Steve Scalise office unsure if he spoke to white supremacist group (apparently now he is sure he did [View all]

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/steve-scalise-113854.html

“Throughout his career in public service, Mr. Scalise has spoken to hundreds of different groups with a broad range of viewpoints,” communications director Moira Smith said Monday. “In every case, he was building support for his policies, not the other way around. In 2002, he made himself available to anyone who wanted to hear his proposal to eliminate slush funds that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars as well as his opposition to a proposed tax increase on middle-class families. He has never been affiliated with the abhorrent group in question. The hate-fueled ignorance and intolerance that group projects is in stark contradiction to what Mr. Scalise believes and practices as a father, a husband, and a devoted Catholic.”

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If he did speak to the group, the Scalise aide said, she “didn’t know they were a white supremacist group.”

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Apparently, he remembers now.


http://thehill.com/homenews/house/228207-no-3-house-republican-leader-spoke-to-white-supremicist-group
No. 3 House Republican leader spoke to white supremacist group

The office of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) confirmed to the Washington Post Monday that he spoke at a white supremacist group’s event in 2002 while he served as a state representative.

In 2002, Scalise was a local representative for LA 82. Highly unlikely he would not have a sign of that. The Republican leadership looks better and better.