An Alaska official who defended using Nazi phrases on licence plates got booted off the state s human rights commission Kelly McLaughlin Jamie Allard, an Anchorage Assembly member, was removed from the state s Human Rights Commission. It comes after she made comments defending the use of FUHRER and 3REICH on licence plates. She will remain on the Anchorage Assembly.
A lawmaker in Alaska was removed from her position on the state s Human Rights Commission on Tuesday after she defended the use of a Nazi phrases on licence plates.
Jamie Allard, an Anchorage Assembly member, had made comments about using FUHRER and 3REICH on licence plates after photos of such plates were shared by attorney Eva Gardner in an interview with Anchorage Daily News and on Twitter by former newspaper editor and reporter Matthew Tunseth.
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After photos emerged on social media of a truck in Alaska bearing the vanity licence plate “3REICH,” many lawmakers were quick to condemn the phrase, a reference to Nazi Germany.
But not Jamie Allard. The Anchorage Assembly member, who also sits on a state commission that investigates discrimination complaints, insisted that the personalized message on the plates was a benign translation from German.
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“If you speak the language fluently, you would know that [is] the English definition of the word,” she wrote on her official Facebook page, which is no longer online. “The progressives have put a spin on it and created their own definition.”
An Alaska official who defended using Nazi phrases on license plates got booted off the state s human rights commission
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Jamie Allard, an Anchorage Assembly member, was removed from the state s Human Rights Commission.
It comes after she made comments defending the use of FUHRER and 3REICH on license plates.
She will remain on the Anchorage Assembly.
A lawmaker in Alaska was removed from her position on the state s Human Rights Commission on Tuesday after she defended the use of a Nazi phrases on license plates.
Jamie Allard, an Anchorage Assembly member, had made comments about using FUHRER and 3REICH on license plates after photos of such plates were shared by attorney Eva Gardner in an interview with Anchorage Daily News and on Twitter by former newspaper editor and reporter Matthew Tunseth.