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| 2014-12-31 |
| Kenny Knight is a longtime associate of David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who ran for governor of Louisiana in 1991. He’s been a key player in news that broke on Sunday that indicated Scalise addressed the white supremacist convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization when he was a Louisiana state representative in May 2002. Another Rush-to-Judgement? Knight said on Tuesday that it’s “totally incorrect” to say Scalise spoke at that convention. Nope, Nope. Didn't happen. “He spoke early in the day to a contingent of people, prior to the conference kicking off,” Knight said. “He was not there as a guest speaker at the conference.” According to Knight, the EURO conference was slated to start in the early afternoon, roughly around 1 p.m. But his reservation at the hotel gave him access to the conference space for a few hours before the event’s official kickoff. At the time, Knight headed the Jefferson Heights Civic Association, which was largely comprised of elderly people who lived in his and Scalise’s neighborhood. Totally different from Duke's doings. Knight said he set up a morning event for his own civic association in the hotel space before the EURO conference started. Though that event was in the conference’s hospitality room, it wasn’t at all related to the EURO event, he said. “It was my room to do what I want with it,” he said. And if you can't believe a white supremacist, who can you believe? Knight invited then–state Rep. Scalise as well as a representative from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and a person from the American Red Cross to speak to the civic association at the hotel. Knight said he thinks the Red Cross speaker was from a local chapter but didn’t remember specifically. He also said he didn’t remember the names of either of the other speakers. The representative from the sheriff’s department spoke to attendees about a neighborhood watch program, and the person from the Red Cross discussed CPR techniques. Scalise also spoke. Much ado about nothing. We do need the names of the sheriff's rep and the ARC speaker. Journalists need to confirm, confirm, confirm -- unless of course it's in the way of the narrative... “I wanted to reach out to him and give him an audience so he could talk to people from his district about legislation he was proposing,” Knight said. “I did that as a courtesy.” |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #4 Steve Scalise Not Mentioned as Speaker in 2002 Press Release by White Supremacist Group |
| Posted by: Beavis 2014-12-31 16:36 |
| #3 Getting twitchy this morning? Early signs of coffee addiction |
| Posted by: Punky the Limber7961 2014-12-31 11:10 |
| #2 Getting twitchy this morning. Please remove double posting. Sorry. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-12-31 10:55 |
| #1 This story is getting far more traction than it deserves. If I were a conspiracy theory buff, I'd look for a Democrat behind this although that is not what is being reported. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-12-31 10:54 |