A neo-Nazi and a racist both wound up last in their respective races in last week’s Democratic primary bid for the governorship and a seat in the state legislature.
Eugene Knox of Shamokin, known for his vitriolic anti-Semitic attacks, received slightly more than 56.000 votes out of some 695,000 cast, to finish fourth in a field of four. Knox once took out ads in a Shamokin newspaper advocating that all Jews be moved to Montana.
Warren Smith, a member of the neo-Nazi National States Rights Party and a former Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan, drew fewer than 400 votes in his quest for a legislative seat from the Bucks County, near Reading, to finish last in a field of six.
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