Congressman Andy Harris is not only a White Nationalist but a raging Anti-Semite as well.
Met with Far-Right activist Chuck Johnson.
Johnson is a Holocaust denier, believes Muslims are “genetically different in their propensity for violence or rape” and linked to stories about how African-Americans “possessed a ‘violence’ gene.”
Please read about it here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna959931
Andy Harris is a collaborator with Hungarian Dictator Viktor Orbán.
Harris has helped Orbán erode democracy, seize power, and is a personal friend. Orbán is also famous for promoting anti-Semitic imagery around Hungary, claiming that “powerful Jewish financiers are scheming to control the world.” He also is revising history trying to “sanitize” the record of Hungarian participation in the ghettoization and deportation of the country’s Jews to concentration camps during WWII. During this period, Hungary was an ally of the Nazis.
Read about Harris’ collaboration with Orbán here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/danrodricks.com/2020/05/03/rep-andy-harris-embraces-hungarys-dictator-while-chiding-marylands-governor-over-loss-of-freedoms-in-health-emergency-strange-guy/amp/
Read about Orbán’s anti-Semitic views here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-anti-semitism-problem-hungary-jews/amp/
Attempted to secretly meet with the leader of the Czech Nazi Party (Svoboda a přímá demokracie) Tomio Okamura.
What is so bad about this party? Well, Party Secretary Jaroslav Staník called for the gassing of “Jews, gays, and Roma.” The party leader Tomio has called on the Czech people to walk pigs and dogs in Muslim neighborhoods and mosques and ban on Islam. You read that correctly; Andy Harris tried to meet with a political party that wants to do a modern-day holocaust.
Read about Andy Harris planned meeting with a political party calling for the mass murder of Jews, Romas, and members of the LGBTQ community here: https://www.stardem.com/print/lettereditor/harris-planned-to-meet-with-right-wing-czech-extremist/article_f68ac53f-7027-5d17-b2cb-9b36347e8c54.html
Defended Trump’s tweet where he accused several congresswomen of color of not being born in America and suggesting “they go back and help fix the broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
Read that here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/15/politics/andy-harris-donald-trump-race/index.html
Conclusion
The first time he met with or attempted to meet with an Anti-Semite/White Nationalist, there was at least some believe that maybe Harris’ and his staff were just incompetent and didn’t know how to vet people before taking meetings. However, there is case after case of Andy Harris openly seeking meetings with these extremists. There is no reason not to the belief he holds these anti-American and anti-Eastern Shore views himself. You know how the saying goes if there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.
A Plead to local Republicans in MD-01
In November, we got to get him out, and local republicans need to look themselves in the mirror and decide if this is who they are. If not, vote against him this election. This district is +14 Republican. You will easily win the seat back in 2022 with a more moderate candidate, and there isn’t much we could do. So how about it? Can we replace this anti-Semite, and you take two years to rethink things?
Written By Jared Schablein
Chair, LSPC
