Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) breathed life into the decade-old controversy this week — and contributed to the demise of Scalise’s candidacy
Rep. Steve Scalise withdrew from his effort to be the new House speaker, leaving Republicans to start again on filling the job. Few members of the House Republican conference have demonstrated a knack and desire for making headlines like Rep. Nancy Mace .
Soon the man who invited Scalise to speak, longtime Duke political adviser Kenny Knight, told his version of the story. He said Scalise actually spoke at a separate event of Knight’s local civic organization at the same hotel earlier the same day as the conference. While acknowledging the audience included some EURO attendees, he said Scalise was likely unaware of the conference or that he was speaking to such people.
“Scalise accepted a shady acquaintance’s invitation to speak briefly about domestic policy before a civic association in a hotel that he should have known would host a white-supremacist conference later that day.”Part of the story here is how pervasive Duke once was in Scalise’s largely White district outside New Orleans. Scalise represents the area that in 1989, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, to the state legislature as a Republican.
Scalise in 1999 offered a somewhat similar comment to the one Grace recounted. While talking about a potential congressional campaign that Duke was also considering, Scalise pitched himself as more viable than Duke but with many of the same conservative policy views. Rather than focus on. “The voters in this district are smart enough to realize that they need to get behind someone who not only believes in the issues they care about, but also can get elected.
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