LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) A white county official in Kansas has resigned under pressure after saying at a meeting that he belongs to the master race.
Louis Klemp said in the letter submitted Tuesday resigning his seat on the Leavenworth County Commission that the remark was well-meaning and not racially motivated.
Klemp cited the master race the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy last week while responding to a presentation by a black official, Triveece Penelton.
Klemp was appointed to fill a Republican vacancy in the county just west of Kansas City. He said he was identifying a similarity in their appearance, noting both have a space between their teeth. Penelton said in a statement that the comment was unbelievably inappropriate.
Kansas Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer was among those to demand Klemps resignation.
