White supremacist donated to King and Sen Cutyernutzoff

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Ernst and King both accepted donations from an extremist. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

A Texan whose white supremacist writings apparently inspired a South Carolina church shooting last week has donated tens of thousands of dollars to top Republicans, including Iowans U.S. Rep. Steve King and U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst.

Earl P. Holt III, 62, made five donations of $500 each, totaling $2,500, to King between Sept. 30, 2012, and Oct. 6, 2014, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. King, R-Kiron, has been representing northwestern Iowa in Congress since 2002.

Holt made one $1,000 donation to Ernst, R-Red Oak, on Sept. 27.

Holt is president of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a Missouri-based activist group cited in a manifesto believed to have been written by Dylann Roof, accused of fatally shooting nine people last Wednesday during a prayer meeting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The manifesto said the author first learned of “brutal black-on-white murders” from the council, the New York Times reported.

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1. I noticed Rob Portman and Josh Mandel on the list for Ohioans.

Last I heard Portman was behind Strickland in the polls, which would be good. Losing his Senate seat will help derail his Presidential ambitions.

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2. Ha! I didn't know Mandel received CCC money as well.

He is a huge fund-raiser.
He has huge political ambitions.
Such a pity he was re-elected last fall.