{"id":92568,"date":"2022-03-02T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=92568"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:02:00","slug":"georgia-congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-no-regrets-for-speaking-at-event-led-by-white-nationalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=92568","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene: No regrets for speaking at event led by white nationalist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pulse.ncpolicywatch.org\/2022\/03\/01\/marjorie-taylor-greene-spoke-at-an-event-led-by-a-white-nationalist-and-has-no-regrets\/#sthash.SyVIoQS2.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">NC Policy Watch: <\/a>&#8220;Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is doubling down on her decision to give a speech at a far-right conference with ties to white supremacists over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement released Sunday night, Greene argued that she went to talk to audience members about \u201cAmerica First\u201d policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to focus on people, not labels,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to focus on protecting the nuclear family, our border, our jobs, and our children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Greene\u2019s attendance at the event brought critical statements from Republicans like U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as a former county chairman in her own congressional district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romney said during an interview with CNN that \u201canybody that would sit down with white nationalists and speak at their conference was certainly missing a few IQ points.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greene was in Florida to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, but made a surprise appearance at the America First Political Action Conference, which was organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Both conferences were in Orlando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fuentes also attended the 2017 white nationalist \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where James Alex Fields Jr, a neo-Nazi, ran his car into counterprotesters, killing one.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC Policy Watch: &#8220;Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is doubling down on her decision to give a speech at a far-right conference with ties to white supremacists over the weekend. In a statement released Sunday night, Greene argued that she went to talk to audience members about \u201cAmerica First\u201d policies. \u201cWe\u2019re going to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92569,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92568\/revisions\/92569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}