Website links to neo-Nazis

Site attacked Deutch’s stance on gun control

A volunteer for the campaign of Republican congressional candidate Nicolas Kimaz has promoted on his website a white supremacist article that refers to incumbent U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-West Boca, as a “vile, odious Jew.”

The site, DitchtheDeutch.com, claims Deutch is for gun confiscation and, to bolster its point, links to an article on the white supremacist and anti-Semitic site, the Daily Stormer.

“I really don’t like Ted Deutch, and he needs to go,” said David Burnham, the self-described surrogate for the Kimaz campaign who created the site. “He’s been there since 2008, and he really hasn’t done much of anything.”

At first, it was unclear who operated the DitchtheDeutch.com site. The domain registration was hidden behind a proxy domain-purchasing service.

But only one Twitter account has used the #DitchtheDeutch hashtag. It belonged to Burnham, who owns and operates Certified Muffler, a custom car exhaust shop in Margate.

Reached by phone, he said he was a campaign surrogate for Kimaz and confirmed he had created the Ditch the Deutch website.

Kimaz, who is challenging Deutch, said he had not seen the site. He also said Burnham volunteered for him “a couple of times” and was not an official surrogate for the campaign.

Burnham said that he didn’t know why he posted the link and that he only skimmed the article.

The headline read: “GunGrabbing Jew Crows that the Florida Gun-Grab is Just the Beginning of the GunGrabbing.”

“Anyone who posts an article on his or her website is responsible for what’s in it. The headline alone from that article should have told him it was unacceptable,” Deutch said. “I have faced anti-Semitism from time to time throughout my life, but I never suspected that something this horrific would be used in politics, especially in a Jewish community who will feel this personally.”

After an interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Burnham removed the link and instead linked to an anti-Deutch article on Daily Wire, a website founded by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.

“This is the kind of thing that the Republican Party needs to speak out against,” Deutch said. “If a surrogate from the campaign of a Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives invokes this kind of vitriolic anti-Semitism, the Republican Party can’t remain silent.”

ANTHONY MAN/SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, pictured at an August meeting with the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, is the subject of anti-Semitic attacks featured on a website created by a volunteer for the campaign of Deutch’s Republican opponent, Nicolas Kimaz.