'FORMER' LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH MEMBER WINS COUNTY COUNCIL SEAT IN MARYLAND

We should have known that with the wave election the GOP had, this would happen. Next time you hear them say that the Democratic Party is the party of the KKK, throw this in their face – and let’s start watching this guy.

One People’s Project

In the midst of all the Election Day victories for the Republican Party across the country, atorney and former Constitution Party presidential candidate Michael Peroutka who was a onetime member of the white supremacist and secessionist League of the South (LOS), has made regular associations with others within white supremacist circles, and has stated that civil rights laws have no merit because “there’s no such thing as a civil right”, has won his bid for a seat on the Council of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the third wealthiest county in the nation.

Peroutka, who switched to the Republican Party only in January, defeated his Democratic opponent Patrick Armstong with 53 percent of Tuesday’s vote to win his new seat in traditionaly conservative District 5. His win also allows Republicans to maintain control of the County Council with a 4-3 majority over Democrats

Peroutka’s candidacy has drawn attention because of his membership in the League of the South, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center, which lists the organization as a hate group, notes their beliefs that its opposition to interracial marriage and it’s leaders defense of slavery as God-ordained and segregation as necessary to racial integrity of both blacks and whites. Peroutka himself is seen in a video circulated online asking the crowd to stand for the national anthem then proceeding to play “Dixie” Several Republicans distanced themselves from Peroutka during his campaign.  

”I didn’t do it to bring up any political points,”he told the Baltimore Sun. “I don’t have any problem with the organization.

Republicans won big on Election Day, taking over the Senate and most of the nation’s governorships, including in Maryland, where Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, a black man, was defeated by Lawrence J. Hogan, who in July was among those Republicans who distanced himself from Perotuka.