becomes of him. the question has fed other people. i think the phrase was eaten alive by reporters. this seems like this is a very big problem for the gop leadership. they re all in recess. everyone is home right now. but they re going to have to come up with a statement. people are going to have to come up with positions about what to do about this. yeah, and most people have sort of held their tongues so far. i reached out to speaker boehner s office for kmernt. they haven t said anything yet. but we have a good parallel for this which is trent lot who was felled exactly the same way. it s a built of a slow burn. it took a little time after he made comments. it was only after more news stories started coming out about prior associations with white supremeistist groups that things started to heat up. that s the situation that skalise needs to worry about right now.
to do with how this story plays out. do we have a read on boehner when it comes to balancing personal loyalties, wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he has personal feelings at all for skalise here versus bottom liableltttom line damage for his par sni? do we know how he strikes that balance. he has a pretty killer line when it comes down to ethics violations. i think that he s very loyal to his team. he has congressman grim who might be stepping down as soon as tomorrow or the next day because he pled guilty. he s kind of tumbling in to the 114 et congress.
potentially big story involving the third-ranking republican in the house of representatives at a speech that he apparently gave in front of a white supremists organization 12 years ago. he was elected to the house in a special election back in the e 2008. after that he quickly established himself as one of the party s leading voices on capitol hill. earlier this year eric canter s shocking downfall set off a shocking reaction. earlier this year skalise was elected to be the new house majority, the third highest position with just two rungs before house speaker. what nobody knew is this. in may, 2002 when he was still a member of the lae la state laej e legislature, he was the featured speaker of a workshop founded by david duke. he s a one-time grand wizard of the nightknights of the klu klux
after a louisiana bloger had a member called storm front, probably the most. in that post the ewe e anonymous storm front user says he or she attended the conference in 22 e 002 and that the meeting was productive locally as state representative steve skalise discussed ways to oversee gross misuse of tax revenue or slush funds that have no accountability. the dire circumstances pervasive in many important, under-funded needs of the community at the expensive graft and urban development fund in an apparent give i way. this is the account of one anonymous user of a white supremest igs web site. and to be clear, skalise s office acknowledged today that he did speak to david duke s
they want to prove that they still have sway. they want to prove that they can still exert power over boehner who is so often, in the past several years, has seemed not to control his caucus. so this is a real test for him of whether he can get his way. so far, it looks like he s doing that. on the one hand forcing grim out with a phone call urksz very efficient and clean and quick. and, on the other hand, rallying behind skalise and ensuring he can stay where he is as long as there s not further revelations in that scandal. skalise skalise is basically pleadingic no rans. they ve got white nationalists on the right. whoever wants to talk to me. not quite an apples to apples comparison there. but okay. i would agree. but we get this talk with republicans to the changing demographics of america, the voting patterns and you know,