'I will vote for Leader Jeffries and continue my work building bridges between marginalized communities to dismantle the systems of white supremacy enabling violence against our communities,' said Rep. Summer Lee.
Louisiana GOP Congressman Steve Scalise—infamously accused of once calling himself 'David Duke without the baggage,' referring to a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard—on Thursday night dropped his bid to become the next speaker of the U.S House of Representatives.'It's been quite a journey and there's still a long way to go.
'Scalise disavowed Duke then, as he did once again this week, when blogger Lamar White Jr. revealed that Scalise had spoken in 2002 at a meeting hosted by a Duke-founded white nationalist group.' The Washington Post reported that same week in 2014 that Scalise 'confirmed through an adviser that he once appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO.
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