Curtiss Reed Jr.

Civil Rights Commission Ousts VT Chair Over Anti-Bush Comments, Nazi Comparison

Ryan J. Reilly | December 7, 2010, 4:08PM

Curtiss Reed

The conservative-controlled U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ousted the chairman of the agency's Vermont State Advisory Committee last week over an October column in which he wrote that the Republican gubernatorial candidate's "Pure Vermont" slogan "raises the specter of Hilter's Aryan Nation and the Khmer Rouge, where the purifying agent was genocide."

The commission voted not to reauthorize the reappointment of Curtiss Reed Jr. as chair of the Vermont SAC, though he had the unanimous support of the rest of the Vermont committee. In an interview with TPM on Tuesday, Reed said his remarks were not intended to imply that former gubernatorial candidate Brian Dubie was a racist.

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