E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Leading Ladies: First lady Laura Bush and would-be first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry both spoke to United Jewish Communities’ Lion of Judah conference this week, a gathering that brought 1,300 of the nation’s top female Jewish philanthropists to the capital. Both women were asked to speak about philanthropy, and did. Bush, however, gave a full-blown…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
As the presidential campaign entered its final stretch, the candidates and their surrogates were concentrating harder than ever on bringing their messages to the Jewish community in swing states, especially in Florida. President Bush attended a dinner Monday at the Boca Raton home of Ned Siegel, a wealthy Republican donor who is heavily involved in…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
In Las Vegas, the FBI is investigating reports that a Republican-backed voter outreach firm destroyed forms it had collected from voters who had registered as Democrats. In York, Pa., vandals repeatedly have sprayed anti-Bush and pro-Kerry slogans on the “Republican Victory” headquarters. In Duval County, Fla., civil rights organizations complained that early-voting sites were placed…
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Culture CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
In an unprecedented effort to boost young Jewish voter turnout, a Jewish Democratic group is circulating an edgy, animated Internet video that relies on biting humor and, critics say, unfair anti-Republican stereotypes. Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, says his group commissioned the satirical cartoon, “Bubbie Versus the GOP,” in order…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Nice Save: During the presidential debate in St. Louis, President Bush made a comment about Israel that cheered his neoconservative Jewish supporters, who prefer his thumb-in-the-eye approach to the Europeans to the multilateralism supported by Senator John Kerry. “You know, I’ve made some decisions on Israel that are unpopular,” Bush said. “I wouldn’t deal with…
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Culture CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
CLEVELAND — Ohio is often described as an electoral battleground where domestic policies are key. Quite suddenly, though, Israel and the Middle East have become hot topics here in the Buckeye State. Senator John Edwards and Vice President Richard Cheney took time during their debate here Tuesday to spar over Iraq and to cast their…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
George Bush, Truman Democrat?: During the first presidential debate last week, Senator John Kerry chided President Bush for not heeding the advice of a Republican former president: his father. “You know, the president’s father did not go into Iraq, into Baghdad, beyond Basra,” Kerry said in words that clearly rankled Bush. “And the reason he…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Even as Senator John Kerry suggests that better diplomacy could have kept America out of war in Iraq, his advisers are warning that the Democrat could wind up ordering military intervention against another Middle Eastern power: Iran. “John Kerry has been crystal clear that a nuclear Iran is intolerable to the U.S.,” the head of…
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