MC: ‘Big Man In Hate’ Knew Von Brunn

What struck me about my conversation with Hess (right) yesterday was his consistency. What he said Wednesday matched what he’d said in conversations we had when I was the schools reporter in North Idaho: he hates guns and wants to create change for the racist movement through civic action, not violence. However, it should be noted that a national hate watch group has documentation of Hess being arrested at an anti-immigration rally in California for burning a Mexican flag. Hess lost a bid for the North Idaho College Board of Trustees in fall 2006, then signed up for the school paper as a student in a story you can read here. He quit when the staff prohibited him from calling illegal immigrants “illegal aliens.” Read a story on that here. The story on his candidacy is available here /Meghann M. Cuniff, SR Sirens & Gavels. More here .