Frank Weltner, the Missouri neo-Nazi sued by the Missouri Attorney General for allegedly creating improper Web sites to collect money for Hurricane Katrina victims, has a history of gaining publicity for questionable activities, usually related to his white supremacist ideology.

Weltner first gained widespread media attention in April 2004 when users of the Google search engine discovered that his virulently anti-Semitic Web site, "Jew Watch," was the top result for people searching the term "Jew."  At that time, a grassroots campaign ensued to convince Google to remove the Web site from its search engine.  Even though that did not happen, the publicity allowed Weltner to voice his views in a number of newspapers.  Typical of those views was this comment: "They (Jews) own the media, they own the banks.  This is a democracy, and in a democracy, minorities should not rule. But Jews don't feel that way; they felt that they should rule the country, and I object to that.  I want my country back."  In fact, Weltner had been presenting such bigoted sentiments on his site since it was created in 1997.  

In addition to the Web site, for several years Weltner hosted an anti-Semitic radio show on a Missouri radio station, WGNU, where he was known as "Couch Potato."  The station shut the show down in early 2005.  He also hosted an on-line radio show broadcast from a site run by the neo-Nazi National Alliance, of which Weltner was a member, and from the Hal Turner Network, another white supremacist Web site.  At one point, the St. Louis chapter of the National Alliance was one of the most active in the country and participated in many distributions of anti-Semitic and racist leaflets.  The chapter also sponsored a "Eurofest" in 2003 intended to recruit among attendees who had no idea the event was being hosted by neo-Nazis.

In January 2005, Weltner, then the public relations director of the St. Louis chapter of the National Alliance, achieved a publicity coup by running advertisements in Metro trains, part of the St. Louis transit system.  Metro did not realize that the ads, proclaiming "The Future Belongs to Us" and listing the group's Web site and phone number, were from a neo-Nazi group.  It subsequently removed them.  In various newspaper articles, Weltner defended the ads and the National Alliance.  However, after an article about the ads also revealed that Weltner had co-owned a home with a Jewish man, his activity with the group seemed to wane.  When the National Alliance went through a power struggle and subsequent mass exodus of members in April 2005, Weltner's role with the group appeared to diminish.  He is, nevertheless, currently listed as a writer on the Web site of a National Alliance splinter group, the National Vanguard.

Weltner has not stopped propagating his anti-Semitic views.  He continues to operate "Jew Watch" and other web sites containing anti-Semitic and racist material.