Two board members of the conservative group Young America’s Foundation, which hosts the CPAC convention (a confab for movement conservative grifters), have some unsavory connections (boldface mine):
Two prominent conservative movement officials who hold leadership positions for several right-wing groups—Ron Robinson and James B. Taylor—run a political action committee that donated thousands of dollars to a white nationalist organization, according to public records. And for several years Taylor was vice president of another white nationalist organization.
Robinson and Taylor are each board members of Young America’s Foundation (YAF), which cofounded the annual Conservative Political Action Conference and runs the conservative youth group Young Americans for Freedom. (YAF owns and manages the Ronald Reagan Ranch, trains conservative journalists, and calls itself “the principle outreach organization of the Conservative Movement.”) And Robinson, YAF’s president, is on the board of two other conservative groups: Citizens United, which brought the landmark Supreme Court case of the same name, and the American Conservative Union, which operates CPAC.
But each also sits on the three-person board of America’s PAC, a far-right outfit that in 2004 gave $5,000 to the Charles Martel Society, a white nationalist group, according to the PAC’s filing with the Federal Election Commission….
The Martel Society is best known for publishing The Occidental Quarterly, which is sort of the Nature of academic racism, and its sister online publication, The Occidental Observer. The Anti-Defamation League has characterized the Quarterly as “racist” and the Observer as “anti-Semitic.” The Observer maintains an archive of stories on the topic of “Jews and the financial collapse,” and the Quarterly once awarded a $10,000 prize for books on the “group evolutionary strategies” of Jewish people.</blockquote>
Taylor is a real peach:
He was vice president of the National Policy Institute, also started by Regnery. The group was “basically was founded to be kind of a white supremacist think tank,” says Marilyn Mayo, the codirector of Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. Started in Augusta, Georgia, in 2005 and now based in Montana, NPI has published reports on “Affirmative Action and the Costs of Diversity” and “The State of White America 2007.” It warns on its website that “the dispossession of White Americans will have catastrophic effects for the entire world, not just for our people.”
But it’s ok because some
of their best friendsof their favorite politicians are black:He was vice president of the National Policy Institute, also started by Regnery. The group was “basically was founded to be kind of a white supremacist think tank,” says Marilyn Mayo, the codirector of Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. Started in Augusta, Georgia, in 2005 and now based in Montana, NPI has published reports on “Affirmative Action and the Costs of Diversity” and “The State of White America 2007.” It warns on its website that “the dispossession of White Americans will have catastrophic effects for the entire world, not just for our people.”
Note to Republicans: this is not a ‘messaging’ problem, it is a foundational flaw. Or an Original Sin, so to speak.
Same as it ever was.
mikethemadbiologist
you didn’t mean to quote the same paragraph twice did you?