Meeting With Nazi Leader Continues To Roil Texas GOP

The Texas Tribune reports:

Two conservative lawmakers said Wednesday that they have donated money they received from the leader of a group who recently hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes. In a statement, Frisco Rep. Jared Patterson said that he has given $2,500 to a pro-Israel charity, to account for the in-kind contribution of the same value he received from former Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford.

Stickland is the leader of Defend Texas Liberty, a political action committee that has donated millions of dollars to top Texas Republicans — including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton. “I was appalled to learn Defend Texas Liberty PAC hosted a Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier for six hours,” Patterson said in a statement. “I could not rest until I washed my campaign from the stain of this organization and its leader.”

Read the full article. Patrick, Paxton and around a dozen GOP reps have so far ignored demands to return donations from Defend Texas Liberty.

Patrick got $3 million from them shortly before the start of Paxton’s trial, which he oversaw in his parallel role as Senate president.

Rep. Jared Patterson [photo], previously appeared here for his “Don’t Say Gay” and anti-drag bills.