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By Ashton Pittman Friday, November 16, 2018 4:55 p.m. CST
JACKSONU.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-Smiths 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/
underpants
(182,788 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)And then wonder why we think Mississippi is Americas asshole.
dalton99a
(81,468 posts)Court documents reveal Zieves 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 Scotts U.S. Senate campaign in Florida, Marsha Blackburns U.S. Senate campaign in Tennessee, Martha McSallys 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 Moores failed bid for U.S. Senate in Alabama. That year, the PAC used Trumps attacks on black NFL players to boost fundraising and help Moores campaign.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)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)https://www.electroimpact.com/Company/About.aspx
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)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 ....................
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)What is wrong with us?
SMH