Joe Gerth

The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A racist, anti-semitic candidate for U.S. Senate has placed signs around from Northern Kentucky telling voters "With Jews You Lose."

Robert Ransdell, of Florence, acknowledged to WLWT-TV in Cincinnati that the signs were his.

"I believe that there is no such thing as racial equality. You see that in our cities every day," he said.

Ransdell has long been involved in racist and anti-Semitic causes in northern Kentucky and in Ohio.

In 2009, the student newspaper at Northern Kentucky University apologized after it ran an advertisement placed by Ransdell for a website selling white supremacist music. Ransdell, then, was identified as the Cincinnati coordinator for the National Alliance.

That group's website advertises books like "Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin," and it promotes its own news site as "News for White People … By White People."

At an event earlier this year, the Enquirer quoted Ransdell talking at a Ku Klux Klan-type rally in Florence.

"That is one thing you guys love to say, 'it is 2014, how can these racists be out here?' Well, it is 2014. It has been six or seven decades since white people stood up for themselves and it is about time we start doing so," he told the newspaper.

In a post on a white supremacist website, Ransdell promised to increase his visibility recently.

"I am absolutely chomping at the bit going forward with my campaign, only about a month until I am on the air, mainstream radio, primed to start a legitimate 'conversation' about race, as in a racially conscious White man letting loose on the problems we face, that so many of our people are beginning to wake up to," he wrote.

Ransdell has filed as a write-in candidate, meaning that his name will not appear on the ballot but that county clerks across Kentucky will be required to count votes that are written in for him.