Democrat tipped blogger about Republican lawmaker meeting with white nationalists

[riversedge]

Source: Yahoo News


Democrat tipped blogger about Republican lawmaker meeting with white nationalists

Reuters
By Jonathan Kaminsky 8 hours ago



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Newly elected House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaks to the media as Speaker of the House John …

By Jonathan Kaminsky

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The campaign manager of a Democrat who challenged U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana tipped off a blogger that the Republican lawmaker had spoken to a white supremacist group in 2002.

However, Democrat Gilda Reed did not expose the meeting during the 2008 special election for the House seat because she believed it would not sway the district’s conservative electorate.

“I felt strongly that it would not have walked,” Reed told Reuters on Wednesday. "I was running in a district with a lot of bigots."

She lost to Scalise by more than 50 points.

Reed's son and 2008 campaign manager, Robert Reed, alerted left-leaning blogger, Lamar White Jr., who broke the story that has caused turmoil for Scalise, the No. 3 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives................

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/democrat-tipped-blogger-republican-lawmaker-meeting-white-nationalists-024824997.html

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Interesting to say the least.

[MADem]

1. She might as well have played the card before the vote.

“I felt strongly that it would not have walked,” Reed told Reuters on Wednesday. "I was running in a district with a lot of bigots."

She lost to Scalise by more than 50 points.

Didn't anyone in her outfit talk to her about how she was polling?

[shawn703]

11. She might have lost by another 10 points if she played that card

Such a story could be a great GOTV motivator for the bigots in that district, which she said there were a lot of.

[MADem]

13. In for a penny, in for a pound. If there are bigots abounding, she was toast anyway.

The question is, will this revelation make the constituents think about their attitudes, or will they double down and be proud of their racist proclivities?

[ImaPolitico]

20. ** Weeper Boehner seems to be proud doesn't he.**

[Turbineguy]

2. Gilda Reed played it rather well.

[Vinca]

3. Since David Duke and his associates implied other Republicans shared the same views

and they would "out" them if Scalise was ousted, I'm betting half the bloggers in the country are digging through records. 2015 could be more of a nightmare for the GOP than the citizens they wish to "govern" (aka "impoverish&quot .

[riversedge]

5. but perhaps these names are not limited to Republicans??

[Vinca]

6. True. There are some DINOs I might be suspicious off. And I'd like to know about them.

[riversedge]

9. 1plus

[Adrahil]

24. Don't care.. Expose all the racists to the light of day. n/t

[turbinetree]

4. RESIGN

This issue needs to be brought front and center and hold his feet need to held to the proverbial fire, everyday.
Since the DO NOTHING LEADER or Speakless Orange Drunk, "has the full faith and confidence" its time for his feet to be held to the proverbial fire, just imagine if it was a democrat, Pelosi and crew would have none of it and ask for the individual to head out the door and resign, and the republicans would still be DOING NOTHING but harping for political gain.
And these leaders in the right wing republican party and there propaganda information system like to remind everyone that the democrats supported slavery during the Civil War----really, why then did the south want to keep it?

[ImaPolitico]

21. Scalise and John Boehner should resign!

[Fred Sanders]

7. In the same district David Duke held in Louisiana it is essential to be a racist to win, she was not,

she was never going to win.

Scalise did what all candidates do in this and several other backward districts still in a Confederate time warp...nudge, nudge, wink, wink, I hate black folk as much as you.

And, being Catholic, more electable to higher positions, get it?

"Exposing" Scalise? WTF difference would it have made, everyone already knew!

Same as today, exposing racists in any party, what difference does it make? The media will cover it up, keep the rigged game close at least, massive ad money depends on the appearance of a contested prize.


Resign from his leadership post? How about resign from politics, a No Racists Allowed sign is still on the front yard of the WH, isn't it?

[TxVietVet]

8. I grew up in SE Texas, not far from Vidor. Home to the East Texas Klan.

I also visited the rural areas NE and North of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Conservatives, teabaggers and repulikkkans pander to these type groups. They give them the "guns, god, gays and n.....s and Mexicans" hate speech for votes. So, if some one were to investigate, I'm would not be surprised that most of the conservanazi republikkkans in Louisiana and Mississippi have visited those groups for votes.

Conservative Citizens Councils, EURO, kkklucker klubs, and wannabe militia warriors like 'oath' Keepers and such.

[riversedge]

10. Pelosi spokesman: Scalise revelations ‘deeply troubling’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/30/pelosi-spokesman-scalise-revelations-deeply-troubling/

Pelosi spokesman: Scalise revelations ‘deeply troubling’


By Ed O'Keefe December 30, 2014

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

A spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) calls House Majority Whip Steve Scalise's (R-La.) admission that he once spoke at a White nationalists convention "deeply troubling," but she isn't calling on him to relinquish his leadership position.

Scalise confirmed through an aide Monday that he once appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO. But the aide said the congressman didn’t know at the time about the group’s affiliation with racists and neo-Nazi activists.

In a statement, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill called Scalise's admission "deeply troubling for a top Republican leader in the House."

"However, actions speak louder than whatever Steve Scalise said to that group in 2002," he added. "Just this year, House Republicans have refused to restore the Voting Rights Act or pass comprehensive immigration reform and leading Republican members are now actively supporting in the federal courts efforts by another known extremist group, the American Center for Law and Justice, which is seeking to overturn the President’s immigration executive actions. Speaker Boehner’s silence on this matter is yet another example of his consistent failure to stand up to the most extreme elements of his party."

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[A Simple Game]

12. I don't see what the problem is?

I would think a racist would be the perfect candidate for a job with the word "whip" in the description.

For the impaired:

[blackspade]

14. This is just the M$M trying to change the narrative.....

To take the heat off of Scalise.
Never mind the details, a Democrat and a 'left leaning' blogger broke the story.....

This is about offuscating the fact that the rethug party is crawling with racists and bigots by making this a Democratic 'attack.'

Media assholes.

[ImaPolitico]

22. Yahoo Site Commenters are going crazy due a Dem broke this story.

Visited Yahoo site/comments today and for sure they are going after the Dem party for doing this. How obnoxious is Yahoo site? VERY.
I have been called every name in the book on that site for supporting the president.

[JackHughes]

15. Democratic campaign "strategy"

Drop the potentially damaging bombshell about one's opponent AFTER the election.

Brilliant.

[itsrobert]

16. 6 years after the election

even more brilliant

[TxVietVet]

17. 5 ways to figure out you're speaking to White Supremacist, Scalise.

First clue is: if David Duke founded the organization, that should be the biggest clue.

http://news.yahoo.com/five-ways-to-know-you-re-speaking-to-white-supremacists-004845526.html

[JI7]

18. maybe she would have had a chance if she was more liberal

[Thinkingabout]

19. In a racist district, no that would not have worked, it would only work against her more.

[ImaPolitico]

23. ** Scalise voted twice against making MLK Jr. a state holiday **

New U.S. House GOP Majority Whip Steve Scalise voted against making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a state holiday twice while he was in the Louisiana state legislature.