AL Senate race - Roy Moores Neo-Confederate Sugar Daddy Has Deep Ties To Secessionists

[KelleyKramer]

Roy Moore’s Neo-Confederate Sugar Daddy Has Deep Ties To Secessionists

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/roy-moores-sugar-daddy-has-deep-ties-to-secessionists





Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore’s top supporter is a hardline Confederate sympathizer with longtime ties to a secessionist group.

Michael Anthony Peroutka (pictured on the right above, with Moore in 2011) has given Moore, his foundation and his campaigns well over a half-million dollars over the past decade-plus. He’s also expressed beliefs that make even Moore’s arguably theocratic anti-gay and anti-Muslim views look mainstream by comparison. Chief among them: He’s argued that the more Christian South needs to secede and form a new Biblical nation.

The close connections raise further questions about the racial and religious views of Moore, the former Alabama supreme court chief justice and the front-runner to become Alabama’s next U.S. senator.

There’s a long history of southern conservative politicians playing footsie with fringe groups that hold controversial views on race. But that’s become more fraught in recent years as the advent of YouTube, camera phones and campaign trackers has made it harder to keep those meetings quiet. It’s also become more controversial to speak to Confederate groups in recent years as parts of the South have changed and in the wake of murderous racist violence in Charleston and Charlottesville. But even by the old standards, Moore’s deep ties to Peroutka — and Peroutka’s views — stand out, as most of those groups weren’t actively calling for the South to secede again.


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there is much more on the link and I highly recommend TPM ....

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/roy-moores-sugar-daddy-has-deep-ties-to-secessionists


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[sharp_stick]

1. I'm damned near

the point where I'm cool with these secessionist assholes going for it.

We give people a year to get out then cancel the passports of the rest. Good luck with the newest third world country on earth.

[spanone]

2. 100% knuckle dragging pieces of shit

[Wounded Bear]

3. Seccession plays well in the deep south...