{"id":4515,"date":"2010-07-20T16:31:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T20:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2010-11-10T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:33:24","slug":"cair-warns-marco-rubio-away-from-tea-party-event-tells-rubio-not-to-lend-legitimacy-to-this-hate-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4515","title":{"rendered":"CAIR warns Marco Rubio away from tea party event; tells Rubio not to &#8220;lend legitimacy to this hate rally&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> July 20, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just four days after asking\u00a0 a Florida tea party group to <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4510\">drop<\/a> ACT! for American founder Brigitte Gabriel as their keynote speaker for an August event, CAIR launched an aggressive press release against GOP Senate Candidate Marco Rubio, who was invited to the event but had not yet confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We ask Mr. Rubio not to lend legitimacy to this hate rally and to demonstrate through his actions that the Republican Party will not seek to benefit from the rising level of Islamophobia in our society,&#8221; said CAIR-Tampa Communications Director Ramzy Kili\u00e7. &#8220;Since the rally organizers obviously believe a hate-monger is an appropriate keynote speaker, we ask all the elected officials and candidates listed on the event flyer to cancel their appearances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-asks-fla-us-senate-hopeful-not-to-attend-anti-islam-rally-98843989.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-asks-fla-us-senate-hopeful-not-to-attend-anti-islam-rally-98843989.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CAIR_Rubio_Tea_Party.pdf\">(Local   Backup PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 22 the Center for Security Policy sent a <a href=\"..\/?p=4581\">letter to Marco Rubio<\/a> concerning CAIR\u2019s  unregistered foreign agent status and identifying   CAIR\u2019s urging of Mr. Rubio cancel his participation in the tea party  event as a\u00a0 foreign  influence operation.\u00a0  A copy of the letter was  also sent to Bureau  Chief Heather Hunt of the  Foreign Agents  Registration Unit at the  Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>As a response, Guy Rodgers, Executive Director of ACT! for America, also sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SKMBT_60010111013420.pdf\">letter<\/a> to to Bureau  Chief Heather Hunt of the  Foreign Agents  Registration Unit at the  Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: July 20, 2010 Description: Just four days after asking\u00a0 a Florida tea party group to drop ACT! for American founder Brigitte Gabriel as their keynote speaker for an August event, CAIR launched an aggressive press release against GOP Senate Candidate Marco Rubio, who was invited to the event but had not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,30,123,122,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-florida","category-elected-officials","category-islamophobia","category-non-profits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}