AP / Yahoo News: House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists [Don't have much sympathy for the Stupid Cowardly Party, but I always get a kick out of the Mainstream Media quoting the SPLC as if it is the final word on this subject, as if it were the National Science Foundation of Hate Sociology, when the SPLC even goes after "hate groups" like hapless people in small town churches who are simply conservative enough not to embrace things like gay marriage. --tma]

The SPLC is always publishing maps of hate groups that are always "on the rise ... rise ... rise"--I tell you--RUN! --tma


House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists

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. ...

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