Texas Tribune / Juan Figueroa
State Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, on the Home ground on Could 21, 2019.
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Two months after its chief was caught internet hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes, a outstanding consulting agency for far-right candidates and teams is working beneath a brand new identify.
In a Nov. 13 submitting with the Texas Secretary of State, an legal professional for Pale Horse Methods LLC wrote that the agency would additionally conduct future enterprise beneath the identify “West Fort Value Administration LLC.”
The agency is owned by former state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, and is closely concerned in right-wing politics in Texas.
Pale Horse Methods has already used the brand new identify to recruit for job openings on a web site for right-wing teams, promoting for copywriter and occasion coordinator positions. The abstract for one of many jobs initially included the identify “Pale Horse Methods” and invited potential candidates to use in the event that they “can be a very good match for this place at PHS.” The references to Pale Horse Methods had been eliminated Thursday afternoon, after the Tribune reported on the agency’s new identify and job posting.
A consultant for Pale Horse Methods couldn’t be instantly reached for touch upon Thursday.
The transfer comes as Pale Horse Methods and Stickland stay on the heart of a firestorm over the agency’s relationship with Fuentes and different antisemitic figures.
Fuentes is a outstanding and avowed admirer of Adolf Hitler who has referred to as for a “holy conflict” towards Jews; questioned if the Holocaust occurred and in contrast its 6 million victims to cookies being baked in an oven; inspired his followers to beat ladies; and fantasized about marrying a 16-year-old when he’s 30 as a result of that’s “proper when the milk is nice.”
“All I need is revenge towards my enemies and a complete Aryan victory,” Fuentes stated final yr.
In October, The Texas Tribune printed photographs of Fuentes leaving the Tarrant County places of work of Pale Horse Methods after spending almost seven hours there. Stickland was on the time additionally the chief of Defend Texas Liberty, a political motion committee that two West Texas oil billionaires have used to donate almost $15 million to Texas Republicans — together with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Lawyer Basic Ken Paxton.
In response to the Fuentes scandal — in addition to subsequent Tribune reporting that uncovered deeper ties between Defend Texas Liberty and different excessive or antisemitic figures — some Republicans have referred to as for the get together to chop ties with Defend Texas Liberty and its auxiliary teams, together with Pale Horse, till Stickland was faraway from any place of energy and a full clarification of the assembly was given.
In October, Defend Texas Liberty issued a two-sentence assertion condemning Fuentes’ “incendiary” views and quietly up to date its web site to replicate that Stickland is not its president. Tim Dunn, one of many two billionaires who primarily fund Defend Texas Liberty, additionally referred to as the assembly a “blunder,” in line with a press release from Patrick.
However Defend Texas Liberty and Pale Horse have in any other case remained silent in regards to the scandals, at the same time as others within the Texas GOP name for extra to be carried out to oust white supremacists and different antisemitic figures from the get together’s ranks. Earlier this month, almost half of the Texas GOP’s govt committee voted to ban the get together from associating with people or teams “identified to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial.”
The measure was defeated in a 32-29 vote, nonetheless, with some opponents worrying that such a ban can be a “slippery slope” and trigger issues for the get together shifting ahead.
This text initially appeared within the Texas Tribune.
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