Posted on 06/21/2021 9:13:00 AM PDT by bitt
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is facing new scrutiny over his decades-long membership in an all-white private beach club, as he bills himself as a progressive and prominent critic of “systemic racism” — dismissing membership based on race as “a long tradition in Rhode Island.”
Whitehouse (D-RI) was confronted Friday by a GoLocal Providence reporter, who published the video along with an article on Saturday detailing what occurred after asking about the senator’s membership at Newport-based Bailey’s Beach Club, part of the Spouting Rock Beach Association.
“I think the people who are running the place are still working on that and I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet,” the progressive pol told the reporter after being asked of the club’s lack of any diversity whatsoever.
Asked if such clubs should continue to exist at a time when the country is having a racial reckoning, Whitehouse replied, “It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them.
“And I think we just need to work our way through the issues,” he added before leaving the scene.
While Whitehouse appeared to dismiss the club’s circumstances, his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, is one of the three largest shareholders in the club.
When the Rhode Island senator, who was first elected in 2006, initially ran for his office, he disavowed his membership and pledged to quit the club, GoLocal reported.
GoLocal pressed Whitehouse and his office over his membership multiple times in 2017, noting that more than a decade had passed since his unkept campaign promise.
After the lawmaker repeatedly declined requests for comment on his involvement in the club, a GoLocal reporter confronted Whitehouse at a Newport-based event in late August of that year.
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When the Rhode Island senator, who was first elected in 2006, initially ran for his office, he disavowed his membership and pledged to quit the club, GoLocal reported.
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...15 years later
Whitehouse is an especially foul creature, even for the Senate.
Pompous hypoctrite....
How is this even possible in this day and age?
Is it a written policy? Or is it something they just do, but no one acknowledges it openly?
One of the nastiest Democrats in the Senate.
The U.S. Senate may be the most foul collection of criminals, perverts and psychopaths in existence anywhere in the world.
Interesting that looking it up, there is ZERO way to join online. I guess you have to be invited, and the white kind of person to join. Nobody will invite you if you aren’t the white kind of person.
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5.56mm
No need to panic . . . they all identify as black folks when the club be open. It’s all good.
uh
Um-um-um
Well he’s a White... House...
He’s racist, racist, only with whites he hangs out.
Well he’s a White... House...
Like Klansman, that’s a fact ain’t holding nothing back
''There was a time in Newport,'' Mrs. Slocum said last week over a lunch of chicken à la king and asparagus at her 1880 mansion on Bellevue Avenue, when standards at Bailey's drifted and grew lax. ''People were bringing in rougher types who behaved badly and used unacceptable language, people like Ted Turner.''
Whitehouse, blumenthal and leaky leahy are three of the most vicious, corrupt and hypocritical bigots in the US senate.
There are many more, but these three are especially vile.
When it comes to democrooks the rule is “Don’t do as I do, do as I say”
But All BLACK groups are OK.
List needs Schiff and that icky Jamie Raskin. He really raises the creep factor. Lots more though.
They probably do not let a lot of whites in either,.,
Trump was the first Club on Palm Beach to let in Blacks and Jews...
...and that’s an understatement!
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