Democrat candidate
denies the Holocaust

Larry Darby

A Democrat candidate in Alabama who denies the Holocaust occurred and seeks to "reawaken white racial awareness" is causing problems for state party leaders.

Larry Darby, running for attorney general, believes fewer than 140,000 Jews died in Europe during World War II and contends most of them were afflicted with typhus, the Associated Press reported.

The candidate, head of the Atheist Law Center, says the commonly held number of 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

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The AP said Darby is scheduled to speak Saturday in New Jersey at a meeting of National Vanguard, a group that considers itself an advocate for white people.

"It's time to stop pushing down the white man," Darby told the AP. "We've been discriminated against too long."

Darby ran unsuccessfully for the attorney general post in 2002 as a Libertarian, but his racial views largely were unknown at the time.

Now, despite no campaign advertising funds and just a handful of speeches, he is favored by 12 percent of registered voters, according to a recent poll on the June 6 primary.

The survey showed Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson leading with 21 percent of the vote.

As many as two-thirds of respondents, however, said they were undecided.

Darby's candidacy is being investigated by the state Democratic Party, which says it backs free speech rights of candidates but recognizes there are limits.

Joe Turnham, the Alabama party chairman, told the AP some of Darby's views appear to be in "a realm of thought that is unacceptable."

"Any type of hatred toward groups of people, especially for political gain, is completely unacceptable in the Alabama Democratic Party," said Turnham.

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The AP said the party could decide to not certify the votes if Darby were to win.

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