{"id":6744,"date":"2023-10-31T00:34:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2023-10-31T02:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T02:02:36","slug":"congressman-pocan-comes-out-in-support-of-antisemites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6744","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Pocan Comes Out In Support of Antisemites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/10\/30\/congressman-pocan-comes-out-in-support-of-antisemites\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=congressman-pocan-comes-out-in-support-of-antisemites\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/10\/30\/congressman-pocan-comes-out-in-support-of-antisemites\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=congressman-pocan-comes-out-in-support-of-antisemites<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/mark-pocan\/\">Good for Wisconsin Right Now for catching this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkPocan\/status\/1718697249348157655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pocan wrote<\/a>, \u201cApologies for my ill-informed colleague from WI\u2026 He doesn\u2019t speak for us. @derrickvanorden\u2019s bigoted religious rhetoric is his own. Wisconsin is better than him.\u201d He also trashed Van Orden as not really being from Wisconsin when, actually, Van Orden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanordenforcongress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lives on a farm\u00a0<\/a>in the La Crosse area of Wisconsin. He and his wife\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apg-wi.com\/price_county_review\/news\/business\/retired-navy-seal-opens-butternut-cafe-in-downtown-butternut\/article_4c24ff10-5c30-11e7-a9fa-676ca67cabd8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened a cafe<\/a>\u00a0in Butternut, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that what the buffoonish Pocan labels \u201cbigoted religious rhetoric\u201d was Van Orden criticizing anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to a tweet that Van Orden wrote that said, \u201cThere is no place in congress for antisemites. This woman is supporting a terrorist organization under the guise of humanitarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/10\/30\/congressman-pocan-comes-out-in-support-of-antisemites\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=congressman-pocan-comes-out-in-support-of-antisemites Good for Wisconsin Right Now for catching this. Pocan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6745,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions\/6745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}