KKK, CCC, David Duke, and Tony Perkins

The blogger Wash Park Prophet fills us in on the KKK's relationship with the usual suspects:

There have even been Ku Klux Klan connections to Colorado politics in recent history.

[T]he Family Research Council (associated with - and at the time a part of - Focus on the Family) paid former KKK leader David Duke $82,000 for - you guessed it - a membership list from the KKK.

It really isn't surprising that politicians like Musgrave win KKK approval. Indeed, both Republican Representative Tancredo's anti-immigrant movement and Marilyn Musgrave's Christian conservative movement have intellectual roots in the second KKK, the incarnation that dominated Colorado politics in the early 1920s.

James Dobson founded Focus on the Family, remember. More from The Nation on Tony Perkins, boss of the Family Research Council, the one who bought the KKK's list:

Four years ago, Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America's premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens Councils, which battled integration in the South. In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.

Recognize any more names?

The Council for National Policy (CNP), an ultra-secretive, right-wing organization, was the outcome of that meeting. The CNP hooked up theocrats like R.J. Rushdoony, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell with wealthy movement funders like Amway founder Richard DeVos and beer baron Joseph Coors. As DeVos famously said, the CNP "brings together the doers with the donors."

Tip of the iceberg. Colorado is the ground zero of the Dobson-Perkins-Coors corporate-theocrat machine that is trying to push extremism and hate into America's heart in order to destroy the Constitution.

Musgrave is just some of its acne -- but it's spreading.