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Fast Money & Foreign Objects
White Supremacist Linked to Charleston Suspect Donated to 2016 G.O.P. Campaigns
By ERIC LICHTBLAUJUNE 22, 2015
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By ERIC LICHTBLAUJUNE 22, 2015
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- Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul, records show.
Mr. Cruz, a Texas senator, said Sunday night that he would be returning about $8,500 in donations that he had received from the Texas donor, Earl **** III, who lists himself as president of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
“We just learned this evening that Mr. **** had contributed to the campaign,” a spokesman for the Cruz campaign said in an email to The New York Times. “We will be immediately refunding all those donations.”
The Guardian first reported on Mr. ****’s donations to the Republican contenders.
Mr. ****, in a statement posted online in his name, said he was not surprised to learn that Mr. Roof had found out about “black-on-white violent crime” from his group because, he said, it was one of the few that had the courage to disclose “the seemingly endless incidents involving black-on-white murder.” But he said his group does not advocate violence and should not be held responsible for the shootings.
The group is regarded by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a leading authority on hate crimes, as a white supremacist extremist organization that opposes “race mixing” as a religious affront and that vilifies blacks as an inferior race.
Spokesmen for Mr. Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, and Mr. Paul, a senator from Kentucky, did not respond to requests for comment on the donations.
Mr. ****, who identified himself in some donation records as a Texas “slumlord,” has also given money to a number of other current and former Republican members of Congress, including Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, former Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Representative Steve King of Iowa, and former Representative Todd Akin of Missouri.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/u...te-supremacist.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Politics as usual.
Imagine that!
