Scott Walker to forfeit donations from group cited in Dylann Roof 'manifesto'

[BeyondGeography]

Source: The Guardian

Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has become the latest Republican presidential hopeful to forfeit thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the leader of a rightwing group said to have influenced the Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof.

Following an inquiry from the Guardian, a spokeswoman for Walker said he would be giving up money he received in recent years from Earl Holt, the president of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC). “The governor will be donating this money to charity,” the spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, said in an email.

Walker, who is expected to officially join the 2016 party primary contest soon, received $3,500 for gubernatorial campaigns in his state from Holt, whose activist organisation is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The author of a manifesto that surfaced on a website registered in Roof’s name and hosting photographs of the 21-year-old said he had been influenced by the CofCC website. “At this moment I realized that something was very wrong,” the text said.

The Wisconsin governor’s decision follows similar moves by senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, both candidates for the presidential nomination, who received more than $10,000 between them from Holt, who has also posted dozens of racist comments online.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/scott-walker-republican-dylann-roof-manifesto

[Scuba]

1. Said Walker: "I had no idea ...

... that this would ever be exposed."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Doesn't matter.

The fact that CofCC's leader supported Wanker in the first place tells you where he's coming from - somewhere on the same spectrum of thought that inspired a guy go out and kill black people in order to start a race war.

[livetohike]

3. Exactly! Now I wonder how many more of these CCC types have donated to the campaigns and who will

root them out. Hopefully, there are people working on this and will expose it all.

[bluevoter4life]

4. Money should be donated to the NAACP

Right winger heads would explode. Wishful thinking I know, but a guy can hope right?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

Now that it's election season they're going to clean up their prejudice damn fast, aren't they?

[rocktivity]

6. THIS is why there's been so much GOP media posturing

about the Confederate flag coming down!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026872573


rocktivity

[dbackjon]

7. Too late asshole

You knew what they were years ago.

[TimeToEvolve]

8. too late

"sorry doesn't put thumbs back on the hand, Marge!"