{"id":363640,"date":"2010-02-25T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77728"},"modified":"2010-02-25T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:01:20","slug":"the-return-of-sami-al-arian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363640","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Sami Al-Arian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Gerstein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/33541.html\">has the rundown<\/a> on how a Muslim academic, whose political connections probably sunk 2004 Senate candidate Betty Castor in Florida, has won a starring role in California&#8217;s combative GOP Senate primary. Carly Fiorina&#8217;s campaign is hammering Tom Campbell, who recently entered the Senate race and has become the frontrunner, over his ties to Al-Arian.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply troubled by these reports. I think the people of California deserve to know more about Tom Campbell\u2019s association not only with Sami Al-Arian but also &#8230; with other people of questionable record,\u201d Fiorina said in a statement. \u201cWhat is clear is that Tom Campbell and I couldn\u2019t disagree more when it comes to policy regarding our nation\u2019s relationship with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Fiorina campaign held a call today with skeptical-sounding reporters, who were unsure what Campbell had to answer for given the passage of time from Al-Arian&#8217;s controversies. &#8220;There&#8217;s a definite problem here with Tom Campbell in terms of who he&#8217;s taking money from and who supports him,&#8221; said Marty     Wilson, Fiorina&#8217;s campaign manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Gerstein has the rundown on how a Muslim academic, whose political connections probably sunk 2004 Senate candidate Betty Castor in Florida, has won a starring role in California&#8217;s combative GOP Senate primary. Carly Fiorina&#8217;s campaign is hammering Tom Campbell, who recently entered the Senate race and has become the frontrunner, over his ties to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}