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I love my new adopted hometown of Reston.  It is a beautiful planned town with a robust commercial Town Center and beautiful tree-lined communities.  But there are some extremist liberals that infest the neighborhood.  Take Ken Meyercord for instance.  He is a holocaust denier, wants to choose who gets to have children and who gets sterilized, and was rabidly anti-war during the Iraq war and wrote books fantasizing about an invasion of the US.  He tried to run for the Reston Citizens Association and was destroyed by a write-in campaign as a reaction to his disgusting personal politics.

From the WashingtonPost here:

Ken Meyercord has an Ivy League education, a high-tech job at Freddie Mac, a local public-access cable television show on international affairs and a long history of writing about what he says are “myths” of the Holocaust, including a piece called “(Holo-) History is Bunk.”

“Survivor accounts of the cremation process gives new meaning to the word ‘tragicomic,’ ” he wrote in the article. “To hear eyewitnesses tell it, it took little more than a match for the corpses to spontaneously combust.”

Residents, mortified by his views on the Holocaust, have thrown together a last-minute write-in campaign to stop him.

In an interview yesterday, Meyercord described himself as “a Holocaust revisionist,” taking pains to distinguish himself from Holocaust deniers. He also denies that Nazis used gas chambers to murder Jews, saying gas chambers did not exist, and expresses skepticism that the number of Holocaust victims reached 6 million.

His other writings include a piece comparing Israel’s treatment of Gaza to the Nazis’ handling of the Warsaw Ghetto; an apocalyptic fantasy in which an invasion of the United States is an allusion to the war in Iraq; and a booklet called “The Ethic of Zero Growth” that argues for holding the world’s population at current levels. And Meyercord has posted the lyrics of two song parodies on the Web, including an off-color, political satire set to “America the Beautiful” called “America the Doody-full.”Meyercord said his views of history changed after living in the Middle East. After attending Dartmouth, he obtained a master’s degree at American University in Beirut, where he also met his wife, who is Palestinian, and became more sympathetic the Arab view of the conflict with Israel.

The WaPo was being kind in their descriptions of this racist.  Meyercord only received 23 votes in the election.  A write-in campaign elected Colin Mills instead with 1,157 votes.  Way to go Reston!