The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has endorsed Democrat candidate Letitia Plummer for Harris County Judge.
Plummer was endorsed in February by the group Gov. Greg Abbott has designated a foreign terrorist organization.
In November of last year, Gov. Abbott declared CAIR “was founded as a ‘front group’ for ‘Hamas and its support network,” quoting a statement apparently made by the FBI. “CAIR is an example of conscious efforts by ‘the US-based Hamas network to regenerate itself’ and continue acting ‘under new guises’ in the United States.”
Abbott also stated that “Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of CAIR, has boasted that American Muslims are ‘ready to move to the next phase,’ and that within the next 15 years the Muslim community ‘will have 50,000 – an army – of these people’ who ‘will design [Islam’s] image, protect the truth and the news, … many of these people will run for public office, and they will become lawmakers’ to advance Sharia law in America.'”
The Society of the Muslim Brothers, also known as the “Muslim Brotherhood,” has also come under this designation.
Plummer was the first Muslim woman elected to the Houston City Council, stating at the time, “I learned to pray in Arabic. This is who I am. I own that.”
However, Plummer also strikes a radically leftist note, telling Chron, “Harris County is completely different from what it was 10 years ago. I think other people will be more centrist. This is not a time to be centrist.”
Indeed, one of Plummer’s most recent Facebook post‘s is in celebration of LGBT “Pride” Month.
In their post endorsing Plummer, CAIR stated that Plummer was “a dedicated public servant and small business owner” who has “championed equity, opportunity, and accountability.” CAIR also congratulated Plummer in 2020 for her election as “Houston’s First Muslim Council Woman.”
If elected, Plummer will be “the most powerful Black woman in Texas,” according to Karthik Soora, co-founder of the Houston Progressive Caucus.
Plummer faces Republican nominee Orlando Sanchez, a veteran and former victim of communist oppression in Cuba, in the November General Election this year.
