Tell Luzerne County GOP to Disavow its Racist Committeeman

This week the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that Steve Smith, a longtime racist activist with a history of violence and top-level ties to numerous white nationalist hate groups, was elected to the Luzerne County (PA) Republican Committee. To date, the GOP has not condemned his views or tried to distance itself from him in any way.

Recruited into the neo-Nazi movement while he was stationed at Fort Bragg in the 1990s, Smith, of Pittston, Penn., has been active in an extraordinary array of white nationalist, skinhead, and neo-Nazi groups, including American Third Position, Keystone United(formerly Keystone State Skinheads), and the Council of Conservative Citizens. He is a former Aryan Nations member and former leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of White People.

While the GOP may not be able to legally remove him, if they don't support his racist views, they should tell the world that they find his views repugnant.