Tennessee Democrats Accidentally Nominate Hate Group Member For Senate

Oops. Mark Clayton, Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, is affiliated with Public Advocate USA. Turns out they’ve been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And now the Tennessee Democratic Party is urging its members to write in a candidate.

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The Tennessee Democratic Party has disavowed its candidate for U.S. Senate, according to a statement released today.

“The only time that Clayton has voted in a Democratic primary was when he was voting for himself. Many Democrats in Tennessee knew nothing about any of the candidates in the race, so they voted for the person at the top of the ticket. Unfortunately, none of the other Democratic candidates were able to run the race needed to gain statewide visibility or support.


Mark Clayton is associated with a known hate group in Washington, D.C., and the Tennessee Democratic Party disavows his candidacy, will not do anything to promote or support him in any way, and urges Democrats to write-in a candidate of their choice in November.”

The hate group in question is Public Advocate USA, and apparently Clayton is its vice president. The group has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Here’s a list of the causes the group has “strong and vocal opposition” to, according to its website:

- Same sex marriage and the furtherance of so-called “Gay Rights”;


- The National Endowment of the Arts or taxpayer supported art and the federal funding and endorsement of pornography and obscenity as legitimate forms of art from any agency;


- The mainstream media’s promotion and glorification of drug abuse, teenage sex, gangs, atheism, homosexuality and other immoral behavior and beliefs;


- The passage of hate crimes and thought control legislation that creates inequality in our state and federal legal systems and singles out Christians or moral thinking people for persecution, fines, and harrassment by the government at any level;


- “Pro-choice” or abortion strengthening legislation that upholds or expands the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973;


- The creation of special classes of Americans at the expense of the traditional American family.

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    • xlynx 9 months ago

      Did anyone else read what he was in opposition to and think he registered for the wrong party? He might win as a Republican — he’s against the same things as most the Republicans in the south. I guess even Democratic nominees in the south are more like Republicans than the Republicans in the rest of the country.

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    • jessicaaubreyj 9 months ago

      I wish for a short period of time (at least) that Tennessee could get it’s name in news articles and such for good things we do. Living in TN I am so very aware of our reputation, and it is not always good.  NOTICE: I did not vote for this guy

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    • VR 9 months ago

      Umm why is this guy a Democrat? His platform is the same as the GOP’s.

    • xtasywastasty 9 months ago

      i would seriously vote based on that list, except for the racist shit that’s stupid.

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    • christinabyrons 9 months ago

      They voted for whoever was at the top the ticket? O.o WTF Tennessee?

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    • Benjamin Sapiens 9 months ago

      So, basically, the Tennessee Democrats accidentally nominated a conservative Republican to run for them? I thought you were supposed to vet your candidates, or, at the very least, check to see if their political views are even remotely similar to those of your party?

    • DCDawg 9 months ago

      Where is the author’s evidence that this was an accident? It was a seven-way primary, and Clayton received a plurality of the votes cast without getting close to a majority. The candidates’ vote totals do not descend or show any other discernible pattern when the candidates’ names are placed in alphabetical order, so where is the author’s evidence that he won solely because his name was first on the ballot?

    • DanjaZone 9 months ago

      His eyes are so hate-filled.

    • rukis 9 months ago

      Their only purpose is to oppose people who don’t agree with their beliefs. They don’t try to do anything positive, they exist only to spread intolerance. This is what makes them a hate group. I’d like to know more about the federally funded pornography they mentioned :)

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    • harrisonfritz 9 months ago

      Do democrats just call every group with opposing ideology “hate” groups?

    • Dorsey Shaw 9 months ago

      OH, THE SOUTH.

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