Georgia’s Brian Kemp was just busted holding campaign event with notorious white supremacist

Brian Kemp, the Republican Georgia Secretary of State running for governor against African-American Democrat Stacey Abrams, has already earned a reputation as a ballot-suppressing racist due to his purging of Black voters at a rate that far exceeds the percentage of white people removed from the state’s electorate in his interest-conflicted role as the supervisor of Georgia’s elections.

Kemp naturally denies all the underhanded behavior that has engendered the substantialrightful invective hurled his way, but his denials have been rendered all but worthless by his literal embrace of a notorious white supremacist who has plagued the internet with his calls for the murder of Black Lives Matter protestors.

Kemp not only allowed the openly racist James Stachowiak to broadcast his hate-filled propaganda on his Periscope channel from a Kemp campaign rally, he took a selfie with the deplorable Stachowiak, smiling and giving a thumbs up, while the bigoted malice-monger wore an anti-Muslim t-shirt.

You can tell the character of a person by the company they keep, and Kemp is telling us that his character is completely undeserving of any role in government whatsoever. Stachowiak is a former certified “peace officer” and public safety officer at the former Augusta State University who had his certification revoked after a misconduct investigation and who was arrested for falsely accusing a man of terrorism on social networking sites.

To give you an idea of just how repulsive a person Stachowiak is, here is a video he posted threatening Black Lives Matters protestors last year.

He has also been reported to show up at campaign rallies for Kemp’s opponent Stacey Abrams to disrupt them with racist slurs and violent threats.

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That a candidate for governor in Georgia in the 21st century not only openly associates themselves with neo-Nazi supporters like Stachowiak but actively embraces them tells you all you need to know about Kemp. Georgia voters need to do everything they can to elect Stacey Abrams, fight his campaign of voter suppression, and permanently remove him from the Georgia political landscape.

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Original reporting by Jason Johnson at The Root

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