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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Everett Corley- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-12-19
White Nationalist creep, Everett Corley, posing with a much more famous white nationalist creep.
On this date in 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Everett Corley, a “perennial candidate” still trying to gain political office, failing to win the GOP nomination for Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016, losing in the primary for District 43 of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 2012 and 2014, and losing in the general election for that same seat in the 2018 elections after coming up far short with only 21% of the vote. We have must also note in our article that Everett Corley was born Corley Everett, but changed his name a couple years ago for unexplained “family reasons”. Those reasons may or may have not had something to do with the fact that Corley Everett was endorsed by the white supremacist American Freedom Party along side Neo-Nazi candidate Robert Ransdell back in 2014.
Among the things known about Corley or Everett or… this guy… he had a Facebook page that frequently defended the Confederacy (including calling a Louisville professor a “damn dirty black bastard” for supporting the removal of Confederate monuments), supported Donald Trump’s stupid idea for a border wall on the U.S./Mexico border, or shared the sort white nationalist rhetoric (i.e. lies) about white farmers in Rhodesia being run off by black ones. The “campaign themes” that were on Corley’s 2016 campaign websiteincluded his desire wants to interpret the 2nd Amendment as having zero restrictions (which is still insane), what’s probably far more heinous to see Corley referring to immigration as “cultural suicide” and that allowing birthright citizenship affects the “cultural integrity” of the United States. Corley also called for eliminating the Department of Education and creating “personal accounts” for Social Security, which sounds like he doesn’t understand how it even works.
But changing his name and pretending like his views weren’t explicitly racist was a harder strategy for Everett Corley to continue while just hoping that no one noticed. Because man, did his past catch up to him in a big way. In 2014, around the time the American Freedom Party was endorsing him, Corley Everett (who is still the same guy) appeared on the Youtube show “The EthnoState” back in 2014 with avowed white nationalist William Johnson, and aired several racial grievances during the hour long broadcast, including (but not limited to):
His belief that white voters in western Louisville’s Portland neighborhood are “completely surrounded” because of a Democratic plot where “It’s a bunch of white liberals and minorities who’ve conspired together to cut the white working class out of power.”
His quote about the white nationalist group endorsing him that, “One thing that struck me about the American Freedom Party, if you’re a minority you can belong to all these groups that champion your ethno background but you certainly have very little to do as a European or a Caucasian America.“
His anecdotal story about black on white bullying in schools (that likely wasn’t happening because conveniently had no names or details to corroborate it).
An extended rant about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s marriage to Secretary Elaine Chao:
"I certainly feel that we should maintain our people and our culture as much as anyone else, and that’s a post, and I’m not saying this in a bad way, but that’s a post, shall we say marriage that has not borne any children or anything. That’s simply a marriage of companionship, you understand what I’m saying? I don’t think he’s trying to make a statement about children on that marriage, I just simply think that that’s someone he relates to on an interpersonal relationship. But be that as it may, that primarily is not what I’m, his marriage is not my problem, you know what I’m saying?”
Once the 2014 interview resurfaced, Everett Corley had the balls to try to claim he didn’t understand what kind of show the “EthnoState” was, or what Johnson’s aims were (which, it’s pretty easy to call bulls***, considering the interview’s content), saying, “If I made any mistake it wasn’t doing my homework. I engaged in some hyperbole, but that was all due to my anger over redistricting. If he said he was a racist, a neo-Nazi or a member of the Klan, I would have hung up.”
If there was only one part of the interview that really damned Everett Corley in the eyes of the Kentucky GOP, and that was that he and Johnson discussed the marriage between Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao. Up until that point, mind you, they had nothing to say about all the white nationalist things he was up to. Speaking ill of McConnell or his wife is as close to political suicide as a Republican can make in Kentucky, in any event, so even though he’s only 55, we’re thinking that he might give up on trying to win political office and just spend his weekends out at cross burnings to pass the time instead.
And yet, Everett Corley still persistently registers as a Republican candidate to get his white nationalist ass kicked in election after election, losing in the GOP primary in 2022 for District 26 of the Kentucky State Senate and finishing third with just 21% of the vote.
We don’t know how many times we’ll have to update this bigot’s profile, but at least he’s consistently losing, and that at least makes mentioning him put a smile on our face.
One Year Ago, December 19th, 2021: Nellie Heiskell (TX)
Two Years Ago, December 19th, 2020: Joseph Silk (OK)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, December 19th, 2019: Joseph Silk (OK)… Original Profile
Four Years Ago, December 19th, 2018: Everett Corley (KY)
Five Years Ago, December 19th, 2017: Bill Haslam (TN)… 2017 Update
Six Year Ago, December 19th, 2016: Bill Haslam (TN)… 2016 Update
Seven Years Ago, December 19th, 2015: Bill Haslam (TN)… 2015 Update
Eight Years Ago, December 19th, 2014: Bill Haslam (TN)… Original Profile
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