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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 01:34 PM Dec 2014

Former KKK leader (David Duke) says his political adviser was ‘friendly’ with Rep. Scalise

By Robert Costa
Washington Post, December 30 at 2:03 AM

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke said late Monday that his longtime political adviser, Kenny Knight, was “friendly” with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in 2002, and cited that relationship as the reason Scalise accepted an invitation that year to speak at a gathering of white supremacists.

“Scalise would communicate a lot with my campaign manager, Kenny Knight,” Duke said in a phone interview. “That is why he was invited and why he would come. Kenny knew Scalise, Scalise knew Kenny. They were friendly.”

Scalise, then a state lawmaker, spoke in May 2002 at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO, at a hotel in a New Orleans suburb.

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“Maybe that is evidence he knew what he was doing when he came to the meeting,” Duke said. “Who knows? All I know is that Kenny liked him. He thought Scalise, who remember was just a state representative, was sharp. They’d talk about the Hollywood system, about the war, whatever I was concerned about.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/30/former-kkk-leader-says-his-political-adviser-was-friendly-with-rep-scalise/?hpid=z2

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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
6. I think 'currently' he is still in Europe, he was arrested over there for the hate mongering.
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 03:14 PM
Dec 2014

I don't know and don't care where he is, maybe they deported him back to America

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
3. someone should ask duke who gave the kkk that huge 'donation' about 8? years ago & kkk
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 02:31 PM
Dec 2014

upgraded website, got a TV station, couple bands of singers, name change and went International with their hatefest.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
5. Please please please keep talkin' moron.
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 03:11 PM
Dec 2014
Steve Scalise's David Duke Scandal Says More About Republicans Than the Party Will Admit

By Brian Beutler
New Republic

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But by beating Cantor, Brat shook up the leadership hierarchy in the House, and spooked the remaining leaders into welcoming one of those hardliners into their ranks as a token. That token was Steve Scalise, the Louisiana conservative who copped this week to addressing a David Duke–founded neo-Nazi group in 2002, after a local blogger found evidence of his participation, which had gone unnoticed for a decade, lying in plain sight on a prominent white supremacist website.

Scalise may survive this revelation. But another shakeup could be in the offing, and there lies the potential for real conflict among House Republicans. As an emissary to conservatives, Scalise represented a compromise between figures with closer ties to the leadership and more rebellious backbench members. If he has to be removed for this reason, leadership will feel burned and so will the right.

But the more important issue is what happened back in 2002, and what it says about Republican politics, especially in the South.

If more details emerge, and it turns out Scalise was closer to white hate groups than he’s let on—if he knew his audience and was speaking their language—he’s finished. But on the whole, and in a strange way, that might be a better outcome for the party than if Scalise muddles through, claiming ignorance.

Let’s assume that Scalise is telling the truth—that poor staffing explains his participation, and that he rushed in and out of the event too quickly to realize what was up, or that he was led in to the hotel conference center blindfolded, ears plugged, and fled the scene the moment his remarks concluded.

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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120662/steve-scalises-david-duke-scandal-and-republicans-southern-problem

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
7. it's weird, the Republicans new rebrand 'big tent' of diversity & KKK rebrand big tent of diversity
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 03:35 PM
Dec 2014

Dukes 'people' got major funded & went Global-have pushed everyone in their big tent, Jews, Blacks, Immigrants, Muslims, poor people, homeless people, Dems, everyone except 'them'


Republican 'Big Tent'

“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly,
'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy;
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I've a many curious things to shew when you are there.”

“Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain,
For who goes up your winding stair
-can ne'er come down again.”

(poem by Mary Howitt 1829)

AlinPA

(15,071 posts)
8. Why is this Scalise thing even getting any media attention? Hell, if we look at any GOP politician
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 03:51 PM
Dec 2014

we would find KKK or other white supremacist relationships and sentiment if not outright bigotry. It's a GOP party requirement.

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