(thanks to Craig Powell for the tip)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Right now, a candidate for Anne Arundel County Council is under fire for what appears to be his membership in a neo-confederate group that wants the south to secede from the rest of the U.S.
Democrats are calling on the Republican Party to denounce him….
He is a strong religious conservative and he’s even run for president before, but his membership in a group called the League of the South has drawn the most controversy.
Video shows Michael Peroutka being introduced at a League of the South conference. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls it a hate group that advocates the south’s secession to a separate nation run by white people.
“Uppermost of which is the desire to form a new southern republic,” the head of the League of the South, Dr. Michael Hill, said. Peroutka, who in published reports strongly denies he’s a white supremacist, won the Republican primary for an Anne Arundel County council seat — a conservative district representing Arnold and Severna Park.
Democrats say the Republican Party should denounce him.
“Silence is consent, and if Republicans do not make it crystal clear that he does not represent them, then I think they will pay a price come November,” said Carl Snowden, civil rights activist.
