Campaign Donations Linked to White Supremacist

[Depaysement]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by TexasTowelie (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: NY Times

The leader of a white supremacist group that has been linked to Dylann Roof, the suspect in the murder of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, including those of 2016 presidential contenders such as Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul, records show.

Mr. Cruz, a Texas senator, said Sunday night that he would be returning about $8,500 in donations that he had received from the Texas donor, Earl Holt III, who lists himself as president of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

“We just learned this evening that Mr. Holt had contributed to the campaign,” a spokesman for the Cruz campaign said in an email to The New York Times. “We will be immediately refunding all those donations.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/us/campaign-donations-linked-to-white-supremacist.html?emc=edit_na_20150622&nlid=9219800&ref=cta&_r=0

[delrem]

1. I hear from some that even in $2.5billion campaigns, the donors don't matter.

That what matters is whether the sound bytes are copasetic.

I guess in this case there's just no way to stage manage a sound byte.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Locking thread.

Statement of Purpose

Post the latest news from reputable mainstream news websites and blogs. Important news of national interest only. No analysis or opinion pieces. No duplicates. News stories must have been published within the last 12 hours. Use the published title of the story as the title of the discussion thread.

See duplicate thread at http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141123788