Republican Crime Blotter -- Only The Best Thieves, Racists And Hypocrites

Lock him up!  Lock him up!

Last week, Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville) faced widespread calls for his resignation after he spoke at a celebration honoring the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard during the same weekend that longtime congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis was memorialized nearby in Selma.

On Thursday, Dismukes was arrested on a felony charge of first-degree property theft. Prosecutors say the legislator stole thousands of dollars between 2016 and 2018 from a flooring company where he worked before his election to the Alabama House of Representatives. [snip]

Dismukes refused to resign his seat after speaking at a July 25 party honoring the birthday of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and early leader of the KKK. The event at a private property called Little Dixie happened the same weekend as Lewis’s body arrived in Selma, the town where he was beaten by police while marching with civil rights protesters on “Bloody Sunday.” Lewis died last month at age 80.

But on July 29, Dismukes did resign from his job as a pastor at a rural Southern Baptist church. Five other local Southern Baptist leaders also put out a statement in the wake of his resignation to “reaffirm our opposition to any kind of racism.”

Thief (allegedly!), racist KKK supporter, Bible thumping hypocrite.  With that pedigree, he still has a future in the Republican Party of Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump, convicted or not!

(Photo:  Dis puke, via the Alabama House of Representatives)