A Republican candidate’s own children have warned voters
in Missouri against electing their “fanatic” father to the state assembly, just
days before the midterms.
“A lot of his views are just very out there,” Emily West
said of her father, Steve West.
“He’s made multiple comments that are racist and
homophobic and how he doesn’t like the Jews,” she told the Kansas City Star
this week.
“I can’t imagine him being in any level of
government."
Her brother, Andy West, told the newspaper his father is
a “fanatic” that “must be stopped”.
“His ideology is pure hatred. It’s totally insane … If he
gets elected, it would legitimize him. Then he would become a state official,
and he’s saying that Jews shouldn’t even have civil rights,” he said.
Anti-Semitic and homophobic comments by Steve West, who
goes by the name “Jack Justice” on his YouTube channel, have come to light
since he comfortably won his Republican primary in August.
“Looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler was right
about what was taking place in Germany,” he said on a radio show in 2017.
In attacks on the LGBT+ community, the 64-year-old has
said homosexuality and pedophilia are “absolutely linked” and described
women’s athletics as a “breeding ground for lesbianism”.
Just this week, Steve West told NBC News, without
providing evidence: “The homosexual world, they are by much greater per cent
predators – especially when it comes to boys.”
The Missouri Republican Party, which does not endorse
him, has previously branded his comments “shocking and vile” and said his
rhetoric has “absolutely no place in the party”.
Despite the party’s condemnation, Steve West still has
the opportunity to become the Republican state representative of the state’s
15th district on Tuesday.
“I’m deeply disturbed by his candidacy,” Jon Carpenter,
the Democratic incumbent, said of his opponent. “It’s my hope that the voters
of the 15th district overwhelmingly reject that kind of bigotry on election
day.”
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