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Here is the sixty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is US House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA). He is so honored for keeping the KKK in GOP.<\/font><\/p>\n \u201cI honestly think his 15 minutes of fame have come and gone,\u201d said state Rep. David Vitter (R), a wealthy Metairie attorney who holds Duke\u2019s old seat in the state House and is \u201cseriously considering\u201d a Congressional bid. \u201cWhen he\u2019s competed in a field with real conservatives, real Republicans, Duke has not done well at all.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n Another potential candidate, state Rep. Steve Scalise (R), said he embraces many of the same \u201cconservative\u201d views as Duke, but is far more viable.<\/font><\/p>\n \u201cThe novelty of David Duke has worn off,\u201d said Scalise. \u201cThe 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. Duke has proven that he can\u2019t get elected, and that\u2019s the first and most important thing.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n …Scalise addressed Duke\u2019s European-American Unity and Rights Organization back in 2002<\/a><\/font>…<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Roll Call<\/a>><\/p>\n The Republican leadership has accepted Scalise\u2019s disingenuous excuse, that he did not know. How pathetic! That an LA politician to claim ignorance that Duke was Clan could not be more incredible. Even Diaper Dave knew that Scalise embraces Duke\u2019s racist values. But then, every time a black voter is turned away from the voting booth, it proves that those are also the values of the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is the sixty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is US House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA). He is so honored for keeping the KKK in GOP. Back in 1999, Roll Call interviewed white supremacist leader David Duke about the possibility […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Back in 1999, Roll Call interviewed white supremacist leader David Duke about the possibility he would seek the House seat vacated by the resignation of Republican Rep. Bob Livingston. As part of that report, reporter John Mercurio also talked to up-and-coming Louisiana politicians, current Sen. David Vitter and current House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.<\/font><\/p>\n