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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 10:37 AM Nov 2018

Hyde-Smith Accepts $2,700 Donation from Notorious White Supremacist

By Ashton Pittman Friday, November 16, 2018 4:55 p.m. CST

JACKSON—U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith accepted a donation from Peter Sieve, a businessman in Washington state known for his white supremacist views, just days after a video published by Bayou Brief surfaced in which she says she would be “on the front row” if a supporter invited her to “a public hanging.”

Zieve donated $2,700, the max donation an individual can make, to Hyde-Smith’s campaign on Nov. 14. Progressive newsletter Popular Info first reported the donation, which came three days progressive blogger Lamar White published the video on the Bayou Brief on Nov. 11.

Zieve Paid Staff to Procreate, Called Immigrants ‘Rubbish’

The State of Washington sued Zieve in 2011 for refusing to hire Muslims at his business, Electroimpact. He required applicants to submit photos of themselves, documents show.

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/nov/16/hyde-smith-accepts-2700-donation-notorious-white-s/

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Hyde-Smith Accepts $2,700 Donation from Notorious White Supremacist (Original Post) turbinetree Nov 2018 OP
Come on, in Mississippi!??!? underpants Nov 2018 #1
They'll elect this racist fuck... Adrahil Nov 2018 #7
Zieve donated over $1 million to Donald Trump in 2016. dalton99a Nov 2018 #2
I really would like to know if Boeing is buying his products ................... turbinetree Nov 2018 #3
All the big names use him: dalton99a Nov 2018 #4
What is remarkable from the list is that Boeing, (since he is based in Washington) turbinetree Nov 2018 #5
Worst of the worst leading our country ProudLib72 Nov 2018 #6
 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
7. They'll elect this racist fuck...
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 11:37 AM
Nov 2018

And then wonder why we think Mississippi is America’s asshole.

dalton99a

(81,468 posts)
2. Zieve donated over $1 million to Donald Trump in 2016.
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 10:45 AM
Nov 2018
Zieve donated over $1 million to Donald Trump in 2016.

Court documents reveal Zieve’s employees regularly engaged in anti-Muslim rhetoric.

“How do you save half the Muslims? Kill the other half,” one employee wrote in a company “jokes” listserv. In December 2015, Zieve sent an email to the listserv saying “American born Muslims are almost as dangerous as the Syrian imports.”

Zieve settled the lawsuit for $485,000 in 2017 and issued an apology.

Afterward, he made a run for Mukilteo City Council in Washington, and part of his platform included a plank to “strengthen public safety in response to transient and criminal populations moving into Mukilteo.” He attacked his opponent for neither being married nor having kids. He lost after winning 33 percent of the vote.

In 2016, Zieve admitted he was behind a campaign to stop construction of a mosque in Mukilteo.

Zieve made maximum donations to other Republican candidates this year, including to Rick Scott’s U.S. Senate campaign in Florida, Marsha Blackburn’s U.S. Senate campaign in Tennessee, Martha McSally’s U.S. Senate campaign in Arizona, and dozens more. His donations to GOP candidates go back decades.

He is one of the top donors to Solution Fund, a Louisiana-based Super PAC that in 2017 supported Republican Roy Moore’s failed bid for U.S. Senate in Alabama. That year, the PAC used Trump’s attacks on black NFL players to boost fundraising and help Moore’s campaign.

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
3. I really would like to know if Boeing is buying his products ...................
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 10:53 AM
Nov 2018

if so there needs to a public campaign on this jerk.................and to have Boeing and Airbus not be buying his product, his product is the saddle or tool that is used in the drilling process for rivets....................."Electroimpact"


And "Airbus" is planted in Alabama .............................

https://www.electroimpact.com/AssemblySolutions.aspx

dalton99a

(81,468 posts)
4. All the big names use him:
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 11:14 AM
Nov 2018
This unique approach has resulted in Electroimpact growing to become the largest integrator of aircraft assembly lines in the world. Our customer base includes Airbus, Boeing, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Fuji Heavy Industries, Spirit Aerospace, Vought, Northrop-Grumman, Israeli Aircraft Industries, Xi’an Aircraft of China, Bombardier, and Embraer among others. Electroimpact is as well-versed in smaller product solutions as we are in some of the largest tooling jobs in the world.

https://www.electroimpact.com/Company/About.aspx

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
5. What is remarkable from the list is that Boeing, (since he is based in Washington)
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 11:31 AM
Nov 2018

is that every year as an employee you had to sign paperwork on workplace diversity and the business ethics of the company to operate under to be in compliance with federal laws, since they get subsidies from taxpayers and such.

And even those on your list to operate in this country must comply with those laws, so these firms are basically supporting a racist and bigot, who then turns right around and gives money that he got from them to go and support a racists and bigots around the country, and then in there way of thinking, that the bottom line is to have product made cheaper, while violating the laws and then turning a blind eye, while inside the business model it's basically all front of BS, and they can go around and say they didn't know ........................go figure ....................

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