3dP.2015.Episode.100

Third Place's centennial episode brings you the bloggers who broke the explosive story of Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise addressing a white supremacist group in 2002. Lamar White and Zack Kopplin tell us how they discovered the story of Scalise's speaking to the European American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), a group linked to David Duke, while a State Representative. This story, uncovered by White and Kopplin, made national headlines and forced an apology from Scalise, the third most powerful person in the U.S. House of Representatives. You'll hear the backstory of Scalise's opposition to the Stelly Plan, a progressive state tax reform measure that won in the early 2000s and was more recently repealed, and how his opposition to an urban development fund was pitched to the white supremacist group. We also fact-check the claims made by Scalise's office and Kenny Knight, Duke's former campaign manager, about whether Scalise was at the EURO conference and what he did there.