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What do Amy Acton and The Columbus Foundation have in common with a documented terrorist organization?
They funded the U.S.-based organization known as the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR is an American Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. It is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with regional offices nationwide.
CAIR had agreed to settle lawsuits from former board members and employees instead of producing documents that could reveal foreign funding sources, despite a court ruling that such information was within the scope of discovery. Hamas-linked organization CAIR Inc. won’t reveal where their funding is coming from
In August 2017, Dr. Acton joined The Columbus Foundation as an officer in its Community Research and Grants Management Department. She left in February 2019, when Gov. Mike DeWine appointed her director of the Ohio Department of Health. She led the state's early COVID-19 response and resigned in June 2020.
Amy Acton and The Columbus Foundation granted Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio about $272,000 in 2017, and $243,000 in 2018. Planned Parenthood performs abortions.
Amy Acton and The Columbus Foundation provided CAIR Ohio $50,000 in 2017 and $75,000 in 2018.
Amy Acton will not debate Vivek Ramaswamy; why? It could be she is concerned with providing answers to her involvement in the $125,000 grant to The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
In 2008, the FBI suspended its formal outreach with CAIR. The bureau said it would not treat CAIR as a liaison partner until it could resolve whether CAIR or its executives were still connected to Hamas. CAIR honored Al-Arian in 2014. He had been convicted of providing support to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014. FBI Document Depicting Relationship Between CAIR and Terror Group Hamas Published | Police Magazine
On November 18, 2025, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. His office said this would allow heightened enforcement against the groups and their affiliates and bar them from buying or acquiring land in Texas. The proclamation called CAIR an Islamist organization and cited the FBI as saying it was founded as a "front group" for "Hamas and its support network" in the United States.
On December 8, 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida issued an executive order designating the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations for the purposes of that order. CAIR sued, calling the order unconstitutional. A federal judge blocked the order on First Amendment grounds. On September 29, 2026, DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet designated CAIR a domestic terrorist group under a new state law.
Ohio Value Voters is calling upon Vivek Ramaswamy as Ohio’s next governor to follow the lead of Texas and Florida and issue an executive order declaring CAIR a foreign terrorist organization.
Ohio Value Voters encourages voters across the Buckeye State to support and vote for Vivek Ramaswamy as the next Governor of Ohio. Endorsement - Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio Governor
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