CBS News/December 29, 2014, 4:37 PM
House majority whip admits he addressed white supremacist group
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, the House majority whip, has admitted to the Washington Post that he addressed a white supremacist organization in 2002, before he was elected to Congress.
At the time, Scalise was a Louisiana state representative, and he appeared before a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), which was founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Blogger Lamar White Jr., who writes about Louisiana state politics, was the first to report the speech, which took place at an "all-day training workshop designed to teach the most effective and up-to-date methods of civil rights and heritage related activism" in Metairie, Louisiana, according to promotional material found by White. The material also said that Duke would be holding a EURO conference in Europe at the same time and would address both the Metairie and the Europe events at the same time, by teleconference.
In a statement, Scalise's spokesperson Moira Bagley said Scalise "was unaware at the time of the group's ideology and its association with racists and neo-Nazi activists," according to the Washington Post.
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