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Democratic leadership responded in turn by publicly stating that they disavowed Darby and his beliefs and said they would not put him forward for any public office in the future; he was not expelled from the party or officially banned from any activities there, as it was assumed (correctly) that his reaction to being told he was unwelcome would be for him to depart on his own. Darby lashed out against the leadership for "censorship" but saw his political career completely evaporate since that time.
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Larry Darby, in his first run for public office, was the runner-up candidate for
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quoted him as saying, "I am what the propagandists call a
Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," and "there was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all." Darby attributed the claims of millions of deaths in the Holocaust to the
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Darby promoted the constitutional principle of separation between religion and government. Darby also supported Judge Moore's early argument that the federal government had no jurisdiction over this matter. He opposed the placement of what he called "a monument to Jewish law" in a government
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