Scott Fitzgerald: “Southern Poverty Law Center began as a public interest law…”

“Thank you, Chairman. Mr. O', Neill, I wanted to talk a little bit about this, the hate map concept. But isn't it true Southern Poverty Law Center began as a public interest law firm. Correct. Yeah. And actually, as a member of the state legislature, we had some issues in which Southern Poverty Law center had weighed in on. So I was familiar with the group before.” (00:12–00:17)

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