Louis Klemp, who said whites were a "master race", must resign, said Kansas governor Jeff Colyer

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer has called for a White County official to resign after this official said at a public meeting that he belonged to "the masters race". Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp cited the master race – the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy – at a board meeting on Tuesday as he reacted to a presentation by a black official. Triveece Penelton, on road development options in Tonganoxie, just west of Kansas City.

Colyer, a Republican, said Saturday in a statement that the remark was unacceptable. He said: "Racial and discriminating languages ​​have no place in our society, especially when they are spoken by a person occupying a public office."

Some members of the county commission also called on Klemp to resign. Klemp, who was appointed to fill a vacant Republican position, told KSHB-TV off camera that his comment was a joke.

CBS affiliate, KCTV, reported that Commissioner Bob Holland had stated that the strange observations had nothing to do with the agenda.

"What is it that race of masters?" Bob Holland said. "None of us are a master race, we are all Americans and we are all human beings."

However, Leavenworth County Administrator Mark Loughry issued a statement in which he stated that the comments related to the fact that Klemp and the woman he was talking to had holes in his teeth.

"On a number of occasions over the past year, Mr. Klemp said that players with a gap in the lower front teeth are members of the main race," Loughry said. "At the meeting on Tuesday, he stated that the lady who appeared before the board of directors and he were both members of the main race because of the gap in their teeth."

Loughry added: "The use of the term" Master Race ", as misguided as it is, did not refer to the Nazis nor was it racially used in this case."