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Hatewatch/SPLC: Steve Scalise’s Denials Are Not Believable (about the David Duke conference)
Great breakdown and tons of info about the EURO conference. Here's a good part:
Newspapers at the time of the EURO conference reported that a minor league baseball team from Iowa had changed hotels after learning that it would be held where they planned to stay.
A minor league baseball team knew what that organization was all about, but this GOP politician didn't? Riiiight.
Faced with an exploding crisis sparked by the revelation that the No. 3 Republican in the House gave a speech to a well-known group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis a dozen years ago, the GOP in Rep. Steve Scalises home state of Louisiana is doubling down, calling the entire episode a mere manufactured blogger story.
Really? A manufactured blogger story?
Scalise claimed yesterday that he had no idea of the views promoted by the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), whose workshop he addressed in 2002 at a hotel in Metairie, La. And he was backed by an array of Louisiana Republicans including state GOP chair Roger Villere Jr., who described Scalise as a man of great integrity who embodies his Christian faith in his life. Villere dismissed the story broken by Louisiana blogger Lamar White Jr. as an attempt to score political points by slandering the character of a good man.
But Scalises claim of ignorance is almost impossible to believe. He was a state representative and an aspiring national politician at the time, and Louisiana-based EURO already was well known as a hate group led by Americas most famous white supremacist.
EURO was founded two years before Scalise agreed to speak to its conference by Louisiana resident David Duke, a media-friendly neo-Nazi and onetime grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who had made a national name for himself by running repeatedly for office. He won his first elected office in 1989, when he became a state representative, garnering local headlines across Louisiana. In 1990, he won more than 600,000 votes in an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate, and in 1991, he took almost 700,000 votes in a run for governor. Newspapers around the world wrote about his ultimately losing fight against the scandal-dogged Edwin Edwards and the bumper sticker it engendered: Vote for the crook, its important.
Really? A manufactured blogger story?
Scalise claimed yesterday that he had no idea of the views promoted by the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), whose workshop he addressed in 2002 at a hotel in Metairie, La. And he was backed by an array of Louisiana Republicans including state GOP chair Roger Villere Jr., who described Scalise as a man of great integrity who embodies his Christian faith in his life. Villere dismissed the story broken by Louisiana blogger Lamar White Jr. as an attempt to score political points by slandering the character of a good man.
But Scalises claim of ignorance is almost impossible to believe. He was a state representative and an aspiring national politician at the time, and Louisiana-based EURO already was well known as a hate group led by Americas most famous white supremacist.
EURO was founded two years before Scalise agreed to speak to its conference by Louisiana resident David Duke, a media-friendly neo-Nazi and onetime grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who had made a national name for himself by running repeatedly for office. He won his first elected office in 1989, when he became a state representative, garnering local headlines across Louisiana. In 1990, he won more than 600,000 votes in an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate, and in 1991, he took almost 700,000 votes in a run for governor. Newspapers around the world wrote about his ultimately losing fight against the scandal-dogged Edwin Edwards and the bumper sticker it engendered: Vote for the crook, its important.
Read more: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/12/30/steve-scalises-denials-are-not-believable/
Duke's connection was not exactly hidden:
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Hatewatch/SPLC: Steve Scalise’s Denials Are Not Believable (about the David Duke conference) (Original Post)
uhnope
Jan 2015
OP
You can't have teachings of Christ and racism, the two are direct opposites.
Dont call me Shirley
Jan 2015
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Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)1. You can't have teachings of Christ and racism, the two are direct opposites.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)2. What about the Slate article?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/kenny_knight_and_barbara_noble_claim_steve_scalise_never_spoke_to_euro_did.html
Seems that there is a difference of opinion as to what group he was addressing.
He spoke early in the day to a contingent of people, prior to the conference kicking off, Knight said. He was not there as a guest speaker at the conference.
Seems that there is a difference of opinion as to what group he was addressing.