On Thursday,July 14, 2016, one day before congressional candidates' July Quarterly fundraising reports were due, Bluestem Prairie reported that MN02: Jason Lewis received $1000 from USIRPAC, managed by white nationalist activist.
According to Jason Lewis's Q2 report, filed electronically the next day, this contribution was "refunded July 14, 2016."
To recap: Lewis's fundraising report was filed on July 15, 2016; our post was published on July 14, 2016 and is based on the July 13, 2016 filing by US Immigration Reform PAC (see page 10 here).
While the PAC's FEC report lists the contribution was made on June 2, 2016, Lewis's report has the check being received on May 31, 2016.
Here's a screengrab from the FEC's online version of the section of Lewis's report detailing receipts from other committees:
Thus, the campaign held on to the check for nearly a month and a half, only to be refunded the day we posted our story. A coincidence or whatever, to be sure, since we're just a poor country blog.
Read why returning the check might have been a good idea in MN02: Jason Lewis received $1000 from USIRPAC, managed by white nationalist activist.
Photo: Timothy Dionisopoulos, manager of the USIRPAC speaking at a 2010 Minutemen rally in Rhode Island, Dionisopoulos spoke to the crowd citing the theories of deceased white nationalist Sam Francis.via Imagine 2050.
Imagine 2050 reported on the 2014 hiring of Dionisopoulos in White Nationalist Hired to Manage Anti-Immigrant PAC:
The anti-immigrant movement has attempted to distance itself from criticism since its ties to white nationalism were exposed. However, those distancing efforts have proven to be ineffectual given the anti-immigrant movement’s main political action committee has hired a prominent white nationalist as its manager going into the 2014 election season.
Last year, the US Immigration Reform PAC (USIR) quietly revealed that Tim Dionisopoulos would succeed James R. Edwards – a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) fellow and lobbyist for the anti-immigrant movement – and become the committee’s next manager. Originally operating under the name “FAIR PAC” in reference to John Tanton’s flagship anti-immigrant organization Federation for American Immigration (FAIR), USIR has served as the movement’s campaign contribution arm since the early 1990s. Tanton’s wife, Mary Lou, still serves as the committee’s president.
Dionisopoulos is a graduate of Providence College in Rhode Island. During his time on campus, he founded and led a local chapter of the white nationalist student group Youth for Western Civilization (YWC). In Providence, Dionisopoulos and YWC were best known for the anti-immigration protests they organized both on and off campus. Dionisopoulos was also a member of Rhode Islanders for Illegal Immigration Enforcement (RIILE) – a FAIR state contact group. After being introduced by RIILE President Terry Gorman during a 2010 Minutemen rally in Rhode Island, Dionisopoulos spoke to the crowd citing the theories of deceased white nationalist Sam Francis. . . .
There's a video of the speech embedded in our first post.
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