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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Dec 18, 2016, 12:16 PM Dec 2016

Interior Pick Rep. Zinke Connected To White Nationalists In Montana

Source: The National Memo

Travis Gettys

December 18, 2016 7:39 am

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Interior has gotten donations from white supremacists and endorsed them in political races.

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), like chief of staff Steve Bannon, brings troubling ties to organized hate groups to the Republican president-elect’s inner circle, reported Fusion.

Zinke made news during his 2014 election campaign when he accepted a $500 donation from Earl Holt, head of the Council of Conservative Citizens, whose writings about “brutal black on white murders” inspired Dylann Roof, who gunned down nine black worshipers the following year in a Charleston, South Carolina, church. A spokeswoman for Zinke later said the congressman would donate that contribution to a fund for the victims’ families.

The website also reported he co-sponsored legislation to designate English as the official language in the U.S., and he discussed the bill in an interview with the anti-immigrant ProEnglish organization, which has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Read more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/interior-pick-rep-zinke-connected-white-nationalists-montana/

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Interior Pick Rep. Zinke Connected To White Nationalists In Montana (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2016 OP
So... Johnyawl Dec 2016 #1
These people being appointed CountAllVotes Dec 2016 #2
Gale Norton shadowmayor Dec 2016 #3
even if the Trump admin goes down in FLAMES DonCoquixote Dec 2016 #4
HA!!! cntrfthrs Dec 2016 #5
I wish you luck with that, sincerely DonCoquixote Dec 2016 #6

shadowmayor

(1,325 posts)
3. Gale Norton
Sun Dec 18, 2016, 01:40 PM
Dec 2016

She knows all about the CCC. She must be so proud - what a legacy: Watt to Norton to Zinke - it's a trifecta!

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
4. even if the Trump admin goes down in FLAMES
Sun Dec 18, 2016, 03:51 PM
Dec 2016

The Kluxers and Neo nazis got a bretah of fresh air, and they know it. How long till the Bundys get control of the Indian reservations?

cntrfthrs

(252 posts)
5. HA!!!
Sun Dec 18, 2016, 11:33 PM
Dec 2016

they come into our lands and pull their sh*t...we'll dump em over the reservation line with no guns,pants or hair.....

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
6. I wish you luck with that, sincerely
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 12:55 AM
Dec 2016

But you know that is on the menu, especially as few things would be a victory lap like Ammon Bundy taking the rez.

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