E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News Coleman Bucks White House on Drilling
Minnesota’s new senator, Norm Coleman, one of only two Jewish Republicans in the Senate, raised eyebrows last week when he bucked the party line to vote against President Bush’s proposal to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Coleman is considered something of a protégé of Bush and his chief political strategist Karl…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Former Colorado senator Gary Hart certainly looks like he’s serious about running for president. Hart, who has been giving foreign policy addresses around the nation as he tests the waters for a run, appeared at the Westchester County (N.Y.) Democratic Committee’s gala dinner March 20, where he spoke briefly about the war in Iraq. There…
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News ‘Mr. February’? Joe Makes Bid For Early Wins
Call him “Mr. February.” Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s presidential campaign appears to have developed a strategy for locking in early support in states that are moving up their presidential primaries next year. He’s making a strong bid for the “middle tier” states, including Arizona, Oklahoma, Delaware and Virginia, that are holding primaries in February. The…
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News Al Sharpton: I Want To Be Considered On the Merits
Ask Reverend Al Sharpton questions about public policy, and he gives terse, politically circumspect, moderate-left answers. Ask the controversial civil-rights activist and would-be Democratic presidential candidate whether he is being held to an unfair standard because of his race and history, however, and you get an earful. It’s an animated, often funny, performance, even if…
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News U.S. Troops Stationed in Israel Shoulder Unique Tax Burden
American servicemen manning Patriot missile batteries in Israel are having their wages garnished for federal taxes, even though other troops stationed in what is likely to become the Iraq war theater are exempted from such levies. That, said Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman of New York, is an injustice that should be rectified. “Usually, when we…
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News In Crowded Field, Candidates Are Scrambling for Big Donors
As the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination gains momentum, the nine declared candidates in the field are in an unusually tough scramble for the backing of wealthy donors who fuel the nation’s campaign apparatus. But this year’s Democratic campaign is not like other years’ campaigns. Given the size of the field, candidates are…
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News Maverick Democrat Kucinich Says Iraq War Is ‘About Oil’
The newest entrant into the 2004 Democratic presidential field started out as a distinct long-shot, and his first major salvo of the campaign isn’t likely to increase his odds of success. But Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is sticking to his, um, guns. “Why is the U.S. going it alone? I say it’s about oil,”…
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News Gary Hart Says ‘Dual Loyalty’ Barb Was Not Aimed at Jews
Former Colorado senator Gary Hart insists he never meant to impugn the patriotism of any particular ethnic group of Americans — especially Jews — when he said in a speech last week that certain Americans can’t separate their “loyalties to their original homelands” from their loyalty to America. It was only a “general proposition,” Hart…
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