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White supremacist loses judicial race

By Brad A. Greenberg

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/white_supremacist_loses_judicial_race_20080603/

Bill Johnson, the candidate for the Los Angeles Superior Court bench who had advocated restricting U.S. citizenship to non-Hispanic whites, appears buried in tonight’s election. With 12.3 percent of precinct reporting, Johnson had garnered only 28.8 percent of the vote; James Bianco had received 71.2.

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