A Missouri judge on Friday ruled that former “honorary” Ku Klux Klan member Darrell Leon McClanahan III can remain on the Republican gubernatorial primary ballot, squashing the state GOP’s effort to pretend that the racist asshole doesn’t represent their party, NBC News reports
Judge Cotton Walker wrote the state GOP did “not present to the Court any evidence that having McClanahan on a primary election ballot would cause it any injury. McClanahan’s presence on the primary election ballot is not necessarily an endorsement of the candidate by the party.”