Trump ally Kris Kobach accepted donations from white nationalists
Source: Guardian
The Republican candidate for governor of Kansas has accepted thousand of dollars in donations, and has for over a decade been affiliated with groups espousing white supremacist views
Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
@skirchy Email
Mon 5 Nov 2018 01.00 EST
The Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, Kris Kobach, who has close ties to the Trump administration, has accepted financial donations from white nationalist sympathizers and has for more than a decade been affiliated with groups espousing white supremacist views.
Recent financial disclosures show that Kobach, a driving force behind dozens of proposals across the US designed to suppress minority voting and immigrant rights, has accepted thousands of dollars from white nationalists. Donors include a former official in the Trump administration who was forced to resign from the Department of Homeland Security this year after emails showed he had close ties to white supremacists and once engaged in an email exchange about a dinner party invitation that was described as Judenfrei, or free of Jews.
Now Kansas secretary of state, Kobach is running in a tight race against the Democrat Laura Kelly. The election has drawn the concern of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), after the single polling place located in Dodge City was moved outside the town, in what some claimed to be an attempt to suppress the Hispanic vote.
Kobach, who was vice-chairman of the Trump administrations now disbanded election-fraud commission, is known for his zero-tolerance approach to undocumented migrants and his staunch support for voter ID laws, which critics say unfairly and illegally target minority voters.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/05/trump-ally-kris-kobach-donations-white-nationalists
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)who did anyone think was giving him money?
AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)you beat me to it!!!
William Seger
(10,779 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Disgusting, yes.
CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)Off to THE GREATEST PAGE for this piece of *shocking* info!
DUMP TRAITOR TRUMP !!!!!
& recommend !!
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)After he gathered all the votes from despicables, homophobes, and religious kooks, now he's hoovering up the remaining Nazis.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)When he supports their causes like trump does , and gets campaign funds from them . Trump is one too, and has sent numerous people working for him around the world to meet with them. Bannon and Ghouliani both have had meetings with these neo nazi's. Its not your mothers republican party any more, they're just hate groups, and corrupt criminals.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)What's this "some claimed" bullshit?
THIS is the kind of chickenshit reporting that should drive everyone-anyone- nuts. There is no doubt here. It's not a matter of who is claiming what. It's outright election fraud. Kobach is a white racist who is denying Hispanics the right to vote. Period.
If his illegal behavior isn't called into account, and he's not arrested and sent into jail without bond, then he should lose the election anyway. He's part of the tyranny by white supremacists, and he ought to be dragged through the streets and pummeled by citizens BEFORE going to jail. (OH, I know it's hyperbole, but it's a wonderful visual.)