Hampton Harris, who is seeking the Republican nomination in a bid to unseat the Democratic incumbent in Alabama’s second congressional district, U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile), recently slammed the congressman for receiving an endorsement from the Embroiled Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC).
Harris’ condemnation came after Figures accepted an endorsement from the SPLC Action Fund days after the Montgomery-based organization was federally indicted with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank and money laundering.
The SPLC Action Fund is the left-wing nonprofit’s PAC. The SPLC Action Fund endorsed 10 incumbent candidates in their bids for reelection to the House of Representatives. The candidates are all part of the Congressional Black Caucus.
“Shomari Figures has proudly accepted the endorsement of an organization exposed for funding hate, racism, and breathtaking hypocrisy,” Harris said. “Alabama’s Second Congressional District is home to Montgomery, the cradle of the civil rights movement. Yet Representative Figures has aligned himself with a group accused of bankrolling the exact racist extremists that made the civil rights struggle necessary in the first place while it has also targeted traditional Catholic organizations as hate groups and smeared conservative groups like Turning Point USA. This is a disgraceful betrayal of our district’s proud history and an insult to every Alabamian.”
Figures received an endorsement alongside his other Democratic member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Teri Sewell (D-Birmingham).
SEE: Indicted SPLC endorses Alabama Congressional Black Caucus members Figures, Sewell
“Voters in Alabama’s 2nd District have a clear choice this November,” Harris continued. “They can re-elect Congressman Figures, who has now embraced an indicted organization that funded hate groups, or they can send me to Congress as the Republican nominee to fight for unity and put Alabama families first.”
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