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Major League Baseball wants Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith's (R-Miss.) Campaign to make a $ 5,000 donation, ESPN announced Sunday.
An MLB spokesman told an ESPN reporter that the donation was made in connection with the participation of a lobbyist from the league. The league "requested that the contribution be returned," said the spokesman.
The money was donated to the campaign through the league's political action committee, which reports to the commissioner's office.
The Hyde-Smith campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
Other major organizations, such as Walmart, AT & T, Leidos, Union Pacific and Boston Scientific, have made similar requests for restitution of donations from the legislator's campaign after reports were received that she would have recently joked while attending a hypothetical "public hanging".
The remark she made during the election campaign sparked sharp criticism in a state with an ugly history of terrorizing blacks with lynchings.
The senator later apologized for her remark, but accused her opponents of distorting her remarks for political reasons. Her comment had nothing to do with race-related lynchings, she said.
Hyde-Smith will face Democrat Mike Espy in a special election on Tuesday, and the challenger's campaign was aimed at highlighting the rebate application by baseball officials. "When you lost the hobby of the United States, you crossed a red line," said Espy's communications director, Danny Blanton, in a statement.
Hyde-Smith was named earlier this year by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (right), to fill the vacancy left by former Senator Thad Cochran (right), who resigned for reasons of health. She became the first woman to represent Mississippi
The winner of the special election will serve the last two years of Cochran's term. In the heavily Republican state, Hyde-Smith had long been considered the prohibitive favorite of the race. But the reproaches of his "suspended" remark gave the Democrats a hope of winning the seat.
To avoid such inconvenience, President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold two rallies in Mississippi on Monday to rally Hyde-Smith's support.
Her appearances follow a report in a Mississippi newspaper on Friday that Hyde-Smith, 59, had attended a school "in isolation" when she was younger. The school, Lawrence County Academy, was created to allow white parents to avoid sending their children to school with black children, the Jackson Free Press reported. The senator also sent her daughter to a similar school, according to the newspaper.
Such schools were set up in many southern states after court decisions were made and the civil rights movement finally ended the segregation of public schools in the region.
It was also recently revealed that Hyde-Smith had praised Confederate history in a Facebook post in 2014. Beside a smiling picture of herself wearing a confederate soldier's hat and holding a gun at an exhibition in a museum, the senator wrote: "The Mississippi story at its best!"
Espy, 64, a former member of the Mississippi House, served as US Secretary of Agriculture during President Bill Clinton's first term.
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