You Knew this Was Coming, Right?
The New York Times has an interesting story this morning:
The leader of a white supremacist group that has been linked to Dylann Roof, the suspect in the murder of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, including those of 2016 presidential contenders such as Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul, records show.
Cruz told the NYTimes last night that he would return the donation. Earl Holt III, of Texas of course, says he’s the leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens, but I suspect the correct spelling is Kouncil of Konservative Kitizens.
Dylann Roof says that Holt’s website is where he got his ideas about his fellow Americans. Holt seems pretty proud of that, saying, “it was one of the few that had the courage to disclose “the seemingly endless incidents involving black-on-white murder.”
Now you’re asking me how in the world would Ted Cruz know that Holt is a racist sumbitch? Well, to start with he has a website preaching hate and, secondly, he lists his occupation on his donation as “slumlord.” Seriously.
A note to Ted Cruz: Your only purpose in running for President is to feed your ego and embarrass Texas. We already have Rick Perry for that. Go home, Ted.
I know this has been asked before, but why do white supremacists all look like they just walked off a casting call for a Fellini movie?
1If there are SA residents reading, do you know if Earl Holt III is related to the Holts that own the Spurs and Caterpillar?
2http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/spring/the-rating-game/belligerent-broadcast
This guy was on the St Louis school board.
3He looks almost as creepy as Dylann Roof, only a little less dead in the eyes.
4OK, now we need an Earl Holt pinata so we can bash his head in.
5And of course, nothing will fall out.
From the looks of him, I suspect someone has already taken some practice wacks at him and connected more than a few! What smug dude he thinks he is!
6Major, major oops. Way too many pols have taken funds from this guy. I expect to see more of them come forward with notice of returned donations. If any of them hedge or reject on returns, then I thoroughly expect major media to make a real issue of it. If that doesn’t happen, I can only conclude that major media has some skin in the game with Holt. Loretta Lynch, are you listening?
7Yet another reason for publicly funded elections. Who has time these days to check every donor to make sure they aren’t pure evil? Oh, you’re supposed to have campaign staff to do that? Well, the heck you say. This is the cost of moving further and further to the right. You start getting in bed with some crazy crazy bed bugs.
8I’m sure the donation “returns” will come back properly laundered through some SuperPAC.
9What I cannot comprehend is why Democratic candidates do not relentlessly use occurrences like this as campaign issues. They offer up controversy on a silver platter. Simply and factually state their actions and repeat their words. For example, several years ago Steve King claimed that workers were mere commodities, used or discarded as necessary, according to the demands of the free market. Never heard a candidate repeat these comments! Cruz is the poster child for inane commentary and actions.
10Here is a link, if you wish. King is a piece of work, setting a “fine” example for other Republicans (ie Cruz, although I’m pretty certain he – Cruz – doesn’t require any assistance in that area.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/rep-steve-king-compares-workers-commodities
11http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/245683-cruz-returning-donation-from-leader-of-group-linked-to-sc
12J. T. you might be on to something.
Ted Cruz, darlin, it’s too late for you to make a display of integrity.
13dbtexas, I have had the same thought about why Dems didn’t immediately jump on the Citizens United repeal issue. They are now getting a little momentum, but the ruling was five years ago and we’ve mostly had silence.
My own theory is that modern day Dems are pussies. Remember Lyndon Johnson? That’s what Dems used to be like. They fought and they were willing to fight dirty if the other side did.
14None of the modern day Democrats I know are pussies. We keep trying things and then the other corporation/ party yanks things around so that every solution would take years to change. I’m not going to start my rant here, but speak for yourself. It’s at every level. Check the city/county equivalent to ALEC.
15And Earl Holt III gives me the willies.
16Is there a JJs anything in here about fair pay? This is a tiny rant. Saturday night, a friend of mine went with family to Olive Garden. (I havent encountered this but expect to). Now you order food yourself electronically and wait staff brings it. Surprised they don’t have conveyor belts bringing food to you. Quality and quantity are down. You have to figure how much you owe and pay electronically and you can’t make tips bigger so staff is surly. Not good. End of rant.
17The donations should serve as a “kiss of death” for candidates but the GOP will count them a positive.
18Yeah,but,Bill Clinton pardoned Mark Rich and received a large campaign donation from Rich’s wife,even though Lewis “Scooter” Libby was Rich’s attorney who petitioned Clinton for the pardon and then went on to write beastiality porn and serve as Darth Vader’s chief Lieutenant and outed Valerie Plame and got his sentence commuted by dumbass dubya. Clinton’s pardon was legal and before this one,pardons were considered none of Congresses business.
19Follow the money, right?
20So far all white supremacists look and sound like an ad for exactly the opposite point of view.
21Holt issued a statement distancing himself from Roof and his website, which the FBI is now investigating.
‘The CofCC is hardly responsible for the actions of this deranged individual merely because he gleaned accurate information from our website,’….. ‘Roof outlines other grievances felt by many whites. Again, we utterly condemn Roof’s despicable killings, but they do not detract in the slightest from the legitimacy of some of the positions he has expressed’.
(Holt wrpte last year on right wing ‘racial-realist’ site American Renaissance … that he was no longer going to donate to the Republican National Committee because of a policy of reaching out to black voters.)
http://www.nyooztrend.com/regional/334896-leader-of-group-praised-by-dylann-roof-donated-thousands-to-current-republican-presidential-candidates-while-spreading-racist-hate-online.html
22….shocked i tell ya. can’t believe it. tell me it’s not so. really???
23This is news? It is just confirmation.
24Peter Holt has two children, Peter John Holt and Corrina Holt Richter. As a man who once had 63 first cousins, I say Holt is absolved if the guy turns out to be a relative. Been there, done that.
25dbtexas, Mitt got it right back in his face on that self-deportation thing in the last Presidential election. The thing is, you gotta be careful just how and when you bring it right back to these jokers or else you run the risk of making them look like “martyrs”. I know. Doesn’t make all that much sense, does it?
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