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Trump ally Kris Kobach can campaign with replica machine gun, town says
Source: Associated Press
Trump ally Kris Kobach can campaign with replica machine gun, town says
Associated Press in Topeka, Kansas
Sat 13 Oct 2018 15.12 BST
Parade organizers in a small Kansas town have decided they will not stop Kris Kobach, the Republican candidate for governor, mounting a replica machine gun on a jeep.
The organizing committee for Iola’s Farm City Days had told Kobach’s campaign it would have to remove the replica gun if it wanted the jeep to be part of Saturday’s event.
Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state who led Donald Trump’s controversial and discredited voter fraud commission, said that would violate his free-speech rights as a proponent of the right to bear arms.
The jeep is also decorated with US flag designs and has a bobblehead of Trump on its hood.
Daniel Schowengerdt, an attorney for the organizing committee, said it never intended to “forcibly prevent (Kobach) from entering” the parade.
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Associated Press in Topeka, Kansas
Sat 13 Oct 2018 15.12 BST
Parade organizers in a small Kansas town have decided they will not stop Kris Kobach, the Republican candidate for governor, mounting a replica machine gun on a jeep.
The organizing committee for Iola’s Farm City Days had told Kobach’s campaign it would have to remove the replica gun if it wanted the jeep to be part of Saturday’s event.
Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state who led Donald Trump’s controversial and discredited voter fraud commission, said that would violate his free-speech rights as a proponent of the right to bear arms.
The jeep is also decorated with US flag designs and has a bobblehead of Trump on its hood.
Daniel Schowengerdt, an attorney for the organizing committee, said it never intended to “forcibly prevent (Kobach) from entering” the parade.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/13/kris-kobach-replica-machine-gun-jeep-donald-trump
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