ILLINOIS: Republicans Miss Deadline To Field US House Candidate In Opposition To Avowed Nazi Arthur Jones

Politico reports:

Illinois Republicans botched four opportunities to stop an avowed Nazi from representing their party in a Chicago-area congressional district. Now they’re paying the price. Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier who will appear on the November ballot as the GOP candidate against Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski, has become campaign fodder for Democrats as they seek to defeat Gov. Bruce Rauner. And some Republicans even fear the taint from Jones‘ extremist views poses a threat to the party up and down the ticket.

Running a third-party candidate against Jones in November was among the options left to Illinois Republicans after Jones clinched the GOP nomination by running unopposed. But the deadline came and went this week and that didn’t happen either.

Jones, who told POLITICO he’s running to counter a “two-party, Jew-party, queer-party system,” laughed when he was informed the GOP was unable to put up a candidate against him. “They didn’t put up a third-party candidate?” Jones asked when reached by phone Thursday. “That’s great! That’s fantastic!

RELATED: For what it’s worth, Lipinski is no prize either as he was the only House Democrat to cosponsor the so-called First Amendment Defense Act, which would legalize anti-LGBT discrimination nationwide. That was in 2015 and while FADA has not yet been reintroduced in the House, the 2018 Senate version by potential SCOTUS nominee Mike Lee currently has 22 cosponsors.