Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke said in a radio interview that he might run for office against House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA).
Last month a liberal blogger broke the story that Rep. Scalise gave a speech in 2002 before the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) — a white supremacist group founded by Duke.
Scalise first said he didn’t remember speaking at the event. He later admitted remembering and said it was “a mistake I regret.” He then he went on to condemn the views held by such groups.
After the controversy became the talk of the nation, Duke told the that he supported Scalise and said he is a “nice guy.”
The former Grand Wizard has since changed his position on Scalise, calling him a “sell out” for apologizing about speaking to a group of racists.
Duke was a recent guest on the Louisiana radio program The Jim Engster Show and told Engster, “Steve Scalise, let me tell you something, this is the way I view it now: I mean this guy is a sellout. I mean he’s a sellout. He’s not David. He used to say that he was David Duke of course without the baggage, whatever that means.”
Duke continued,“The New York Times admitted that the Republican Party won office and got control of the United States House of Representatives, essentially on my political issues. Opposed to the massive illegal immigration, the issues of welfare reform, so many other issues that I’ve talked about, but the difference is with someone like me Steve Scalise, or David Vitter, you know the prostitution king. The difference between myself and those guys is that I did not sellout. I’ve never sold out…”
Scalise’s apology and rejection of the views held by the white-supremacist group offended Duke.
“He said specifically that he shouldn’t have gone to the European American Unity and Rights Organization. That he shouldn’t have done it, it was a terrible mistake. He shouldn’t…what he’s basically saying is that 60% of his district, the same people, by the way, who voted for him, that they’re just nothing but a bunch of racists. You know, I’ve said nothing at that conference any different that I ran for office on. It wasn’t a Klan meeting. It wasn’t any sort of a radical meeting, it was a meeting that said there was European American rights, right? So he is a sellout, right? Because, you know he can’t meet with members of his own district who have opinions like I have but he meets with radical blacks who have total opposite political positions than him.”
Duke is so irritated by the whole situation, he called for Scalise to resign and said, “I am not registered to vote right now. I have legally been able to vote for years but I haven’t registered right now and I’d be able to vote for, but I might just register. Just so, I might have to run against Steve Scalise because you know, I really might. I mean, I’m definitely going to consider it because its so disgusting to me to see…he got elected on false pretenses.
“He elected supposedly David Duke without the baggage but he is not David Duke, and he certainly doesn’t —he’s basically, condemning the people of his district who voted overwhelmingly for me to be their US senator and voted to be their governor. He’s insulting every one of the members who actually voted for him because he is suggesting to they’re racist because they supported my views. So that’s the thing, again I call on him to step down. He should step down because he has betrayed, he has betrayed his people. that’s the difference between, see they always talk about the fact that the Republican Party’s issues are my issues. The difference with me in the Republican Party is that I didn’t betray them when I got elected.”
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