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(And so it begins. Or does Mittens making his lake home his primary residence count as the first official primary visit? - promoted by Dean Barker)
Well, the Washington Post is reporting that Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is coming to New Hampshire. Gov. Barbour will be the speaker at a $500 a pop fundraiser for the Republican State Committee at C.R. Sparks on June 24.
Believe it or not, this is a significant upgrade in Barbour's choice of fundraisers to attend.
During Barbour's 2002 campaign, he spoke at a fundraising BBQ sponsored by the Council of Conservative Citizens.
The CCC is a flat-out racist group with its roots in the 1950s segregationist movement. The Anti-Defamation League has some background on the CCC:
Both on its national and chapter Web sites and in its primary publication, The Citizens Informer, CCC's belief in white superiority and its derision of nonwhites, particularly African Americans, are delineated without apology. The Web site of the Arkansas chapter, for instance, elaborates on the toll that interracial marriage ostensibly takes on "European-American culture": it is totally unacceptable, the site states, "to think that we should voluntarily commit cultural and racial abdication." On the group's California site, contributor Peter Anthony states, "...just as breeds of dogs are different, races of people are different as well. And just as no two cultures created by different Races are even remotely alike, no two races have the same destiny in the eyes of God." Anthony also waxes nostalgic for the bygone era "when the Klan could 'march on Washington' to the cheers of an adoring public, when race-mixing and homosexuality were taboo, when racial separation was the norm."
In the same vein, the national Web site has posted photos of African Americans during the March 2001 Mardi Gras riots in Seattle over captions that referred to "wild blacks" and "animal control" (a picture of two white people apparently using pepper spray: "Keeping the wildlife at bay until animal control arrives"). A photograph of an African American apparently attempting to kick a white person was captioned, "Dancing with the Dark." Nearby links had titles like "Beautiful white girl bludgeoned to death by black soldier."
