Gloversville Newspaper Series on KKK Draws Criticism

By Robert Gavin

GLOVERSVILLE – When a Fulton County newspaper ran a three-day series on the presence of the Ku Klux Klan in the area, it became the most widely read story its publisher can recall on its website.

It also drew wide criticism.

Gloversville Mayor Dayton King slammed the stories in the Leader-Herald as inaccurate and undue publicity for a notorious hate group.

"It has caused a stir in our city and our community," said the two-term mayor.

Reporter Mike Anich's stories in the Leader-Herald, which ran Sunday through Tuesday, quoted self-identified Klan members who boasted that 4,000 KKK members were active in the state and 200 in Fulton County – and that local teachers, lawyers and doctors were "happily claiming Klan membership."

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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)