Tony Perkins, head of Family Research Council, bought Duke’s phone bank in 1996 Louisana Senate campaign
August 30, 2007 8:08 am Ku Klux Klan Terror, Christian Right, Nativism, and RacismTony Perkins managed Woody Jenkins Senate campaign in 1996, MMA, 8/29/2007
….while managing Republican state representative Louis E. “Woody” Jenkins’ 1996 campaign for the U.S. Senate, Perkins paid $82,500 to use former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke’s phone bank for Jenkins’ run-off election with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Jenkins was later fined $3,000 for “knowingly and willfully fil[ing] false disclosure reports showing Courtney Communications as the vendor.”