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On Sunday, Frazier Glenn Miller went on a shooting rampage in suburban Kansas City, killing three people. The shootings were located at the Jewish Community Center and a retirement home. While all three victims were Christian, it appears that Miller’s motives centered around his racist and anti-Semitic beliefs. When apprehended, he was shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ and reports are that he was doing the same while shooting his victims.
Miller is a former leader of the White Patriot Party, a now-defunct white nationalist organization that sprung up from a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After serving prison time in the late-’80s, Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, moved to Aurora, Missouri. In subsequent years, he wrote a privately published autobiography, tried to stay involved with the white supremacist movement and ran a number of political campaigns. Mostly, it appeared that his political campaigns were just a way for him to get some media attention to espouse his racist views.
After Miller’s arrest for the recent shooting, a small-town mayor in Missouri got himself into some hot water due to comments he made defending Miller. Daniel Clevenger, mayor of Marionville, MO, spoke to a local news station about Miller and his relationship to him. While Clevenger did not defend Miller’s actions, he did state that he agreed with many of Miller’s beliefs.
Clevenger had the following to say to KSPR on Tuesday:
“Kind of agreed with him on some things, but I don’t like to express that too much…There some things that are going on in this country that are destroying us. We’ve got a false economy and it’s, some of those corporations are run by Jews because the names are there,” he said. “The fact that the Federal Reserve prints up phony money and freely hands it out, I think that’s completely wrong. The people that run the Federal Reserve, they’re Jewish.”
It was also revealed that about a decade ago, Clevenger wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper, the Aurora Advertiser. In the letter, he not only defended Miller and his views, he said he was assisting him in getting his beliefs heard.
“I am a friend of Frazier Miller helping to spread his warnings. The Jew-run medical industry has succeeded in destroying the United State’s workforce…Jew-run government backed banking industry turned the U.S into the world’s largest debtor nation.”
That letter to the editor was brought up recently during the town’s election for mayor. However, despite it being made public, Clevenger still defeated the incumbent mayor by 30 votes (Marionville only has a population of a little over 2,000.) The election occurred little more than a week ago. Now, with this national embarrassment, many of the town’s residents want Clevenger tossed out of office. Per another local station, KOLR, residents were picketing City Hall on Wednesday. They are asking for Clevenger to resign. If he refuses, they will then ask for him to be impeached.
Debbie Sallee, one of the town’s residents calling for Clevenger’s resignation, told KOLR the following:
“We plan to go to the city council or board of alderman and ask for his resignation, and we will be asking, if he doesn’t resign, for the Marionville City Council to begin impeachment because we feel he has failed to do what is in the best interest of the citizens of Marionville. No matter what his personal beliefs are, he portrayed those on his interview as the mayor of Marionville, and we are getting feedback from the community and the nation that if we elect a man like that to be our mayor of our city, that we must be like that, too, and that is very important people know that is not our city.”
In the end, I think it is pretty much impossible for Marionville to allow Clevenger to stay on as mayor. His defense of a known racist and white supremacist is pretty much a death knell politically, even in the reddest segment of a red state. Conservative or not, residents don’t want to hear their mayor going on about how much he feels Jews are ruining everything and how he agrees with Miller philosophically. If Clevenger does not leave of his own volition, you can bet that the town will find a way to kick him out of office.
Justin Baragona is the Managing Editor at Politicus Sports as well as Senior Editor at PoliticusUSA. He was a political writer for 411Mania.com before joining PoliticusUSA. Politically, Justin considers himself a liberal but also a realist and pragmatist. Currently, Justin lives in St. Louis, MO and is married. Besides writing, he also runs his own business after spending a number of years in the corporate world. You can follow Justin on Twitter either with his personal handle (@justinbaragona) or the Sports site’s (@PoliticusSports).
