Posted on 12/30/2014 9:17:07 AM PST by cotton1706
A member of John Boehner’s inner circle is under fire even as the House Speaker is at his most vulnerable: Exactly one week before the House GOP’s top official will seek re-election to his post.
“Every member who votes for John Boehner is vulnerable because not only is he unpopular with the base after his lame duck deception, but now he’s exposing members to the results of his poor judgement,” a senior GOP aide told Breitbart News after news broke Monday from the Washington Post and local Louisiana sources that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise spoke at a conference of white supremacists back in 2002.
“Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white nationalist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002, thrusting a racial controversy into House Republican ranks days before the party assumes control of both congressional chambers,” the Washington Post’s Robert Costa wrote late Monday. “The 48-year-old Scalise, who ascended to the House GOP’s third-ranking post earlier this year, confirmed through an adviser that he once appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization. That organization, founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, has been called a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
Scalise is Boehner’s second lieutenant, serving right beneath House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. His scandal could put pressure on every Republican member who voted for him for whip. It also, that senior GOP aide said, shows Boehner and McCarthy are weak leaders because they either failed to properly vet Scalise or they withheld information about his past.
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How did John Boehner not know that Scalise courted KKK money?
He had to have known, AND Boehner advocated Scalise anyway!
We’re talking about getting rid of Boehner.
He had to have known that Scalise courted KKK money.
Democrat Robert “Sheets” Byrd, was unavailable for comment.
Yes, this non-scandal, is far more important than any of Obama’s real scandals /s
Scalise had plenty of time and opportunity to have addressed his mistake before it became news. We can only assume it was used to force him to vote against the will of the voters.
I wish someone would come out with some really nasty, easily verifiable stuff on Boehner. It might be the only way to get these creeps out of positions of power.
Hold on. Wait just a minute. Whoa. Stop.
Steve Scalise was accused of speaking to a white supremist group? Accused by the Southern Poverty Law Center? Morris Dees’ outfit?
Hell, I would take being called a racist byt that outfit as a badge of honor. To them anyone that disagrees with Al Sharpton is a racist.
You are correct on all your points.
Doesn’t he realize that only democrats can have racist views, Kill white men, kill republicans, kill conservatives, kill global warming deniers. kill anyone that does not toe the party line.
“They should know, as the SPLC is the biggest hate group out there.”
You’re not kidding.
There used to be a cadre here at FR that would post SPLC material accusing mainstream immigration control groups of being eugenicists, racists, all the usual smears designed to shut down debate.
Now that amnesty and illegal immigration are on the radar of most Americans I don’t see them posting that garbage anymore.
Anything David Duke is enough to prove the case, but when they throw in any reference to the Southern Poverty Law Center, it sure brings up lots of question marks as to “objectivity”.
I guess so. I want Boner out but this is a So what issue.
“Remember Sen. Robert Byrd?” should be the first thing out of any GOPer’s mouth.
Maybe this will be enough to further the conservative rebellion in the House and topple Tammy Faye.
And the dems had Robert bird an actual MEMBER of the KKK and the press LOVED HIM.
This happened 12 YEARS AGO, it doesn’t matter anymore.
ANYONE who votes for boner or mc Connell will NOT GET MY VOTE for PRESIDENT. ARE YOU LISTENING TED CRUZ and all the other ‘good conservatives’ in the senate?
EVERY SENATOR voted FOR mc connel, EVERY ONE OF THEM!!!!
Boehner MUST BECOME flaccid..
Steve Scalise IS a conservative and these allegations are crap, don’t join the radical left race baiters in pushing them.
Won’t amount to a pinch of owl sh!t here in Louisiana. The newspapers are just wasting ink.
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