ONE CONTRIBUTION DO NOT A NEO-NAZI MAKE
Evidence that the Ron Paul campaign received a donation from a Neo-Nazi White Supremacist is reported a bit breathlessly by the Lone Star Times. While it is news, is it the earth-shattering scoop the anti-Paulistas will spin it into?
From the Lone Star Times:
[a] contribution to the Paul campaign by a known white-supremacist has been identified.
The evidence is as follows:
* Black proudly and openly identifies himself as Stormfront’s guiding hand, and publishes a contact address on the Internet– PO Box 6637, West Palm Beach, FL, 33405
* A search by LST of public databases indicates that there is only one “Don Black†residing in West Palm Beach, Florida, zip code 33405
* A 7/16/01 USA Today article identifies Black’s wife as being named “Chloeâ€
* That same article identifies Chloe as being the ex-wife of close Black associate and former “Grand Wizard†of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke
* Minutes of a 9/7/07 City of West Palm Beach code-compliance hearing identify “Chloe H. Duke†as owning a residential property located at 203 Lakeland Drive
* According to Federal Election Commission records, on 9/30/07 the Ron Paul presidential campaign received a $500 contribution from a Mr. Don Black, who lists his address as 203 Lakeland Drive and identifies his occupation as “self-employed/website managerâ€In light of these facts, we believe our previously asked questions continue to have merit.
One sympathizes with anyone in the news business: in this age of instantaneous communication, any news is old news in a matter of minutes. Any digging up of facts not previously known is an achievement.
Opponents have tried to attach the pro-Nazi label to the Paul campaign for some time now. Paul should be held to no higher or lower standard than other candidates: they have all had donations from groups or individuals who espouse a variety of disagreeable views. That’s America: one’s free to donate to whomever one wishes.
Read rest of story:
The Ron Paul Campaign and the Don Black Contribution
Sources:
The Ron Paul Campaign and the Don Black Contribution
Specific Contribution by Neo-Nazi Tied to Ron Paul Campaign
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIf a white supremascist said that he supported no kill animal shelters would you object to no kill animal shelters ?
Should the Red Cross or Salvation Army give back his donations ?
Ron Paul is CLEARLY NOT a white nationalist nor a racist, and in fact has the greatest support of any republican candidate among black voters in NH. At a time when there is actually fraud going on in campaign finace (just goggle bundler contributions children chinatown) it seems odd that some would be so incensed by a $500 contribution from the bogey man.
Well said John Galt, are we suprised that these smear tactics would start? This is actually pretty pathetic when you think about it. Dr. Paul is such an outstanding citizen this is the best they can come up with. It’s laughable….RON PAUL the true Conservative!
A citizen donated $500 to Ron Paul. Stop the presses.
What a weak attempt at a smear. Maybe Paul can give the guy back his $500 when Hillary and the other establishment candidates give back the millions they’ve taken in from shady individuals.
Ron Paul’s campaign financing is almost 100% transparent but he is to be smeared because a donor, who Paul has no control over, decided to give Paul’s campaign $500 from his own pocket.
being a black man i support paul 110% i have given money and i will continue to give. i see nothing wrong with paul receiving money from anyone. as a matter of fact i have a large streak of black power in my blood. oh, how they hate it when we come together and unite. freedom is a powerful thing!
Don Black and his wife reside in the suburbs of W.Palm Beach? One of the largest Jewish populations in Florida. It’s not like the ADL isn’t aware of this, or his Jewish neighbors for that matter. Why never a campaign to get Don to move out or a little of the ol’ ADL harrassment campaign? Can you see a false front operation working in the ADL’s interests?
I guess Hillary getting cash from Chinese Communists or support from the US Communist Party is no big deal though…We know who’s boss.
I’m Jewish, love freedom, and love Ron Paul. I hate Neo-nazi groups, but have no problem with them giving their full support to Ron Paul. As much as i would yell in opposition to those groups’ message, I would fight and die for their right to say it.
It’s pretty easy, he should just donate the money to some African American scholarship fund or some other charity.
Nick, that’s the dumbest comment on the thread so far. What in the world does one thing have to do with another? The only issue is whether or not you believe such donations will have any influence on the principles and decisions of Ron Paul if he were president. Anyone that actually thinks that a man as principled as Ron Paul would even waiver because a white power supporter gave the campaign money is simply a dumbass.
Mik hit the nail on the head. Of course Ron Paul attracts all the fringe extremists: he’s the candidate who promises not to silence them. Denying their support would be a violation of that most basic principle.
Why is it so hard to grasp the idea that certain goals benefit everyone, and when pursuing such goals there is no shame in standing side-by-side with otherwise revolting individuals? As Dr. Paul himself has pointed out, the message of freedom unites people.
*yawn* no one really cares
I mean if we can have the head of the KKK in the senate, this is nothing.
MOVE ON PEOPLE! Don’t even give blogs that mention this the traffic.
I find it odd that the leader of a white supremest group would live in West Palm Beach FL. That is basically retired rich Jew land. I hardly think that this is the same Don Black that is a racist neo-nazi. Would he not live some place in Wyoming or Montana where most of them live?
I find this linking suspect.
Yawn. Another non-story attmept to smear the good doctor with guilt-by-association.
We Paul-unteers are used to that. We get it all the time. It doesn’t work then either.
Dr. Paul has no control over who sends him money or who endorses him or puts a link to his web page on their page. It happens. It does not mean the love shown, to use the Internet term, is mutual. In this case it is not.
Therefore, Dr. Paul should not apologize or repudiate that for which he has no control over. By that extension if he did he’d be doing it for everythign that ever went wrong in life to everyone everywhere. That’s absurd.
OTOH, to be consistent, if Dr. Paul sought out this type of endorsement (which he didn’t) then he does have control over it and then should repudiate it. But that didn’t happen here, not in the slightest.
Another molehill brought down to size and passed by…
Why should Ron Paul give back the money?
Does anyone think that $500.00 is going to influence Dr. Paul in some untoward way?
And if he did give it back, what’s next? Will they complain next that members of the John Birch society are contributors? Students for 9/11 truth? We the People Foundation?
And who knows what dark purpose the money may be put to if it goes back. Perhaps Don Black will donate it instead to John “Toilet” Bowles, who is running for president of the Nazi party.
To paraphrase Jesus: “It is not what goes into a political campaign that is important, it is what comes out of it.”
The views of the supporters is totally irrelevant, the views of Ron Paul are paramount.
Later
A real live black power supporter on this board just admitted to giving to Ron Paul. Why isn’t that smear news?
Hah! What a nice list of comments. Thanks all you Ron Paul people. You cheered me up.
I hate this kind of stupid smear nonsense. Why isn’t Lonestarttimes getting smeared for wading through the cesspool that is Stormfront.com.
Why have they been spending so much time over there?
It’s really gross to see them trying SO DARN hard to find SOMETHING to discredit Paul with. He’s spotless and the best they can do is find a disagreeable contributor. Sad.
-Chad
John Galt Says:
“If a white supremascist said that he supported no kill animal shelters would you object to no kill animal shelters ?
Should the Red Cross or Salvation Army give back his donations ?”
No kill shelters and the red cross, are not in a position to pay back their donors. People invest in politicians, so that they can influence them. Your analogies are asinine.
Im curious as to why this is such important news…I mean, ESPECIALLY as opposed to the following which I found considerably more newsworthy:
– Ron Paul gets more fonations from active and retired military than any other candidate in the race Democrat or Republican.
– Hillary Clinton accepted almost a million dollars from Norman Hsu, a known felon and embezzler who at the time was dodging federal prosecutors and just now ended his 15-year run from the law.
This is to say nothing of Peter Paul and the several other shady- well, lets just call it blatantly illegal- fundraising events, contributions, and crooked donators.
We are to understand that in light of all this…Ron Paul (a candidate the maisntream media insists to us is a crazy fringe candidate with no chance of winning) receiving $500 from some racist idiot is the bigger story here?
Funny how for lack of any REAL valid and formulated criticisms of Ron Paul, we’re constantly treated to playground-level insults and silly extrapolations.
+ forgot to add…
Kudos to NHLovesRonPaul for bringing that nifty little detail up…I had almost forgotten.
Yes, lets simply forget that the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and technically the 3rd most powerful man in Washington is a DEMOCRAT KKK member who works alongside Hillary Clinton.
So just who is Robert Byrd supporting, I wonder? I ask this because I have my doubts that he’d be backing Obama…call it a hunch.
LST failed to mention that Mr Black was a Bush supporter in 2000. In fact there is or was a picture of him and his son supporting Katherine Harris in her decision to give Bush the Florida election. Maybe LST should look back and determine if Black gave Bush or the GOP any contributions during that election period ? Black has been David Duke’s friend and right hand man for sometime and I believe involved in all of Duke’s GOP campaigns. The GOP has a long tradition of playing footsie with the racist/neo-nazi fringe which now likes to call itself white nationalists. A who’s who of who of Stormfront’s major players will show a long GOP pedigree ( David Duke, Black, Bob Whitaker, Jamie Kelso. Sam Dickson, Ed Fields, and on and on ). Obviously there are forces in this country that will do anything to scuttle Ron Paul’s campaign – but making it easy the way the GOP has done reflects more on them than on Paul.
As for Robert Byrd, he reputiated his klan connections in the 40’s ( over 60 years ago ) and has never looked back. In fact he and Ron Paul have been two of the harshest critics of this neocon led war. So why even bring his name up ? Whether one likes it or not today’s racists/neo-nazis are a product of the rightwing.
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