White nationalist James Allsup is now an elected officer in the Republican Party of Washington state. Over the weekend, Allsup posted a Facebook photo showing a piece of paper confirming his election as the state GOP’s precinct committee officer for Precinct 129 in Whitman County, The Daily Beast first reported Tuesday. Allsup, who graduated from Washington State University in 2017, once served as chairman of the Washington College Republican Federation and was an adviser to the Students for Trump group on campus, according to his Facebook page. Videos on his YouTube page show that he marched in the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August and attended a free speech rally in Washington, D.C., last year that featured speakers including white nationalist leader Richard Spencer. Allsup is also aligned with Identity Evropa, an American group that has been labeled a white supremacist organization by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Source: Huffington Post June 05, 2018 20:15 UTC