The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Chester Doles, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi National Alliance, is running for office as a Republican in Georgia.
Doles, who spent decades in the KKK, including as Maryland's Grand Klaliff, filed paperwork earlier this year to run for a spot on the Lumpkin County Board of Commissioners in 2022, the paper reported.
The 61-year-old running for a local county commission office in a deeply conservative district has a chequered past. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Doles had been to prison.
He was sentenced to four years in prison in 1993 for his involvement in the beating of a Black man in Maryland. He spent four years in prison after being arrested on federal firearms charges.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Doles was arrested on assault charges.
The paper said that Doles was linked to the Hammerskins.
The Washington Post reported that he was with the group at the Unite the Right rally.
Doles said he was a fourth-generation Klansman. He blames his past actions on youthful indiscretions, and he now denounces racism.
He said that his politics are in line with the rest of the Republicans.
Doles is described as an "ardent supporter" of Trump by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In December 2020, he was pictured with a senator. She didn't know who he was.
December 13, 2020 is the date of theBend the Arc: Jewish Action.
Insider reached out to Doles but did not get a response.
