Right or wrong, an event that happened 12 years ago, by a first term state Senator trying to meet every single group in his district, gets asked to talk to a bunch of senior citizens, in the same tiny motel that other groups were using. He never gave it a thought, until some reporter says you were talking to a bunch of David Duke neo-nazis.
He probably could not legitimately remember a small event from 12 years ago and apologized because that happens to be the knee jerk reaction all Republicans give to this kind of attack.
Whether you like Scalise or not, if we allow the media to paint every single possible occurrence to nefarious motives, we will hamstring every single Conservative and Republican candidates.
You did not catch the information: Knight, a Duke/KKK operative, and the organizer of the KKK event was a friend and neighbor of Scalise for a long time.
The so-called ‘civic event’ was ALSO organized by Knight. He scheduled both for the same day, at the same place, AND he invited members of the KKK event to the first, so-called ‘civic event’. It was all about building in plausible deniability.
Tell me that is accidental and that Scalise didn’t know what his close friend and neighbor stood for?
Now, we have John Boehner, the 2nd in line to the presidency, the Speaker of the House, an experienced politician with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal. This well-funded, well-resourced Boehner chooses as his Lieutenant a man who tried to concoct a plausible deniability scheme so he could get funding from some Duke supporters.
Boehner put Scalise in position anyway, despite all that.
Boehner needs to go.