E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News Black-Jewish Tensions Mar Mayoral Campaign
A dispute over racially divisive remarks allegedly made by a city employee is threatening to raise black-Jewish tensions around the Philadelphia mayoral race. Last week, the City of Brotherly Love’s Democratic mayor, John Street, reprimanded an African-American city official who allegedly complained last month in a city commerce department meeting that “Jewish lawyers” and “Jewish…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
WASHINGTON — North Carolina Senator John Edwards launched into an attack on big pharmaceutical companies last Thursday at the “Take Back America” conference in Washington, D.C. Getting on his populist mojo, Edwards told the left-leaning crowd that packed a ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, “The Democratic Party has to stand up to the big…
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News Lieberman: Jews Should Overcome Anxieties
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman has some advice for the nervous folks in the Jewish community who say the country is not ready for his presidential candidacy. “I urge those in the Jewish community who are anxious about it to have faith in America. I do,” Lieberman told the Forward in a telephone interview. A number…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
A prominent Florida Democrat is challenging remarks made by Republican Rep. Mark Foley, who has been blaming Democrats for spreading rumors that he is gay. “It’s my understanding that a lot of the rumors about Rep. Foley were not generated by Democrats, but by the extreme right faction of the Republican Party in Florida,” said…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
We can’t tell you what Massachusetts Senator John Kerry said when he addressed Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century, a group of young Democrats better known as DL21C; the presidential hopeful’s campaign kept the May 20 speech in New York off the record. We can, however, tell you about how the speech was received. Speaking…
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News Long List of Experts Advising Presidential Hopefuls
A decade ago, when the Democrats set out to reform healthcare, they turned to one person above all others: Ira Magaziner. The New England management consultant, charged in the early 1990s with helping then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton reform the nation’s healthcare system, had a reputation as a genius — at least until his proposals…
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News Dems Propose Variety of Plans To Reform Healthcare
The last Democrat in the White House, President Clinton, hoped to make healthcare reform a centerpiece of his first administration. But the plan his office produced proved so mind-numbingly long, complex and abstruse that it became a symbol for everything that was wrong with “big government.” In 1994, his proposal was resoundingly defeated. For years,…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s May 13 appearance in front of a group of young Democrats in New York prompted divergent reactions in the national media. The Associated Press led its story about Lieberman’s speech to 400 supporters of Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century by noting the “hissing” and “jeers” that greeted the candidate’s response…
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