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LEAVENWORTH, Kan (AP) – Kansas governor Jeff Colyer has called on a White County official to resign after this official said at a public meeting that he belonged to "the race of masters." ".
Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp cited the master race – the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy – at a board meeting on Tuesday as he responded 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.
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