“The Illinois Republican Party and our country have no place for Nazis like Arthur Jones,” the Illinois Republican Party chairman, Tim Schneider, said in a statement. Besides Mr. Jones himself, few say he stands a chance of winning the general election in November. Mr. Pitcavage said Mr. Jones “has been around forever.”He was a far-right student activist at the University of Wisconsin, where he said he edited a conservative newspaper and attended meetings of the Young Republicans and a National Socialist group. (Mr. Jones received about 5,000 votes in the nonpartisan primary, finishing fourth.) He has previously run for the Republican nomination in the Third District in 1998, 2006, 2008, 2012 and 2016.

Source: International New York Times February 07, 2018 13:49 UTC