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Two candidates who want to "protect white people's rights" are running for different public offices in Inland Empire
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Jeff Hall, who has been involved in neo-Nazi rallies in the Inland Empire, is a candidate for a board position on the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside County.
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Jeff Hall, who has been involved in neo-Nazi rallies in the Inland Empire, is a candidate for a board position on the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside County.
During business hours, he is a plumber by trade, but in his spare time he proudly wears the swastika, the emblem of the former Nazi Party in Germany.
He is the regional organizer for the National Socialist Movement (NSM), holding controversial rallies across the Inland Empire.
Now, Jeff Hall wants to serve as board member of the Western Municipal Water District, which serves neighboring Riverside County.
In an interview with the Fontana Herald News, Hall explained that he is seeking public office to "better serve the community" instead of representing big businesses and corporations like "most career politicians do."
"Why not?" Hall answered when asked why he is running for the position. "If I were a member of the Black Panthers, or a member of the Brown Berets or La Raza, this would not be an issue. President Barack Obama is a community organizer just like I am. If he became president, I too can become a board member."
Hall, who belongs to the "largest national socialist party operating in the United States of America today," said that if elected, he will look at the facts and will help alleviate the drought issue after celebrating with fellow neo-Nazis and family members.
"This is not a stepping stone for me and I don't look at making money like other politicians do. I take it very seriously and the first thing I will do is to order water rationings and bring the water fees down. We have to learn from mistakes. We have to really represent people. I'm not a career politician, I'm just a worried resident who wants to bring change," Hall added. "I'm just a normal person who happens to protect white people's rights."
According to its website, members of the NSM "co-operate and work with many minded white nationalist groups and many others which are either National Socialist or at least, racially aware of our European heritage." NSM's beliefs include "defending the rights of white people everywhere, preservation of our European culture and heritage, strengthening family values, economic self-sufficiency and reform of illegal immigration policies."
"We do border patrolling and help authorities reduce illegal immigration," said Hall. "We are not a criminal group. We are normal citizens who work and have families. It's just that we don't go out telling everybody what we support because of security issues. We do great things for the community; we just opened up a scholarship for white people to benefit. We are not criminals, we just want to protect and serve."
However, to Luis Moises Escalante, chairman of the Justice for Immigrants Coalition of the Inland Empire, the NSM group is synonymous with hate, violence and death -- a group with a hateful agenda that does not offer solutions to any problems.
"It is very scary to hear that a person with this mentality has the desire to hold public office. He can argue all he wants in favor of his group; the truth is that they are hateful people who promote violence, and given the power they will use it against everybody except the white race," said Escalante. "It is our duty as responsible citizens to prevent people like him from holding office by going out and vote. We cannot allow people with destructive mindsets be in office -- any type of office."
Hall is not the only candidate running for elected office in the Inland Empire on Nov. 2 whose goal is to defend "white people's rights."
Daniel Schruender, a member of the Aryan Nations, is seeking a seat at the Rialto School Board.
When asked to comment, Schruender said via e-mail that he will no longer give interviews to the media because "you often twist the truth."
Edgar Montes, a candidate for the same position in Rialto and a local activist, said Schruender has no chance of winning because people with his mentality have no place in society.
"He does not stand a chance. People are too smart to elect a person with his background," said Montes.
Despite heavy criticism, both candidates are sticking to their plan and are campaigning with the little economic resources they have.
"I will have some votes. When people realize what I stand for, they will vote for me," concluded Hall.