{"id":1106573,"date":"2021-12-10T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106573"},"modified":"2021-12-10T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:30:06","slug":"wisconsin-dem-fundraises-with-anti-semite-valerie-plame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-fundraises-with-anti-semite-valerie-plame\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Dem Fundraises With Anti-Semite Valerie Plame"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-dem-fundraises-with-anti-semite-valerie-plame%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106573&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.036734693878\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Failed congressional candidate promoted article claiming &#8216;America&#8217;s Jews are driving America&#8217;s wars&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Plame-736x515-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"Valerie Plame\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Plame.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Plame-300x210.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tValerie Plame \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 December 10, 2021 3:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"70.441283292978\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A swing-district Wisconsin Democrat fundraised on Wednesday with failed congressional candidate Valerie Plame, who has blamed Jews for America&#8217;s wars.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deb McGrath, who is running for Congress in the state&#8217;s Third Congressional District, hosted the virtual fundraiser with Plame. The event&#8217;s invitation, obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, shows that supporters were charged up to $1,000.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1546362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5277.jpeg\" alt width=\"539\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5277.jpeg 539w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5277-230x300.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5277-376x491.jpeg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Plame, a former CIA operative, faced criticism in 2017 when she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/valerie-plame-wilson-tweets-americas-jews-driving-americas-wars\/\">tweeted<\/a> an article titled, &#8220;America&#8217;s Jews Are Driving America&#8217;s Wars,&#8221; which suggested Jews who appear on television should have a &#8220;warning label,&#8221; &#8220;kind of like a warning label on a bottle of rat poison.&#8221; In since-deleted tweets, she defended the post, saying &#8220;many neocon hawks ARE Jewish.&#8221; Plame eventually apologized, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/valerie-plame-wilson-apology-tweeting-anti-semitic-story-2017-9\">blaming<\/a> the tweet on &#8220;multitasking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite Plame&#8217;s problematic rhetoric, in 2020 she received 25 percent of the Democratic primary vote in New Mexico&#8217;s Third Congressional District. VoteVets, a progressive group <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/schumer-pac-backing-valerie-plame\/\">funded<\/a> by the Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC, spent tens of thousands of dollars backing Plame&#8217;s candidacy. Her campaign also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/valerie-plame-accepts-more-campaign-donations-from-prominent-holocaust-denier\/\">received<\/a> multiple contributions from prominent Holocaust denier Pete McCloskey, a former California congressman.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">McGrath&#8217;s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Republican Derrick Van Orden narrowly lost to Rep. Ron Kind (D.) last cycle and is considered a favorite to flip the seat for Republicans in 2022. Kind in August <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/unhappy-ending-wisconsin-dem-tied-to-massage-parlor-wont-run-for-reelection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/unhappy-ending-wisconsin-dem-tied-to-massage-parlor-wont-run-for-reelection\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639241778839000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3GwZqFLluz3-OEKu3zXkKJ\">announced<\/a> he will retire amid <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ron-kind-rented-property-to-masseuse-suspected-of-prostitution-human-trafficking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ron-kind-rented-property-to-masseuse-suspected-of-prostitution-human-trafficking\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639241778839000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1xeuCRFD8OSYgrmOfUMLnL\">reports<\/a> that a property he rents out is tied to human trafficking and prostitution.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Failed congressional candidate promoted article claiming &#8216;America&#8217;s Jews are driving America&#8217;s wars&#8217;  Valerie Plame \/ Getty Images  Matthew Foldi \u2022 December 10, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}