Brett Lieberman
By Brett Lieberman
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News Lieberman Still Part of GOP Convention Schedule
Republicans apparently couldn’t pass up the chance to include Democrat-turned-Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman as part of their convention program, and of course the chance to poke Democrats. Lieberman, who was scheduled to speak during Monday’s opening program that was abbreviated because of Hurricane Gustav, will speak Tuesday night, the Associated Press reports. The changing line-up…
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News Schumer Plans Florida Swing to Court Jewish Vote
Hoping to make up ground in a key battleground state, Democrats are sending in some of their big guns to court the Jewish vote. New York Senator Chuck Schumer will pinch hit for Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama in the Sunshine state this weeend. Schumer, architect of the Democrats’ gains in the Senate, will speak…
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News Slim Pickings in the Twin Cities
Even before John McCain and the GOP scaled back on this week’s Republican National Convention, there weren’t nearly as many public events geared toward Jewish voters on the schedule as the Democrats held last week in Denver. Republicans have been hoping to win over Jewish voters. The lack of events targeting Jewish or Israel issues…
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News GOP Convention May Give Coleman a Boost
Republicans hope that the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul may put the state in play for GOP presidential candidate John McCain. The state is considered a toss-up that leans Democratic. Democrats have won the state the last eight elections, including 1984, when Minnesotans stuck with hometown favorite Walter F. Mondale. The convention may give…
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News RJC Fashion Show Goes On Amid Scaled Back GOP Convention
With Hurricane/Tropical Storm Gustav barreling down on the Gulf Coast, Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain said that convention-goers should take off their Republican hats and put on their American hats in an effort to avoid the perception that the GOP is having a party at the same time of a potential national disaster. Much of today’s…
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News Democrats Pitch Big Tent in Bid To Draw in the Faithful
Denver — Opening up the Democratic convention, a Muslim imam offered a prayer in the name of “all the Prophets and Messengers of God.” A Reform rabbi invoked the Book of Leviticus’s admonition to be “compassionate neighbors and steadfast friends.” They were joined by a Buddhist reading from the Sutra Nipata, a Catholic leader, a…
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News Jimmy Carter Conspicuously Absent From Podium
Denver — Former president Jimmy Carter’s controversial views on Israel cost him a place on the podium at the Democratic Party convention in late August, senior Democratic operatives acknowledged to the Forward. Breaking with the tradition of giving speech time to living former presidents, convention organizers honored Carter with only a short video clip highlighting…
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News Dems Wonder What Happened to Their Good Jewish Boy
Denver — Jewish voters had much to be proud of in 2000. So did the state of Connecticut. The state’s senator, Joe Lieberman, the first American Jew nominated to a major political party’s presidential ticket, stood up at Los Angeles’s Staples Center and spoke of a “new frontier” in American politics. “We had front-row seats,”…
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