E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Saddam’s Skeletons: A remark about Iraq former Vermont governor Howard Dean made on television is drawing the scorn of a Jewish communal leader. In an interview late last month on Iowa Public Television, Dean made the case for sending American troops to stop situations of genocide, including the butchery going on in Liberia. But at…
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News Democratic Council Moves On Web Site’s Mideast Bulletin
A Jewish Democratic group is seeking to remove what it considers “unbalanced” material from the Web site of a group it is calling “an important and influential progressive organization.” The National Jewish Democratic Council is asking its members to contact MoveOn.org, a grassroots left-liberal organization that uses the Internet to build electronic advocacy groups, about…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Fierce Words: President Bush lied in making the case for the war in Iraq, and in at least one respect the situation there resembles Vietnam, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry suggested to reporters Monday. The Democratic presidential candidate, who spoke to the press in a conference call, said the president has “a clear credibility gap with…
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News Specter Squeezed From Left, Right On Support for Bush’s Bench Picks
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is getting the political squeeze from both the left and right over his support of President Bush’s anti-abortion judicial nominees. The jam has Democrats predicting that Specter will lose the Jewish vote and fail in his bid for a fifth term. The nation’s senior Jewish lawmaker and a senior member of…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Hamptons Holiday: Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is spending the weekend of July 26 and 27 in New York’s posh Hamptons resort area, in particular Westhampton, where he is speaking on the Sabbath at the Westhampton Synagogue and attending a fundraiser on Sunday at The Prime Grill. The Orthodox synagogue is led by Rabbi Marc Schneier,…
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News Spotlight Shifts to Lieberman’s Children
The presidential campaign of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman lost its two top finance staffers this week in a staff purge that drew attention to the six-figure salaries the campaign was paying to Lieberman’s children for their work as fundraisers. Finance director Shari Yost and her deputy, Jennifer Yocham, resigned, in what the campaign described as…
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News Bush Bid for Jews’ Votes Zeroes In on Gen X
The White House is nurturing a cadre of Generation X Republican Jewish activists, many of them Orthodox, as part of a concerted strategy to boost Republican strength among Jewish voters — and Jewish political donors — in the run-up to the 2004 election. In private conversations recently, Bush aides have voiced hopes that the president’s…
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News Jewish Voters Still Overwhelmingly Democratic
Jewish Democrats become apoplectic when they hear Republicans swaggeringly predict a shift in the Jewish vote toward the Republican column. The overwhelming preponderance of polling, Democrats say, supports the opposite view — that Jews, alone among white groups, remain overwhelmingly Democratic. Last month, an independent poll for the Ipsos/Cook Political Report again confirmed the Democrats’…
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