White supremacist campaign donations: How did Republicans not know? (+video)/CSM

No wonder the RNC is jumping on the bandwagon to remove the flag.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/0622/White-supremacist-campaign-donations-How-did-Republicans-not-know-video


Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Rick Santorum all got donations from Earl Holt III, head of a white supremacist group that appeared to inspire Dylann Roof.


Washington — Why didn’t Ted Cruz (or Rand Paul or Rick Santorum) know that campaign donor Earl Holt III is the president of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist organization?

That is one of many questions, following the revelation that all three Republican candidates for president – and many other GOP politicians, dating back at least to 2004 – accepted donations from Mr. Holt. The British newspaper the Guardian broke the story Sunday.

Holt’s racist writings came to light following last week’s massacre at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The alleged shooter, Dylann Roof, was apparently influenced by Holt. A website registered to Mr. Roof contained a manifesto crediting the Council of Conservative Citizens for the author’s knowledge of “brutal black-on-white murders.”


Which goes back to the donations – and how the Republican Party, already struggling to attract minority voters, can overcome this public-relations blow.