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December 30, 2014

House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise Spoke at White Supremacist Summit in 2002 
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One of the top Republicans in Congress has acknowledged he spoke to a
gathering of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002 while he was
serving as a state representative in Louisiana. Rep. Steve Scalise, who
serves as House majority whip, has confirmed reports he spoke at a
convention organized by the European-American Unity and Rights
Organization, or EURO, founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Scalise told the New Orleans Times-Picayune he did not recall the
conference and "didn't know who all of these groups were." "For anyone
to suggest that I was involved with a group like that is insulting and
ludicrous," Scalise said.

 

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