E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Congressional Campaign: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is looking to the Jewish community to help it regain control of Congress, tapping Rep. Steve Israel of New York to head up an outreach effort. The campaign is designed to ensure that the House Democratic Caucus “is being aggressive in our message and our appeal to American…
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News Right-wing Jews Rally to Defense of Embattled DeLay
Even as embattled GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was reported to have turned on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican’s other right-wing Jewish allies are rallying to his defense. “DeLay is arguably the best friend Israel has in Congress,” said Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, which adamantly opposes the creation…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Jewish Vote Redux: Some 77% of American Jews voted for John Kerry in the 2004 election, according to a “white paper” that examines most of the polling, both partisan and non-partisan, during the election cycle. That number was not much of a shift from the 81% who voted for then Vice President Al Gore in…
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News Safe at Home
In the wake of Terri Schiavo’s death, conservative Christian activists are pushing Republican lawmakers to detonate the so-called nuclear option — a change of Senate rules that would block Democrats from filibustering judicial nominations. As the Senate returned to session this week, several Christian conservative groups were running ads urging the Republicans to eliminate the…
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News Joe’s Filibuster Shift Shows Senate’s Polarization
For one measure of the toxic, partisan atmosphere in the Republican-controlled Senate, consider the predicament of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman. In 1995, the arch-centrist joined a fellow Democrat, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, in proposing a rule change that would have kept the 60 votes presently required for “cloture” of a Senate filibuster, but decreased…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Schiavo Set-to: Some Connecticut liberals are seizing on Senator Joseph Lieberman’s stance approving of congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo matter to press their case that Lieberman is out of touch with Nutmeg State voters. Lieberman, one of only a few Jewish lawmakers to approve of Congress’s bid to override the Florida courts and restore…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Middle East Mayor: Rep. Anthony Weiner, running in a large Democratic field for the party’s nod to challenge New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, has been focusing on issues of interest to Jewish voters as the key to assembling an outer-borough ethnic coalition. “The Democratic Party is the anti-terrorism party,” the Queens lawmaker said…
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News Jewish Lawmakers Dominate Debate Over Terri Schiavo
Jewish Democratic lawmakers took the lead this week in demanding that Congress stay out of the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who has been kept alive for 15 years by a feeding tube. In particular, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida took aim at President Bush. She criticized him for signing the…
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