Steve Scalise defender's ties to white nationalist group closer than he disclosed, documents show
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Steve Scalise defender's ties to white nationalist group closer than he disclosed, documents show
Rebecca Catalanello, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Rebecca Catalanello, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on January 01, 2015 at 3:52 PM, updated January 01, 2015 at 4:37 PM
The David Duke associate who disavowed membership in a white nationalist group linked to U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was at one time an officer in that group, according to public records. Kenny Knight told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on Wednesday that he was not a member of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, but documents filed with the Louisiana secretary of state's office list him as treasurer of its predecessor, the National Organization for European American Rights, in 2000.
Duke, the Louisiana neo-Nazi and former politician, created the organization to espouse "white civil rights." Knight is a longtime Duke political adviser and friend.
Knight said he rented a meeting room for EURO in 2002 at the Landmark Hotel in Metairie as a favor for Duke, but he said he was not a member and did not line up speakers for its meeting. He said he arranged for Scalise, a Jefferson Republican then serving in the Legislature, to address their neighborhood group, the Jefferson Heights Civic Association, at the same location 2 and 1/2 hours before the EURO conference.
When asked by telephone Thursday about the records listing him as EURO's treasurer, Knight twice hung up on a reporter. "Is that 15 years ago? I don't even remember that," he said. "I'm not communicating any more with the news media. I'm finished with y'all."
Despite Knight's statements that Scalise addressed the neighborhood group, not EURO, the congressman himself both stated and apologized for his actions earlier this week "It was a mistake I regret and I emphatically oppose the divisive racial and religious views groups like these hold," he said Tuesday.
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