So a chance to heal the Speaker of the House position with someone rumored to have roots with the KKK. Good going Republicans dig your hole deeper and keep wondering why people call you the party of racists.
"House staff members, who asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that Scalise is preparing a run for majority leader. And Jack Pandol, spokesman for Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, said his boss met with Scalise and pledged to support his candidacy for majority leader.
That means likely candidates for House speaker are current Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who has been leading a coalition of conservative members insisting that Boehner and other GOP leaders take a hard line on defunding Planned Parenthood, even it means a government shutdown.
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Scalise would likely have solid support for the speaker's post. He has largely rebounded, at least with the GOP membership, from negative news reports in late 2014 following revelations that he had spoken to members of a white supremacist group linked to David Duke in 2002 when he was a state representative. But it's also likely that some colleagues wouldn't want to make him the face of the House GOP leadership given that controversy."
Read more: Steve Scalise to run for House majority leader, sources say
You guys are so silly….your racists are just out in the open and you don't care…….our guys…stumble into some situation and you guys hang them for it….
Bill, the rapist, clinton..his actual political mentor was racist, segregationist, J. William Fulbright….an actual, racist pig….and he was a close personal friend of bill the rapist clinton…and he even gave they guy a Presidential medal of freedom and dedicated a statue to him…..
And your current President….obama…sat in an actual, openly racist church for 20 years…and let the racist pastor, jeremiah wright marry him and his wife and baptize their children….
You guys don't even realize how racist the democrat party actually is…….it is like completely beyond you…….
the last two democrat Presidents were openly racist…...
No one in the Democratic party is trying to keep their head above the fray, they know they have been bad at race relations and continually try to repair problems. The difference is the Republican party has a voting record about race relations they would rather not talk about and deny that they are racist at all. You people must think people are stupid and can't read or see the truth. The Democratic Party has skeletons, no doubt. The Republican Party hasn't even reached the stage where they want to talk about it.
by voting record you mean ending slavery and voting for every single civil rights legislation ?
Oh, if only you could keep it at that. LOL
Stopped reading at slavery, didn't ya?