Politics

The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise

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The two men at the heart of the Steve Scalise scandal were well known in Louisiana politics as longtime operatives of David Duke’s Holocaust-denying hate machine.

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In 1989, a newly registered Republican in Louisiana named David Duke won his only election by a fluke.

That year, a state representative in Metairie, an affluent Jefferson Parish suburb just across the line from New Orleans, vacated his seat to become a judge.

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