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littlemissmartypants

(25,443 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2023, 12:21 PM Jan 2023

Republican staffer resigns from North Carolina legislature after white supremacist comments surface

Sarah K. Burris
January 26, 2023

The Charlotte Observer* is reporting that a policy staffer from the House Speaker's office has resigned after appearing on a "pro-white" radio show called "The Political Cesspool."

An anonymous tip with records was sent to reporters about staffer Carlton Huffman, who was working for North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore.

The show's website boasts an "unapologetically pro-White viewpoint" that aims "to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races.

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WRAL reported that Huffman was part of the Council of Conservative Citizens**, which is a pro-segregation group labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "a crudely white supremacist group" and "a modern reincarnation of the old White Citizens Councils, which were formed in the 1950s and 1960s to battle school desegregation in the South."

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More at the link.

https://www.rawstory.com/north-carolina-republican-comments/

* https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article271700827.html
**https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/council-conservative-citizens

He has quite an interesting Twitter account for anyone interested...
https://twitter.com/CarltonHuffman?t=FPFfcKywPDZmcUcSSASa4Q&s=09

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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