Holocaust Denier Poised To Win Ill. Congressional GOP Primary

LYONS, IL -- Perennial candidate and Illinois white supremacist Art Jones doesn’t want to be known as just a Holocaust denier, but as a viable Republican candidate in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. The semi-retired insurance salesman from Lyons, who has been known to organize family-friendly birthday parties for Adolf Hitler — is poised to win the upcoming GOP primary by default.

Unless the Illinois Republican Party can get him thrown off the primary ballot like they did two years ago, or names another GOP candidate at a later date, Jones stands a reasonable chance of facing the winner of the tightening Democratic congressional primary between the incumbent Congressman Dan Lipinski and challenger Marie Newman.

A participant in the Illinois Nazis’ march on Marquette Park in 1978, Jones said in a 2012 interview with Patch that he usually votes Republican “90 percent of the time.” He also called the Holocaust an “international extortion racket by the Jews” and the “blackest lie in history.”

“There’s a lot of controversial stuff about my past and I’m not trying to hide anything,” Jones says of his National Socialist roots. “I’m proud of my past.”

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In 2016, Jones started off running for U.S. Senator Mark Kirk’s seat in Republican primary, but shifted his focus midstream to Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District when he saw that Lipinski was running unopposed in the Democratic primary. After Jones turned in 108 more signatures than were required on his filing petitions, Chicago attorney John Fogarty Jr., general counsel for the Illinois Republican Party, filed 401 objections to Jones’ signatures.

"He said I had people who lived outside the district, unregistered voters, forged signatures, all dirty rotten lies,” Jones said, who got tossed for “flagrant disregard of the election code.”

Fogarty alleged that Jones turned in photocopied signatures, but attributed it more to gross negligence “beyond what a reasonable person would do."

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This time Jones, a four-time loser in Illinois 3rd Congressional District who’s also lost mayoral primaries in Chicago and Milwaukee (he claims he got more votes as a National Socialist candidate than the Republican who ran), isn’t taking any chances.

“When I went door to door getting all my signatures, I started in September and ended on Dec. 3, the day before I had to turn them in,” Jones says of his door-to-door canvassing. “Every single time I asked people what they thought about the Middle East, every single one agreed that the United States needed to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, except for one person who supported all this nonsense going on there.”

Jones, who endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, says he stands with the president on building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, the Muslim ban, and throwing people living in the U.S. illegally out of the country — except for one small thing: Trump’s daughter Ivanka’s conversion to Judaism after marrying a man of the Jewish faith.

“That’s where Trump and I part company,” Jones said. “I was hoping Trump with his influence and because of his wealth that he could overcome the Jew influence. Unfortunately, his son-in-law [Jared Kushner] has roped Trump into his pro-Israeli policies on the Middle East.”

In a speech given last year in Kentucky, Jones says he denounced the “punk Kushner,” who he claims is drawing the United States into an unwinnable war with Iran.

“What does this punk know about the Middle East?” Jones said. “If you want to be fair and objective to the Palestinians, you don’t put in your Orthodox Jewish son-in-law to represent the United States. Send him to represent America in Brazil or Columbia. The Palestinians aren’t fools.”

With white supremacists and neo-Nazis becoming more emboldened this past year, Jones has become more in demand as a speaker at alt-right conferences and rallies. He says he was invited to give a speech at last summer’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, when university students and other “leftist scum” were clashing with the peacefully protesting white nationalists. Due to an illness, he wasn’t able to attend.

“I had a friend from Blue Island who went, who said [the white nationalists] had a permit to march in the park,” Jones said. “No sooner than they got to the park [the evening before the rally] than the police came and said it was an unlawful assembly. They were ordered to leave and were accosted by leftists standing on the streets throwing balloons filled with urine and feces and red paint. They were forced to fight right in the middle of the street while police stood there and let the damn brawl go on.”

As for the 20-year-old Ohio man accused of driving into a crowd the next day, killing a woman, Jones claimed the man was being attacked in his car by leftists.

“It’s a dirty damn rotten lie. The news media is not to be trusted, I call it the ‘Jews media,’” Jones said. “It was a total accident. He’s from Ohio. He doesn’t know the streets of Virginia.”

Jones wants voters to check out his Art Jones for Congressman in Illinois website to see where he stands on the issues instead of focusing on this “Holocaust nonsense.”

“I’m not running for Chancellor of Germany,” Jones said. “Go to my website. Americans are struggling paycheck to paycheck by paying a religious tax to rabbis everytime they go to the supermarket and buy products with the Kosher label. It’s a scam. The government doesn’t have the guts to take on the Jewish lobby like I have. We need people in Congress who deal with the truth as it is like me. If the Puerto Ricans had this kind of power, I’d be talking about them.”

Photo: Art Jones delivers a pro-Trump speech at a 2016 Harrisburg, PA, rally. | Courtesy of Art Jones for Illinois Congressman website