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Trump ally Kris Kobach (Nazi-KS) accepted donations from white nationalists
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/05/trump-ally-kris-kobach-donations-white-nationalistsRecent financial disclosures show that Kobach, a driving force behind dozens of proposals across the US designed to suppress minority voting and immigrant rights, has accepted thousands of dollars from white nationalists. Donors include a former official in the Trump administration who was forced to resign from the Department of Homeland Security this year after emails showed he had close ties to white supremacists and once engaged in an email exchange about a dinner party invitation that was described as “Judenfrei”, or free of Jews.
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Public financial records show Kobach received political contributions from US Immigration Reform Pac, a political action committee closely affiliated with John Tanton, a retired ophthalmologist who is known as the founder of the modern American anti-immigrant movement.
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In 2004, a $10,000 donation from US Immigration Reform Pac helped kickstart Kobach’s career. This year the group, which is run by Tanton’s wife, Mary Lou Tanton, donated $2,000 more to Kobach’s gubernatorial campaign. It has also contributed to the Iowa congressman Steve King, who has come under fire for his support of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Europe, and to Mo Brooks of Alabama, a Republican congressman who has said “illegal aliens are a plague on America”.
Kobach’s campaign has also received sporadic small donations of hundreds of dollars from Paul Nachman, who is described by the SPLC as a “Montana-based extremist who regularly writes for Vdare, an overtly racist blog that serves as a hub for white nationalists and antisemites”. The blog is named after Virginia Dare, who is believed to have been the first English child born in the Americas. Asked if he considered himself to be a white nationalist, Nachman responded in an email to the Guardian: “So you think someone who’s Jewish is a white nationalist?”
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Public financial records show Kobach received political contributions from US Immigration Reform Pac, a political action committee closely affiliated with John Tanton, a retired ophthalmologist who is known as the founder of the modern American anti-immigrant movement.
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In 2004, a $10,000 donation from US Immigration Reform Pac helped kickstart Kobach’s career. This year the group, which is run by Tanton’s wife, Mary Lou Tanton, donated $2,000 more to Kobach’s gubernatorial campaign. It has also contributed to the Iowa congressman Steve King, who has come under fire for his support of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Europe, and to Mo Brooks of Alabama, a Republican congressman who has said “illegal aliens are a plague on America”.
Kobach’s campaign has also received sporadic small donations of hundreds of dollars from Paul Nachman, who is described by the SPLC as a “Montana-based extremist who regularly writes for Vdare, an overtly racist blog that serves as a hub for white nationalists and antisemites”. The blog is named after Virginia Dare, who is believed to have been the first English child born in the Americas. Asked if he considered himself to be a white nationalist, Nachman responded in an email to the Guardian: “So you think someone who’s Jewish is a white nationalist?”
I fucking hate these Nazi scum!!
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