E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Dean Damage Control: Former Vermont governor Howard Dean has hired the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to do outreach for him in the Jewish community. Matthew Dorf, a partner in Rabinowitz Media, a Washington public relations firm, has been hired as a senior adviser to the campaign. Before joining Rabinowitz as…
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News Gephardt Backs ‘Fence’ Regardless of Path
Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri is offering a decidedly different position from President Bush on Israel’s controversial West Bank security barrier. Gephardt told the Forward that he has strongly supported the fence — regardless of exactly where it runs — ever since it was first proposed by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. He said he…
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News Candidates Turn to Clinton Advisers
Who are the top economic advisers of the leading Democratic presidential candidates? Well, naturally enough, many of the same experts who were the top economic advisers of the last Democratic president. The following is a list provided by the top five campaigns. Retired general Wesley Clark: Brookings Institution economist Henry Aaron, former Treasury secretary Robert…
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News Dems Divided Over Details on Economy
Voters can be forgiven if they didn’t notice too many differences among the economic policies proposed by the top Democratic presidential candidates at their debate in New York last week. One guy who was once in the candidates’ shoes didn’t notice many differences, either. “I was in 39 debates in 1987-88,” former Massachusetts governor and…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Debate Drama: The reports are in: At the CNBC/Wall Street Journal debate in New York City on September 25, the candidate who took the most punches was the frontrunner, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, and not the newcomer, retired general Wesley Clark. Noticeably missing from the pileup on Dean, however, was Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman,…
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News Wesley Clark Jumps in With Kosher-Style Kickoff
It was only in his 20s that Wesley Clark, the retired general and Iraq war critic, discovered his Jewish ancestry. But the newest entry in the Democratic presidential race has wasted no time in bringing his fledgling campaign to Jewish precincts — and by this week he seemed poised to inherit some Jewish voters uncomfortable…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Hello, Goodbye: Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is welcoming retired general Wesley Clark into the Democratic presidential race even as he is insisting that in at least one way, former Vermont governor Howard Dean is outside the Democratic Party. During a conference call September 19 with reporters from Jewish publications, a relaxed-sounding Lieberman had kind words…
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News Rabbi Facing Fraud Charges Plans Return to Fundraising
A Brooklyn rabbi charged with defrauding the federal government of almost $700,000 is proclaiming his innocence and vowing that his legal troubles have only temporarily halted his prodigious political fundraising. Milton Balkany, the dean of an Orthodox girls’ school in Boro Park, surrendered to authorities on August 26 to face charges that he used a…
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