BRIGHTON, Colo.—A Colorado white supremacist group that signed up for the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program is being moved to another stretch of road because the one they were assigned already belongs to a church.
The Colorado Department of Transportation says they realized the mistake this week, which they blamed on bad bookkeeping. CDOT says it has assigned the chapter of National Socialist Movement a different portion of U.S. Highway 85 to clean. The group calls itself America’s Nazi Party.
The adoption means the group will get a sign posted in the area with their name on it.
CDOT says they allowed the highway adoption because a denial would’ve violated the group’s free speech.
The 1-mile stretch of highway in Brighton, a suburb north of Denver, that the neo-Nazi group was first assigned already belongs to the Elmwood Baptist Church.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
