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MILLINGTON, Tenn., March 8 (UPI) -- A GOP congressional candidate -- unwanted by the party -- has made it onto the ballot in Tennessee despite his racial positions including support of eugenics.
The Nashville Tennessean said a Republican Executive Committee meeting March 25 is set to vote on whether 62-year-old James L. Hart, who marched with Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, is a "bona fide Republican," or should be taken off the primary ballot.
Hart is running for a U.S. House of Representatives seat for the Eighth Congressional District of Tennessee, which includes Millington.
The newspaper said Hart won 8,227 votes in the 2004 GOP primary and went on to get 59,853 votes in the general election won by incumbent U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., who received 173,623 votes.
Hart said the effort to take him off the ballot is undemocratic.
Eugenics is a philosophy that advocates the improvement of the human race through genetic selection.
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