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
for anyone to suggest that i m involved with a group like that is insulting. when people called me and asked me to speak to groups, i went and spoke to groups. now, to add further context here, in 2002 steve skalise was an am bishls state representative. but as a state representative as opposed to a member of congress like he is today, he didn t necessarily have anyone closely vetting every invitation he received. this is from the washington post robert costa who has been reporting on this story today. other allies who requested anonimty added skalise was poorly staffed. however, it should also be noted that it did stir some real controversy at the time.
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.
klu klux klan. he ran as a republican that year, but his overtly racist history prompted many of his party s leaders including then-pet george h.w. bush to denounce him. he was doe feetefeated in that erection and then launched the european rights organization that held a workshop back in may of 2002 in a best western hotel in the suburbs of new orleanss. that was the event that steve skalise was invited to and spoke at. we are training people to run for aufts and put together community-based organizations. ha is what the group s national director said at the tame of that workshop. all of this came to light today
after a louisiana bloger had a member called storm front, probably the most. in that post the ewe e anonymous storm front user says he or she attended the conference in 22 e 002 and that the meeting was productive locally as state representative steve skalise discussed ways to oversee gross misuse of tax revenue or slush funds that have no accountability. the dire circumstances pervasive in many important, under-funded needs of the community at the expensive graft and urban development fund in an apparent give i way. this is the account of one anonymous user of a white supremest igs web site. and to be clear, skalise s office acknowledged today that he did speak to david duke s