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Related: About this forumMississippi Tea Party (U.S.) Senate Challenger Attended Neo-Confederate Gatherings
Mississippi Tea Party Senate Challenger Attended Neo-Confederate Gatherings
Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel (R), the recently announced primary challenger for Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss) Senate seat, spoke at a neo-Confederate conference in Laurel, Mississippi in August, according to Mother Jones.
The conference was hosted by the Jones County Rosin Heels, a local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Invitations for the event described it as a "Southern Heritage Conference" intended for "politically incorrect folks." Actually, Mother Jones also noted, that event was the second Jones County Rosin Heels event he recently attended. In June McDaniel was the keynote speaker at the Division Reunion in Jackson, also hosted by the Jones County Rosin Heels.
The Jones County Heels have been pretty clear about its secessionist sentiments, Mother Jones further noted. The group's newsletter said in September said that "we are living in the times that Jefferson Davis predicted would one day come" where the disagreements that resulted in the Civil War arose again.
McDaniel is considered a top-tier challenger to Cochran. Almost immediately after he entered the race, he was endorsed by the Senate Conservatives Fund, The Madison Project and the Club for Growth.
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Full article here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mississippi-tea-party-senate-challenger-attended-neo-confederate-gatherings
Additional info regarding The Senate Conservative Fund here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251330366
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Mississippi Tea Party (U.S.) Senate Challenger Attended Neo-Confederate Gatherings (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Oct 2013
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ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)1. I would be shocked if he hadn't. Of course he did.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. That will just attract more of the bigots' votes and money.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)3. Of course he did.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. Aren't they the same thing?
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)5. Not a surprise for a teabagger or any republican for that matter.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)6. They're going to get bolder and bolder about this sort of thing. n/t
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)7. Social media is forcing a change in how to be a bigot, or at least driving it further underground.
And who would have thought a decade or so ago, that Mother Jones would have a place at the media table.