House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists

[TexasTowelie]

As Republicans struggle to attract more votes from minorities heading into the 2016 presidential election, a House GOP leader has acknowledged that he once addressed a gathering of white supremacists, though his office denies any association with the group's social views.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the chamber's third-ranking Republican, served in the Louisiana Legislature when he appeared in 2002 at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke founded the group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group.

In a written statement, Scalise aide Moira Bagley Smith confirmed that Scalise addressed the group as it gathered at a New Orleans-area hotel near the neighborhoods that both Scalise and Duke represented during separate stints as state lawmakers.

Smith said in her statement that Scalise spoke only to rally support for conservative fiscal policies in Louisiana, not to endorse the mission and views of his audience. Smith's statement came after a liberal Louisiana blogger, Lamar White Jr., first reported the 12-year-old story using online postings from members.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/House-GOP-leader-once-addressed-white-supremacists-5983900.php

[randys1]

1. KKK = Republican party

[Electric Monk]

2. 22 recs and counting

here http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026018049

[arcane1]

4. What is this "white heritage" of which you speak? Define it.

And as for "end to media portrayal of whites as oppressors" that is classic white supremacist bullshit.

Stop coming here and posting this crap. You fool No One.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Here, let's read what the SPLC has to say about EURO

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/euro

In Its Own Words
"The Jewish media and Jews in general will attack us for wanting to restore White America. The Jews are the enemy of the White race, and they are largely responsible for the ‘browning' of America. The Jews want to rule over a multi-racial brown America that is too ignorant to ever rebel against them."

"The beautiful Germany of the 1930s with blonde children happily running through every village has been replaced with a multi-racial cesspool. Out of work Africans can be seen shuffling along the same streets, which used to be clean and safe in the days of the National Socialists. One day, people in Germany will grow tired of the politically correct police state that is destroying their lives. They will recover their national pride and start speaking the truth about their past regardless of what the militant lesbians or thought police tell them."

[uppityperson]

6. mommy, it followed me home, can I keep it?

[Katashi_itto]

7. Enjoy your stay

[Gothmog]

8. the GOP is the party of old racist white people

[muntrv]

9. Reminds me of when Bob Barr of GA said he didn't know that the Council of Conservative Citizens

was a white supremacist group when he spoke to them.