Reputed white supremacist judicial candidate from La Canada featured on Huffington Post

Given that Bill Johnson, a Los Angeles County judicial candidate, has run for Congress twice before, it isn't surprising that the Huffington Post, national blog (and aspiring online newspaper), has picked up a story that has been floated in several local papers, including this one.

As mentioned in a story in our paper, Johnson, a Ron Paul fundraiser, is reputed to be the anonymous author behind a proposed constitutional amendment to limit American citizenship to white people of European descent.  The text of the amendment:

"No person shall be a citizen of the United States unless he is a non-Hispanic white of the European race, in whom there is no ascertainable trace of Negro blood, nor more than one-eighth Mongolian, Asian, Asia Minor, Middle Eastern, Semitic, Near Eastern, American Indian, Malay or other non-European or non-white blood, provided that Hispanic whites, defined as anyone with an Hispanic ancestor, may be citizens if, in addition to meeting the aforesaid ascertainable trace and percentage tests, they are in appearance indistinguishable from Americans whose ancestral home is in the British Isles or Northwestern Europe. Only citizens shall have the right and privilege to reside permanently in the United States."

Howie Klein, the Huffington Post blogger, raises concerns that Johnson's connections to dedicated Ron Paul activists could help bolster him in the June 3 election.  He may have a point: Johnson's campaign website has meet-ups with Ron Paul groups to help him spray paint "Bill Johnson for Judge" banners.  I have seen two of them hanging on fences this week, one in West Covina, and one in Pasadena.