We helped ruin J.P. Sheehan’s life when he did his fanboy thing around Richard Spencer during CPAC 2016. It’s still ruined.

BETHEL, CT – A vacancy on the town’s Youth Commission has been filled this week following the resignation two months ago of a resident when it was revealed he was a neo-Fascist activist that has been interviewed at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) as a fan of Richard Spencer. 

According to the New Times, J.P. Sheehan had to be replaced as one of two alternates for the commission  after he resigned in October from that as well as the Republican Town Committee after residents learned he had been affiliated with the so-called “alt-right”. He was interviewed in Vice Magazine after he attended the National Policy Institute (NPI) conference in November 2016, and again by the Los Angeles Times at CPAC as he ran up 
sporting a T-Shirt for NPI’s blog Radix to meet Spencer, then the Executive Director of NPI who was eventually thrown out of the conference 30 minutes later. He told Vice that he supported a White ethno-state to ensure what he termed a “social cohesiveness” for Whites. “I don’t think a 100 percent white ethno-state is something that is not possible here in America, because the country is so darn big, he said. “So I would be fine with the US being 80 percent white. “

At the time of the CPAC Conference, Sheehan was president of the College Republicans of Western Connecticut State University, and according to the Los Angeles Times article, had been asked to resign from the group at the time in the wake of them learning of his associations, a representative saying they “disavow and have no relation to him anymore.” Similarly, when his associations were again brought to light by a member of the Bethel Democratic Town Committee, Bryan Terzian, chair of the Bethel Republican Town Committee, said the Republicans talked to Sheehan who then decided to resign after serving on the committee since 2016. “It (alt-right views) does not come close to matching our core values and beliefs,” Terzian said. For his part, Sheehan said he left the “alt-right” because of its “abrasive” tactics, but felt resigning “was the appropriate action to take.”

Sheehan served on the Youth Commission since January. Marie Muthersbaugh was appointed to replace him.