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« on: December 29, 2014, 04:10:25 PM »
WaPo has the full story. It was a Duke front group.
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« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2014, 07:01:33 PM »
Scalise spoke to Roll Call about Duke in 1999.
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« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2014, 07:18:16 PM »
Villere and Jindal are standing by Scalise.
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« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2014, 07:40:14 PM »
Richmond is also defending Scalise, saying he knows he doesn't have a racist bone in his body and won't allow him to be made a scapegoat.
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« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2014, 08:35:14 PM »
Scalise speaks to the Times-Picayune. Emphasis mine.

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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2014, 08:50:20 PM »
Duke speaks to WaPo. Says he knows Scalise "a very nice guy" and that 2 of Duke's longtime associates invited Scalise to that conference. While Duke himself spoke via teleconference, he did know Scalise was invited.
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« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2014, 09:07:53 PM »
Duke says he doesn't know whether Scalise knew what the conference was about. But even if you didn't know, how else could the name "European-American Unity and Rights Organization" be interpreted other than as a white supremacist group?
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« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2014, 11:48:00 PM »
Duke tells WaPo that he doesn't think there's video of the conference.
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« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2014, 12:10:44 AM »
Duke tells WaPo that while he and Scalise didn't have a personal relationship, Scalise knew and was friendly with his campaign manager in '02, and that's why Scalise was invited to the conference.
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« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2014, 12:25:48 AM »
Duke threatens to reveal all the pols in both parties who've associated with him if Scalise isn't treated fairly.

The Duke aide who Scalise knew, Kenny Knight, donated to Scalise's '08 campaign/
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« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2014, 02:01:00 PM »
Boehner and McCarthy say they fully support Scalise.
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« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2014, 02:49:18 PM »
Quote from: Invisible Obama on December 30, 2014, 02:09:40 PM
If a transcript pops up, this whole thing will blow up in Boehner's face big time. It's already bad enough as it, Democrats have a huge talking point now.

We know he was talking about the state budget.
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« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2014, 11:23:05 PM »
Slate says Scalise spoke to another, totally unrelated conference just before Duke's.
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