The mayor of a small Missouri town has mostly nice things to say about the white supremacist accused of killing three people at Jewish facilities last weekend.

Marionville, Mo. Mayor Dan Clevenger spoke warmly this week of Frazier Glenn Miller, who allegedly went on a killing rampage on Sunday in Overland Park, Kan.

“He was always nice and friendly and respectful of elder people, you know, he respected his elders greatly. As long as they were the same color as him,” Clevenger said while laughing, according to television station KSPR. “Very fair and honest and never had a bit of problems out of him.”

Clevenger said he sympathized with some of Miller’s views, but didn’t like to broadcast that.

“Kind of agreed with him on some things but, I don’t like to express that too much,” Clevenger, the owner of a local repair shop, said.

He told CNN this week that he didn’t buy some of Miller’s claims.

“He had a lot of hate built up inside of him,” Clevenger said. “And every time he’d come down here, he’d go on about different races — mainly Jews. He claims they’re all bad, but I don’t believe that.”

However, the mayor expressed admiration for Miller’s mission in a letter to the editor sent nearly a decade ago to a newspaper in Aurora, Mo.

“I am a friend of Frazier Miller helping to spread his warnings,” Clevenger wrote, according to KSPR. “The Jew-run medical industry has succeeded in destroying the United State’s workforce.”

Clevenger also reportedly wrote that the “Jew-run government backed banking industry turned the U.S into the world’s largest debtor nation.”

He seemed to stand by those positions in his interview with KSPR, blaming Jews for the country’s economic woes.

“There some things that are going on in this country that are destroying us. We’ve got a false economy and it’s, some of those corporations are run by Jews because the names are there,” he said. “The fact that the Federal Reserve prints up phony money and freely hands it out, I think that’s completely wrong. The people that run the Federal Reserve, they’re Jewish.”

But Clevenger denounced Miller’s alleged violence, calling the deadly shooting “terrible.”

“He didn’t have any right to do that and I think he should pay with his life,” Clevenger said.

Update: TPM reached Clevenger, who said he’s “all done” talking about Miller.