue.

Russell is seeking $9 million in damages, $1 million from the nine people named in the lawsuit, which includes several journalists and Republican politicians. He claims they smeared his name and undermined his candidacy in the press and on television. “We will not tolerate this. We will not tolerate political correctness being imposed upon us,” he said at a press conference in White Plains. Russell lost the Republican nomination for 18th Congressional District because of his writings, which appeared in The Occidental Quarterly, a journal classified as a hate group, in 2001; much of the reportage around the scholarly paper depicted Russell as racist. Politico said his writings, “have frowned on inter-racial marriage and movies like “Save the Last Dance,” touted the benefits of studies linking race to IQ and said parents need to teach their kids “appropriate ethnic boundaries” for marriage and socializing.”

The people named in the lawsuit are Journal News columnist Phil Reisman, reporter Leah Rae and political cartoonist Matt Davies; John Goff of News 12, Richard French of RNN, Justin Elliott of Salon.com, Douglas Colety of the Westchester Republican Party, Alexander Carey of the state Republican Party and Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Back in February 2003, Jared Taylor of American Renaissance stopped by the revamped evening version of the Donahue Show to talk about how his psychosis of him being better than everyone that isn’t white. Sitting in the studio audience – in the same row and Peter Brimelow and DLJ is Jim Russell, who is now running for Congress against Nina Lowey in New York. Unfortunately for him, his fellow Republicans are now running from him because he has been exposed as a white supremacist activist. There are several writings and the fact that he is on the editorial board of the Occidental Quarterly, and lest we forget, the fact that a Village Voice reporter saw him at a white supremacist meeting in Elmwood Park, NJ, at the meeting place we had a hand in exposing along with other antifa. What hasn’t surfaced – until now – is his appearance on that Donahue vs. Jared Taylor program. He shows up at 1:43 in the video.