Racist Republican gets vote

An unabashed racist will represent the Republican party in the November election.

With 86% of the primary vote counted, write-in candidate Dennis Bertrand had just 1,554 votes compared to 7,671, or 83%, for James L Hart, a believer in the discredited, phony science of eugenics.

In November, the GOP candidate will oppose Republican John Tanner, a Democrat who has represented the northwest Tennessee district for 15 years.

Hart, 60, vows if elected to work toward keeping “less favoured races” from reproducing or immigrating to the United States. In campaign literature, Hart contends that “poverty genes” threaten to turn the United States into “one big Detroit”.