Barbour's Racist Links Tar Bush Too

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Barbour's Racist Links Tar Bush Too

by Derrick Z. Jackson

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1022-02.htm

"...Barbour is the former chairman of the Republican National Committee who is running for governor of Mississippi. In mid-September Bush spoke at a fund-raiser for Barbour in Jackson, Miss., that attracted 1,100 people and raised at least $1.2 million. At the luncheon, Bush said he was "proud to be on stage with the future Mississippi governor." Bush continued: "I know him. This isn't just your typical hot air. I know him well. He recounted some of our history. We've been friends for a long time. . . . he never forgot his roots."

Some of Barbour's roots were exposed this month when it was reported that a photo of Barbour is on the home page of the Council of Conservative Citizens, the racist group that is an offshoot of the old segregationist white citizens councils that tried to hold back the civil rights movement. The photo was taken at a county political barbecue. Barbour is pictured along with five other men, including CCC field director Bill Lord. The CCC gained notoriety in the mid-1990s when it became known that Trent Lott, the former Senate majority leader, also from Mississippi, had spoken before it. Nothing has changed about the CCC. Its website is full of direct links to blatant racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

The home page features an article titled "In Defense of Racism." The article maintains that "certain racial groups show a marked proclivity for physical violence. Generally, those racial groups possess lower IQs. . . . No amount of learning, welfare, affirmative action, or socialization will interfere with the behavioral response of lower IQ races. . . . Blacks, who are given to physical violence at a rate 50 times that of whites, Mexicans, and certain Pacific Islanders, are among these groups."

"...Particularly galling is that Barbour has refused to ask the CCC to take the photo of him off its home page. "I don't care who has my picture," Barbour was quoted as saying in an Associated Press article. He continued: "Once you start down the slippery slope of saying `That person can't be for me,' then where do you stop? Old segregationists? Former Ku Klux Klan like Robert Byrd?"

That tired reference to the Democratic senator from West Virginia, who, like President Johnson, matured out of his racist roots to support policies meant to overcome the effects of racism, cannot mask the fact that Barbour is in bed with today's segregationists. It cannot mask the fact that the Republican Party, at its root, cannot kick today's racists out of bed..."

- You remember good old Haley? He was part of the money laundering scheme in the 90s that recieved 'loans' from foreign front companies without any assets...and promptly fed them to the GOP coffers.

- Barbour is among a group of powerful Republicans...including Trent Lott... with direct ties to racist groups. They should be called on these relationships and asked to explain the extent of their involvement and support.

[Stephanie]

1. It's just incredible. Isn't the CCC just another version of the KKK?

How can this still be going on?

Can you tell us more about Barbour's financial scandal? I don't remember that.

[Q]

4. Former GOP chairmen contradicts Barbour's testimony

- This is one (about Barbour) I found in my archives...but apparently lost the link.


Former GOP chairmen contradicts Barbour's testimony

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Copyright © 1997 Associated Press

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WASHINGTON -- Point by point, a previous GOP leader contradicted former party chairman Haley Barbour's contention that he didn't seek foreign money to help the party take back Congress in 1994. Former party chairman Richard Richards testified at the Senate's fund-raising hearings Friday that Barbour told him a $2.1 million loan Richards helped negotiate was intended to finance GOP congressional campaigns.Richards said Barbour told him the loan was "an urgent thing" because "he needed to withdraw RNC monies" previously lent to a GOP think tank. "'He said that the purpose was to assist in the election of 60 potential new congressmen," said Richards, who headed the party in the early 1980s.

Senate Democrats pointed to what they called glaring inconsistencies between Barbour's account of the loan transaction and the versions of several other witnesses. "We have some very significant contradictions," Carl Levin of Michigan said during a break in Richards' testimony. But Ed Gillespie, a spokesman for Barbour, said the former GOP chairman "never told Dick Richards that the loan guarantee was to help the RNC win 60 House seats." Besides disavowing the loan's connection with campaign needs, Barbour testified Thursday that he didn't know the money was from a Hong Kong business owned by Ambrous Tung Young. He said he thought it was from a U.S. subsidiary of the firm.

Like several other witnesses, Richards said he told Barbour before the loan was made in October 1994 that the collateral would come from Hong Kong. "I told him the money would be transferred from Young Brothers Hong Kong to Young Brothers (USA)," Richards said. Richards' testimony concluded three days of Senate hearings on Republican fund-raising abuses. The GOP think tank, the National Policy Forum, paid $1.6 million to an RNC account used to help state party organizations. Once transferred to the state parties, money could be used for get-out-the-vote efforts and other campaign-related expenses. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said it was clear "money starting out in Hong Kong ended up in an American campaign." Richards said he advised Barbour in 1995 against asking Young to forgive the loan guarantee. "I said don't do that, it would be offensive to Mr. Young and it was offensive to me." The request was made anyway, and Young refused it, telling Richards "he wanted to be helpful to the party but he couldn't forgive the loan."

After the loan went into default, Richards tried to collect Young's forfeited collateral because Barbour had promised the party would make good on any loss. Barbour told him, "I am not going to pay a soft money loan with hard money," Richards said. "I said, 'Mr. Chairman, I don't care what you pay it with, we simply want you to pay the loan."' "I was quite disappointed in that," Richards said. The RNC eventually agreed to pay $745,000 to cover less than half the forfeited collateral. "If it wasn't felt there was an obligation, they shouldn't have paid back half of it," said Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., the panel's chairman. RNC spokeswoman Mary Crawford the RNC had no plans to repay Young the additional $800,000. "If there is an obligation, that obligation clearly belongs with the NPF, not the RNC," Crawford said. The policy forum no longer exists.

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6. The Barbourous One got the Rush justice:

Barbour May Face Indictment
By Pierre Thomas/CNN

WASHINGTON (Feb. 26) -- Haley Barbour, the former head of the Republican National Committee (RNC), may soon find out if he will be the subject of a Justice Department indictment.

Justice attorneys are at a critical stage in deciding whether Barbour should be indicted on election law violations, CNN has learned.

At issue is whether a non-profit research group founded by Barbour, The National Policy Forum, provided an illegal flow of overseas cash to the GOP in 1994. That is the year the Republicans took control of Congress.

more
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/26/barbour/


If you can't beat 'em - LIE!!!

Haley Barbour
Friday, July 25th 1996: Taking his cues from Newt Gingrich, former GOP chairman Haley Barbour used more bravado than truth to knock Democrats for a loop yesterday as he twisted the truth about loan guarantees for his "Policy Forum" obtained from the Young brothers of Taiwan -- money used later to rescue the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 1994.

Democrats charge that Barbour's National Policy Forum (NPF) existed to attract illegal foreign campaign contributions, launder them, and gie them to the RNC. A former official NPF resigned from NPF because he feared his reputation would be damaged by this Republican fishing expedition in alien waters.

But Barbour, who saw how Newt Gingrich just muscled his way out of a tight situations time and again, took the low road and just plain prevaricated to make his case. You had to be there.

more
http://www.americanpolitics.com/072597IfYouCantBeatEM.html

[Stephanie]

11. Thanks to you both for the articles!

Now can someone explain to me why this scumbag is eligible to run for office?

[Bandit]

2. Oh they just wanted to start a friendly Caucasian Club

:crazy:

[Swede]

3. Isn't that a Konservative Kaucasian Klub?

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5. Council of Conservative Citizens

A racist political group, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), has been making waves in the national media ever since it became known that mainstream politicians such as Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) and Representative Bob Barr (R-GA) were keynote speakers at CCC conferences. According to the CEO of the CCC, Gordon Lee Baum, Sen. Lott has ad-dressed the group a number of times, and Rep. Barr made an appearance in front of the group in 1998. These appearances by mainstream politicians such as Sen. Lott and Rep. Barr, and by numerous elected officials at the state and local levels, such as Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice, give the CCC a false imprimatur of legitimacy.

Cloaked in Mainstream Conservatism

Since its inception in the mid-1980s, the Council of Conservative Citizens has cloaked itself in the mantle of mainstream conservatism to mask its underlying racist agenda. The CCC bills itself as a "grass-roots" organization working on issues of concern to conservatives, such as opposition to affirmative action, "big" government, gun control and increased immigration.

The CCC co-opts both the language and issues of conservative causes to camouflage the true aim of the organization, which is to regain what it sees as the lost power base of the white population of the United States. The group also asserts that it is fighting to restore America's white Christian heritage and it has led the battle to preserve the use of the Confederate flag in Southern states.

Although Gordon Baum claims that his organization is not racist, an examination of the roots, membership, and official organ and Web site of the CCC proves otherwise. While individual chapters of the organization may be less extreme in their views than others, a pro-white and anti-minority stance is at the heart of every CCC chapter.


http://www.adl.org/special_reports/ccc/ccc_intro.asp

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7. One kick...

...for the Nooners.

[Brian Sweat]

10. I've been to their website. It's spelled Kouncil of Konservative Kitizens.

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8. Diehard racist segregationists are a key member

of the GOP coalition, vital to their success in the South, and crucial to their 'Southern strategy' that stretches to Idaho and Howard Beach.

State-wide repuke candidates in the Deep South must not offend old kluckers, and instead wink at their faithful support.

[Wickerman]

9. This isn't just your typical hot air.

Indeed. And he won't renounce his racist ties, plays the tired old saw that Byrd, 100 years ago, was a member of the Klan. Nice. Besides, he has a girl's name. Bastard

[RummyTheDummy]

12. What a website...

I particuarly enjoyed the "In defense of racism" section. Sad thing is, I'm sure it will play quite well in the cracker heaven that is Mississipi.