WASHINGTON, March 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Speaker Nancy
 Pelosi has approved a Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on April 7th at
 Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol by the United Daughters of the
 Confederacy (UDC) Chapter No. 644. The organization is being joined in the
 celebration by the Jefferson Davis Camp No. 305 of the Sons of Confederate
 Veterans (SCV).
     Richard Hines, the commander of the Jefferson Davis Camp No. 305 is the
 major financial sponsor of Kirk Lyons, the white supremacist lawyer for the
 Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations, according to John Edward Hurley,
 president of the Confederate Memorial Association.
     Hurley said that Hines worked with Karl Rove in delivering the South
 Carolina vote for George W. Bush in the 2000 South Carolina primary. While
 a $300,000 lobbyist for the West African nation of Gambia, Hines
 impersonated a congressman while presenting an award from the White House
 to the Gambian president, Hurley claimed.
     Corporate filings in D.C. for the Jefferson Davis Camp show Hines as
 the commander of the group, and list Thomas Moore as a director. Moore
 lobbies for the leading small arms manufacturer in the world, Fabrique
 Nationale.
     Hurley said, "Robert E. Lee would turn over in his grave if knew that
 white supremacists would be celebrating his 200th birthday."
     According to Hurley, there is a fraud investigation under way involving
 these groups and missing artifacts in the 1997 sale of the century-old
 Confederate museum and library in downtown Washington.
 
 

SOURCE Confederate Memorial Association