Why don't the Republicans check out where their donations are actually coming from?

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COMMENTS:
*  Anyone the contributes to the GOP party should be thought of as a "Supremacist".(IE:Koch brothers)
*  Only now that they've been publicly exposed will the GOP candidates return the donations and reject the most extreme hate-filled supporters.
*  Wait a minute, is this a surprise to anyone? Like the old saying goes not all repugnicans are racist bigots but all racist bigots are repugnicans.
*  The sad part is how in public the GOP tries to act all godly riding a high horse. Anti immigration, Anti Abortion, Anti Gay, etc. along with the one that they refuse to admit too even though it is their top priority; Anti Black. No President in history has received the extreme hatred President Obama has received from the any rival party even before the man took office 6 years ago. Racial bigotry, Rightwing talk radio, Fox News, etc. is todays GOP
*  Look carefully into the membership of the TEA party and one will see the racist vein running throughout and deeply within the organization. It is a major focus.
*   Lol. Who would have thought? The Repub candidates are hiding behind Fox News to become "mainstream". But they have gone so far to the right that normal Americans would be repulsed if they ever had to just look at the policies instead of the media created talking head.
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Republicans return donations from white supremacist
Contributions by Bob Christie, June 22, 2015

Republican presidential candidates, GOP lawmakers and the lone black Republican in the House are returning donations from the leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect Dylann Roof or giving the money to charity.

The campaigns of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rick Santorum said they would donate the money received from Earl Holt, leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens, to a fund set up by Charleston's mayor to assist the victims' families.

"I abhor the sentiments Mr. Holt has expressed," Santorum said in a statement. "These statements and sentiments are unacceptable. Period. End of sentence."

Rep. Mia Love of Utah, an African-American Republican woman who was elected to the House last year, said through a spokesman that she had returned $1,000 in donations.

Holt made some $65,000 in donations to Republicans, including several White House hopefuls, The Guardian newspaper reported Sunday night.

An online manifesto purportedly written by Roof, the suspect in last week's murder of nine blacks at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, said he learned about "brutal black on white murders" from the Council of Conservative Citizens website.

The paper reported that one of the candidates, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, will return the $8,500 he received from Earl Holt, leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

In a statement posted online Sunday, Holt said that it "was not surprising" that Roof credited his group with his knowledge of black-on-white crime. But he added that the Council of Conservative Citizens is "hardly responsible for the actions of this deranged individual merely because he gleaned accurate information from our website," and said that the group doesn't condone illegal activities.

Holt also donated to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, and to several current and former GOP members of Congress, including Iowa Rep. Steve King, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and former Minnesota Rep. and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, according to the Guardian.

In a statement Monday, Cotton said he had taken the initial steps to refund Holt's contribution.

"I do not agree with his hateful beliefs and language and believe they are hurtful to our country," Cotton said.

Flake's press secretary said Monday the senator is donating his $1,000 to the fund set up in Charleston to help the shooting victims' families.
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