Fearful ‘conservatives’ boot one of their own under ‘progressive’ pressure
The head of the Arkansas Republican Party (contact here) on Monday called on a county party chairman to stop being the Arkansas point of contact for a group that bills itself as “pro-white,” saying those principles run contrary to the GOP’s.
Chairman Doyle Webb said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that John Casteel should sever his ties with the Council of Conservative Citizens, which grew out of organizations that battled school integration in the 1950s and 1960s. Casteel did not respond to several voice mails and e-mail messages left for him at his insurance business Monday.
Casteel’s e-mail was listed as the contact for both the Republican Party in Jackson County and for the Arkansas branch of the St. Louis-based group. After The Associated Press contacted the Council of Conservative Citizens to ask about Casteel on Monday, the group took Casteel’s e-mail address off its website.