Posted on 12/31/2014 9:33:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-La.) said Wednesday that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) needs to respond with "more than words" to a controversy over a speech he gave to a white supremacist group in 2002.
Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, implied that she doubted her fellow Louisiana lawmaker's explanation, that he did not know the views of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, which was founded by well-known former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
"This was not 50 years ago, it was 12 years ago, and every member knows what David Duke stands for, and any organization that was affiliated at that time with David Duke is obviously the Ku Klux Klan," Jackson Lee said on MSNBC's "NewsNation." "And we know what the Ku Klux Klan stands for, for hate, for the killing of Jews and Catholics and African-Americans and anyone that they disagree with, even today.
"So I’m enormously disappointed, and I frankly believe that it is important for further statements to come from the whip," she added.
Scalise added in a statement on Tuesday that the appearance was "a mistake I regret."
Echoing a statement from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) spokesman Drew Hammill on Tuesday, Jackson Lee called for policy action.
"Why doesn’t he take the leadership in reauthorizing the voting rights act in a bipartisan manner, or moving forward on criminal justice reform, or even working to pass immigration reform," Jackson Lee said. "I think it’s got to be more than words, it’s got to be action."
Jackson Lee's comments contrast with those of Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), another Black Caucus member who is also from Scalise's home state.
“I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body," Richmond told the New Orleans Times-Picayune in crucial early backing for Scalise.
Jackson Lee said Republicans have a long way to go.
"I think the Republican leadership, the Republicans in the House and the Senate, have a huge mountain to climb," she said. "Because it was not in the dark ages that he made this speech, it was just a few years ago."
What a hoot!
rumor has it that Kim Jung Un has quite a crush on Sheira Jackson Ree!!
And the average person with a brain knows what Jesse and Al stand for and we stand around and take it.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee can go pleasure herself with a dildo shaped like Robert Byrd.
So Sheila needs more than words.What if he wrote her a check?
Ahh,loose shoes.She got one out of three right.
sheila likes to kick balls around....
Is not Sheila’s democratic party, the party of slavery, the KKK and lynching of Blacks, the party of segregation and murdering Blacks and Hispanic babies by abortion? What about Senator Byrd, leader of the KKK and the most revered democratic figure for decades in both, Congress and Senate.
Ah yes, a wounded animal (dimocrat), they are in the foulest of moods lately. Doesn’t matter what this guy does in the future he will forever be branded a racist in their minds and nothings gonna change that. Their just trying to use it as political leverage.
“Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-La.)”
To the idiot who wrote this column:
I can only wish that this twit would be from Louisiana. Unfortunately, she lives in my town in TEXAS, you DUMB-OX!
Good afternoon.
What did the black Caucasian caucus say about Robert KKK Byrd?
5.56mm
She is a disgrace but her district will keep electing her because......wait for it....she’s BLACK and they’re black!
Steve Scalise is a threat and the Godless democrats know it. They want to smash him. He better not stand down. He better not resign. We got rid of Landrieu maybe God will shine and we will one day get rid of that racist, inept, disgrace Sheila Jackson. Democrats are just losers with big mouths.
Consider this - she’s considered the “best and brightest” of her district by the people in that district.
Oh for God’s sake, it was 12 years ago.
“To the idiot who wrote this column:
I can only wish that this twit would be from Louisiana. Unfortunately, she lives in my town in TEXAS, you DUMB-OX!”
Good Catch!
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But yet it was OK that unrepentant Robert Byrd (D) WV was a Grand Kleagle in the KKK and continued to use the forbidden word regularly.
He was the “Conscience of the Senate.”
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