E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Presidential Players: The Boston Globe’s seven-part series of articles on the life of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is so voluminous and detailed that it practically constitutes the screenplay for a multi-part television docudrama, a reporter and two political types decided over beers last week. The drinkers — there was a Kerry supporter among them —…
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News Joe Pulls in Cash, But Howard Dean Hits the Jackpot
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is hanging on to his presidential candidacy by the threads of his tzitzit after posting a second-quarter contributions filing that appears to have put him further back in the pack of Democratic contenders. Lieberman brought in “about $5 million and still counting” in the quarter that closed June 30, according to…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Penn Plotting: Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman stopped in Philadelphia on June 16 to headline a fundraiser for Republican mayoral candidate Sam Katz in what some observers are viewing as part of a Republican strategy to put the Keystone State — which went for Al Gore in 2000 — in the GOP column in 2004….
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News Dems Seek To Mobilize California Jews Against Recall
California Democrats are attempting to mobilize Jewish communal leaders against the recall of Governor Gray Davis as part of an apparent bid to deflect attention from Davis’s record to the question of whether recalling a sitting governor serves the state’s stability. Plans are in the works for a July 8 news conference at which a…
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News Issa Defends Record on Mideast
Rep. Darrell Issa, the San Diego Republican who is funding the recall drive against Governor Gray Davis, says his record on Israel is solid, and Democratic efforts to depict him as a pro-Palestinian extremist are “a smear.” Issa, a third-generation Lebanese-American, met with Yasser Arafat in April along with two other congressman in an attempt…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
So what did they eat at what was reportedly the first all-kosher White House dinner? Caterer David Dahan told the Forward that the food at the June 11 event — held in honor of the opening of the exhibit “Anne Frank the Writer: An Unfinished Story” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — was…
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News Dinner May Land Cantor in Pickle
In what experts say may be a violation of campaign finance laws, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, one of the top-ranking Republicans in the House, has failed to report a debt to a kosher restaurant. The restaurant, Stacks Deli, owned by a major Washington lobbyist, was the site of a $500-a-plate fundraiser organized for Cantor…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
The presidential campaign of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is trying to turn some of the concerns about his candidacy voiced in the Jewish community to his advantage in a fundraising pitch. “When Al Gore made me the first Jewish American to be nominated to a national political ticket, some people questioned whether I was the…
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