Rep. Steve Scalise is correct to speak out against any hate group, but, his legislative record needs to be clear of any advocacy. Any financial donation that implicates his acceptance of hate needs to end and the monies returned. There can be no indication anywhere he accepts such priorities as a potential of influence in USA law. The minorities of the USA have been assaulted regularly at the State level with laws that oppress their participation in elections and that needs to stop. Rep. Scalise has to represent all his constituents and not just a chosen few.
December 30, 2014
By Catalina Carnia
Rep. Steve Scalise, (click here) the House’s No. 3-ranking GOP leader, said he doesn’t support the views of a white supremacist group he addressed in 2002.
Scalise spoke to the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune amid an uproar over his appearance at a conference of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, an organization founded by David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and ex-state lawmaker. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies EURO as a hate group.
Scalise’s appearance at the EURO event was reported Sunday by CenLamar.com, a liberal blog run by Lamar White Jr. At the time of the event, Scalise was a Louisiana state legislator.
“I didn’t know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group,” Scalise said in the Times-Picayune interview published Monday night. “For anyone to suggest that I was involved with a group like that is insulting and ludicrous.”...
