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Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moores top supporter is a hardline Confederate sympathizer with longtime ties to a secessionist group.
Michael Anthony Peroutka (pictured on the right above, with Moore in 2011) has given Moore, his foundation and his campaigns well over a half-million dollars over the past decade-plus. Hes also expressed beliefs that make even Moores arguably theocratic anti-gay and anti-Muslim views look mainstream by comparison. Chief among them: Hes argued that the more Christian South needs to secede and form a new Biblical nation.
Peroutka, a 2004 Constitution Party presidential nominee who in 2014 won a seat as a Republican on the county commission in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, spent years on the board of the Alabama-based League of the South, a southern secessionist group which for years has called for a southern nation run by an Anglo-Celtic elite. The Southern Poverty Law Center designates the League of the South as a hate group (a designation Peroutka regularly jokes about). That organization, after Peroutka left, was one of the organizers of the Charlottesville protests last summer that ended in bloodshed.
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(6,288 posts)" Southern Poverty Law Center designates the League of the South as a hate group (a designation Peroutka regularly jokes about). That organization, after Peroutka left, was one of the organizers of the Charlottesville protests last summer that ended in bloodshed. "
underpants
(182,884 posts)Flat out racist/white supremacist/Nazi
randr
(12,417 posts)Get them off the federal tit
OnDoutside
(19,972 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)During this time, the step-daughter was placed in a foster home, with her mother's permission.
From 2014:
... Peroutka's campaign treasurer is Tom Pavlinic, a sex-crimes defense attorney who specializes in defending clients accused by very young victims. Pavlinic was Peroutka's attorney when he unsuccessfully sued a social worker who had helped Peroutka's step-daughters when Peroutka and his then-wife, Diane Peroutka, despite his strongly voiced belief that the state should not be in the parenting business, had placed them in the care of the government's foster-care system after one of them had accused Peroutka of sexual abuse and then recanted ...
http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcp-michael-peroutka-seeks-to-mainstream-extremism-20140725-story.html
See also:
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/md-court-of-special-appeals/1314250.html
https://www.premierdefensegroup.com/thomas-a-pavlinic-esq