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Lamar White, Jr.
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Lamar White, Jr.
@LamarWhiteJr
Southern muckraker, policy wonk, history nerd | writer| Rice ‘05, SMU Law ‘15 | [email protected]
At 2 in the morning, hundreds of Ted Cruz supporters all woke up to issue the same exact statement on Twitter. Nothing suspicious about this. Nope. These are all just proud, patriotic American citizens, all deep in the heart of Texas.
- Cindy Hyde-Smith on voter suppression: "And then they remind me, that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea." Nov 2nd in Columbus, MS.
00:00 - Almost 9 years ago, I broke the story about Steve Scalise attending & speaking at a white supremacist conference in 2002. Given the renewed attention, I think it's important to correct a few things the media continues to misreport. (1/25) cenlamar.com/2014/12/28/hou…
- "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row"- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith says in Tupelo, MS after Colin Hutchinson, cattle rancher, praises her. Hyde-Smith is in a runoff on Nov 27th against Mike Espy.
00:00 - The Ku Klux Klan is distributing these packets in Sabine Parish, LA. Thankfully, they're asking voters go to the poles, not the polls.
- Replying to @LamarWhiteJrCorrection: Video WAS taken in Starkville on 11/03, which is what I had initially reported. There was some confusion, because apparently, Sen. Hyde-Smith has a talent for saying things like this often. @GanucheauAdam
- Donald Rouse, Sr. (right), the co-owner of the Louisiana-based grocery chainstore Rouses Markets, and former Rouses HR Director Steve Galtier traveled to DC to protest election, according to a public post on Galtier's FB. He claims they were alongside "millions" of "patriots."
- Replying to @LamarWhiteJr14. At the current rate, Donald Trump's expenses will surpass the combined total of all eight years of Barack Obama's in less than 4 months.
- Anthony Bourdain loved and understood Louisiana better than anyone not from here possibly could. He got us. Here he was in Mardi Gras in Mamou this year, where he dressed up in a costume to chase a chicken for a gumbo. And yes, this was all perfectly sensible.
- Replying to @LamarWhiteJrBut in 2002, Scalise was 35 years old, had served two terms in the state legislature, and was gearing up to run for a third term. This wasn't a rookie mistake. Not only was he familiar with Duke, but he personally knew members of Duke's political machine, including Kenny Knight.
- Replying to @LamarWhiteJrScalise eventually fessed up and admitted attending the white supremacist conference, though he claimed he had forgotten about the event, which, if true, speaks volumes about his normalization of white supremacist politics. Either way, he knew his audience.
- Replying to @LamarWhiteJrTo those of you in New Orleans who may be reluctant now to make groceries at Rouses, consider joining @nolafoodcoop and, for $100, becoming a co-owner of your own local grocery store. nolafood.coop
