8-3-2018

SPOKANE, Wash. — The chair of the Spokane County Republican Party resigned, one day after a video surfaced showing her defend a 22-year-old white nationalist.

The Spokesman-Review says Cecily Wright had come under fire Tuesday after inviting James Allsup to speak at a Northwest Grassroots meeting to dispel his label as a racist and white supremacist.

Allsup, known as a prolific YouTuber posting videos of racist taunts, has been affiliated with a white separatist group called Identity Evropa.

Wright said Allsup was a victim of “label lynching.”