1. Rick Tyler has unsuccessfully run for multiple offices since 2010, and announced that he would run for President in 2020 on the American Freedom Party ticket.
23 Facts About Rick Tyler
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Rick Tyler was born on October 10,1957, in Miami, Florida, the youngest of three children of Richard Seburn "Dick" Tyler and Felecie Chapin Tyler.
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Rick Tyler's parents were raised in Nashville during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Rick Tyler worked for 37 years with Florida Power and Light.
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Rick Tyler ran as an independent in Tennessee's 3rd congressional district in 2016, a seat which has been held by Republican Chuck Fleischmann since 2011.
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The billboard, as well as Rick Tyler's views, received attention from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Rick Tyler claimed that the billboard was not intended to be racist, and that he has no hatred or dislike for racial and ethnic minorities, but rather believes that the United States should remain majority white.
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Rick Tyler announced plans for other billboards, including one that would say, "Mama's, don't let your babies grow up to be miscegenators".
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Rick Tyler cited Donald Trump as an inspiration, but criticized him as a "stalking horse entity".
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On May 28,2019, Rick Tyler spoke at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
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Rick Tyler is reported to have run groups called the Voice of Liberty Patriots and the Georgia Taxpayer's Association.
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In July 2020, Rick Tyler was arrested and charged with tax evasion and property theft after an investigation by the Tennessee Department of Revenue.
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The indictment states that Rick Tyler knowingly refused to withhold and pay approximately $38,000 in sales taxes between April 1,2015, and March 31,2016.
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On May 12,2022, Rick Tyler plead guilty and was sentenced to two years of supervised probation, to be converted to unsupervised probation upon full payment of the restitution amount of $38,224.90.
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Rick Tyler is a follower of Christian identity, a racist interpretation of Christianity and the Bible that holds that white people are superior to people of other races.
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Rick Tyler has expressed a belief on multiple occasions that white people should remain the super-majority racial group in the US, and a desire for the country to return to 1960s-era demographics.
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Rick Tyler blames immigration policies enacted in the 1960s, such as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, for the changes in the demography of the United States, and supports a return to pre-1960s immigration policies, as well as deporting the millions of illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States, ending policies that he claims subsidize minority birth rates, securing the southern border of the US, and encouraging mass immigration from majority white countries.
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Rick Tyler supports Second Amendment rights and believes that any attempt by the government to regulate guns is a criminal act.
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Rick Tyler is opposed to abortion and believes that God is punishing the US for legalizing the procedure.
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Rick Tyler believes that income taxes are unconstitutional and claims that the source of the progressive income tax is the Communist Manifesto.
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Rick Tyler opposes the War on Terror and the Patriot Act and claims that the War on Terror is a distraction technique to keep the US southern border open and enter the US into a New World Order.
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Rick Tyler has expressed opposition to the Council on Foreign Relations and the Department of Homeland Security and believes that individual states should have the right to secede from the union.
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Rick Tyler owned the former Whitewater Grill in Ocoee, which closed in 2018 when he was evicted.