{"id":3717,"date":"2014-07-08T16:25:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2014-07-31T11:47:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:47:07","slug":"gop-nominates-bircher-secessionist-in-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3717","title":{"rendered":"GOP Nominates Bircher Secessionist in AA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final primary vote tally reveals that Anne Arundel County Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/anne-arundel\/severna-park\/bs-md-ar-county-council-outcome-20140707,0,2444831.story\">voted narrowly to nominate Michael Peroutka<\/a> over Maureen Carr-York in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AA-Districts.jpg\">District 2<\/a>. Peroutka beat Carr-York by 38 votes in this usually Republican district.<\/p>\n<p>Peroutka serves on the Board of the League of the South&#8211;a neo-Confederate &#8220;southern nationalist&#8221; organization that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-report\/browse-all-issues\/2014\/summer\/Electoral-Extremism\">wants to reverse the results of the Civil War<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/dixienet.org\/\">front page of its website<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the South is going to survive, especially against a flood tide of massive Third World immigration and leftist attempts to destroy her very cultural and political foundations, she is going to have to seek her independence and govern herself<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the South secedes, can we ask them to take Peroutka? I wonder how his secessionist agenda will play in Anne Arundel.<\/p>\n<p>Peroutka also finds the time to be active in the extremist John Birch Society. Apparently, he believes that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-report\/browse-all-issues\/2014\/summer\/Electoral-Extremism\">gay rights movement will lead to &#8220;forced homosexuality.&#8221;<\/a> Anne Arundel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.state.md.us\/elections\/2012\/results\/general\/gen_detail_qresults_2012_4_0006S-.html\">voted for for marriage equality<\/a> by 13000 votes in 2012. Is this guy a candidate for office or a contestant on Delusional Family Feud?<\/p>\n<p>Good news for those who worried that Anne Arundel&#8217;s quotient of crazy might decline with incumbent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacounty.org\/Elections\/GEMS%20OFFICIAL%20ELECTION%20SUMMARY%20REPORT%20070714.pdf\">Del. Don Dwyer&#8217;s sixth place finish in the GOP primary<\/a> for one of two seats in District 31B. Meagan Simonaire, the daughter of the senator who represents the same district, won the nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final primary vote tally reveals that Anne Arundel County Republicans voted narrowly to nominate Michael Peroutka over Maureen Carr-York in District 2. Peroutka beat Carr-York by 38 votes in this usually Republican district. Peroutka serves on the Board of the League of the South&#8211;a neo-Confederate &#8220;southern nationalist&#8221; organization that wants to reverse the results &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP Nominates Bircher Secessionist in AA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1499,967],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-arundel","tag-don-dwyer","tag-michael-peroutka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-XX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}