George Allen Should Just Put On A Hood And Burn A Cross And Get It Over With

8:20 pm EST August 29th, 2006 | Republicans | 7 Comments

Even more proof that George Felix Allen Jr. is just another Republican racist.

Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.

In 1996, when Governor Allen entered the Washington Hilton Hotel to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative movement organizations, he strode to a booth at the entrance of the exhibition hall festooned with two large Confederate flags–a booth operated by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), at the time a co-sponsor of CPAC. After speaking with CCC founder and former White Citizens Council organizer Gordon Lee Baum and two of his cohorts, Allen suggested that they pose for a photograph with then-National Rifle Association spokesman and actor Charlton Heston. The photo appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the CCC’s newsletter, the Citizens Informer.

According to Baum, Allen had not naively stumbled into a chance meeting with unfamiliar people. He knew exactly who and what the CCC was about and, from Baum’s point of view, was engaged in a straightforward political transaction. “It helped us as much as it helped him,” Baum told me. “We got our bona fides.” And so did Allen.

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7 Responses to “George Allen Should Just Put On A Hood And Burn A Cross And Get It Over With”

  1. John K. says:
    August 29, 2006 at 10:26 pm

    Speaking of racists, there’s a doosy of a debate going on between myself and two right-wingers at this blog:

    http://bubbanear.blogspot.com/2006/08/so-aclu-thinks-price-is-too-high.html

    Anyone care to come on over and join the fun?

  2. Duros62 says:
    August 30, 2006 at 11:08 am

    Oh, I get it! CCC, KKK without the stick.
    Clever.

  3. lordrunningclam says:
    August 30, 2006 at 2:36 pm

    He tried, but he got tired of his wife yelling “The eye holes go in FRONT.”

  4. factcheck says:
    August 30, 2006 at 4:16 pm

    Oliver, oliver, oliver, George Felix Allen isn’t a racist, he’s just showing us the Republican big tent. Remember, a Senator represents all of us, even racists.

  5. greenvw says:
    August 31, 2006 at 12:53 am

    I saw your headline and laughed out loud. Priceless.

  6. Ian says:
    August 31, 2006 at 1:20 am

    I forgot the rule in the Republican handbook that says “if one of us is a bigot, then we all must be too”.

  7. Nimrod Gently says:
    August 31, 2006 at 9:29 am

    Why is this guy even seriously considered as a potential canditate for the Presidency of the United States?