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The Florida Republican Party paid thousands of dollars over the summer to a far-right activist who attended the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 and later charged at a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators with a Confederate flag.
Christopher Monzon was paid more than $10,000 by the party between June and September, federal campaign finance records show. Neither Monzon nor the Florida GOP responded to HuffPost’s request for comment about the payments.
Monzon was in the news Monday after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted that “one of our canvassers” had been attacked in Hialeah — a conservative and predominantly Cuban-American city in Miami-Dade County — “by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood.” Several prominent Republicans quickly latched onto the story, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who tweeted, “Violence has NO PLACE in politics.”
A video from the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville shows Monzon wearing a T-shirt for the white supremacist group League of the South. “I intend to stand for the South and die for it if need be,” Monzon says in a Southern drawl. In the video, he’s wearing a helmet and holding a flag bearing both the Confederate stars and bars and the League of the South’s black cross symbol.
“They will not replace us,” Monzon says — a reference to the “great replacement theory,” the fascist and anti-Semitic belief that Jews are importing immigrants into Europe and North America in order to hasten the end of the white race.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-gop-paid-thousands-far-192025969.html
Christopher Monzon was paid more than $10,000 by the party between June and September, federal campaign finance records show. Neither Monzon nor the Florida GOP responded to HuffPost’s request for comment about the payments.
Monzon was in the news Monday after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted that “one of our canvassers” had been attacked in Hialeah — a conservative and predominantly Cuban-American city in Miami-Dade County — “by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood.” Several prominent Republicans quickly latched onto the story, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who tweeted, “Violence has NO PLACE in politics.”
A video from the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville shows Monzon wearing a T-shirt for the white supremacist group League of the South. “I intend to stand for the South and die for it if need be,” Monzon says in a Southern drawl. In the video, he’s wearing a helmet and holding a flag bearing both the Confederate stars and bars and the League of the South’s black cross symbol.
“They will not replace us,” Monzon says — a reference to the “great replacement theory,” the fascist and anti-Semitic belief that Jews are importing immigrants into Europe and North America in order to hasten the end of the white race.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-gop-paid-thousands-far-192025969.html