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WHAT DID SHE KNOW? Democrat Governor Candidate Served on SPLC Board While It Bankrolled KKK Member

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WHAT DID SHE KNOW? Democrat Governor Candidate Served on SPLC Board While It Bankrolled KKK Member
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson served on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center while the SPLC paid members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations.



Benson, a Democrat running for governor, joined the organization’s board in 2014 and left in 2019, when the SPLC fired its co-founder, Morris Dees, amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal.



The SPLC gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, and today it maintai

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