{"id":973246,"date":"2021-11-05T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=973246"},"modified":"2021-11-05T16:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:59:25","slug":"shalala-rescinds-donation-to-anti-israel-dem-house-candidate-after-free-beacon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shalala-rescinds-donation-to-anti-israel-dem-house-candidate-after-free-beacon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Shalala Rescinds Donation to Anti-Israel Dem House Candidate After Free Beacon Report"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fshalala-rescinds-donation-to-anti-israel-dem-house-candidate-after-free-beacon-report%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=973246&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1189275809_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Clinton health secretary and congresswoman Donna Shalala (D., Fla.) this week rescinded a $2,800 donation to unsuccessful Democratic House candidate Omari Hardy (Fla.) after the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reported on Hardy&#8217;s support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.<\/p>\n<p>Shalala&#8217;s political action committee, Donna Democrats, in May made the contribution to Hardy, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/pro-bds-house-candidate-soundly-defeated-in-florida-primary\/\">reported<\/a> Wednesday. Hardy on Tuesday lost the Democratic primary in Florida&#8217;s 20th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>The Donna Democrats PAC asked Hardy to refund the donation after it learned from the article about his anti-Israel positions, Shalala&#8217;s former deputy chief of staff Raul Martinez Jr. said in an email on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After reading the story of Mr. Hardy&#8217;s position on BDS and Iron Dome, Donna Democrats sent [Hardy] an email asking for the donation to be returned,&#8221; said Martinez. &#8220;In the email I explained that Rep. Shalala and Donna Democrats cannot support candidates with that position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martinez said the donation &#8220;was promptly returned the following day&#8221; and &#8220;will be visible on our next report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hardy came out in support of BDS during his campaign, calling it &#8220;the only option Palestinians have to draw attention to their plight and to change the behavior of Israel&#8217;s military and political leaders.&#8221; He also said he would have opposed a bill to provide additional funding for Israel&#8217;s Iron Dome.<\/p>\n<p>While Hardy was endorsed by the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida, his statements drew criticism from the Florida Democratic Party Jewish Caucus and other Florida Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy garnered just 5.9 percent of the vote in Florida&#8217;s 20th Congressional District, where the primary has moved to a recount between the two leading Democrats, Dale Holness and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. The eventual Democratic nominee is expected to win the general election in the heavily blue district.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy&#8217;s defeat was a blow to anti-Israel progressives who have been gaining influence within the Democratic Party and who in September successfully pushed Democratic House leaders to remove Iron Dome funding from a spending bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Clinton health secretary and congresswoman Donna Shalala (D., Fla.) this week rescinded a $2,800 donation to unsuccessful Democratic House candidate Omari Hardy (Fla.) after the Washington Free Beacon reported &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"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-973246","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\/973246","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973246\/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=973246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}