when thurman ran for president, we voted for him. we re proud of him. and if the rest of the country would have followed our lead we wouldn t have had all of these problems over all of these years, neither. top republicans, including george w. bush s white house. tonight, skalise s republican leaders are said to be monitoring this situation carefully while skalise s allies mound a defeint e fence. steve is a highly devout catholic. it is unbelievable to me that he would knowingly speak to a group that hates his religion. eric eric zone one of the most prominent conservative bloggers says how do you show up at a david duke event and not know what it is. again, there are no videos or
runoff for seat in congress. in that year 19 9d 9, another person kond e considered a contender with erer for that house seet was steve skalise in which they asked him about going up against david duke in a republican. also of note here. the year they e that they spoke, that year was 2002. and that was the same year that mississippi s trent lock who was days away from becoming the new majority leader of the u.s. senate delivered these remarks at the 100th birth day party for strom thurman.
what skalise has going for him is the fact that we don t have the transcript of what skalise said or the video of what skalise said. if this turns out to be a boilerplate speech, it s a lot different nan what trent lott said he was supporting what thurman was doing. i guess, though frapg, we were in that post eric ericson, the conservative bloger put up saying how kwould you not know it s david duke s event. i guess we re saying this conference occurred in 2002 that duke had come within three-points of making it to a run aif for a congressional seat in louisiana. he made the gubernatorial runoff. in was a guy who definitely had a conservative political con stitch when esill in louisiana. is it plausible with a very ambitious audience wouldn t know
that same weekend that it was held may 16th to may 19th that same weekend, was chicago cub s minor league baseball team the iowa cubs were schedule today be in town to play the new orleans severs. they were booked to stay at the best west tern in louisiana. but when they fouchbd out that david duke s group was going to be using that hotel for its workshop, the entire team which included 30 players and coaches, six of them african american, all of them pulled out. it had been active in opposing efforts to remove the confederate flag from south carolina s state capitol, a major battle jst over a decade isle e ago. and just three years before david skalise spoke to dave duke s group, he had come just 3 percentage points of making a
statement to his own home paper that when he gave that speech to a white supremacist group run by david duke that he had no eye deeft group s racist ties or no ideas of the ties to david duke that he was delivering his standard speech on taxes and budget issues. he was a state legislator in louisiana, had his eye set on higher office, but didn t have the structure that he does have now as a member of congress. this is part of skal ease s plan. he gave his standard speech not knowing of the group s ties. at the same time skepticism