E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Bunk Buster: A Republican Jewish Coalition ad touting President Bush in Jewish newspapers has met a small problem: Its claims are directly contradicted by Bush and the White House. The ad, headlined “President Bush: Working for Peace. Working for a Secure Israel,” claims that an unnamed “historic agreement” concluded by Bush will “provide Israel with…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Figures released last week from the Congressional Budget Office show a record $422 billion U.S. budget deficit this year — and a projected 10-year deficit of $4.5 trillion if President Bush succeeds in getting Congress to make his tax cuts permanent. Democrats, including presidential nominee Senator John Kerry, were quick to seize on the statistics…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Sunshine State Scuttlebutt: The chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, Bush friend Fred Zeidman, has joined the Bush-Cheney campaign in Florida to help get out the president’s Jewish vote there. Zeidman said he is helping Florida Jewish outreach coordinator Diane Sembler, having resigned from the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition in order to…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
The White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign are denying claims that they may have violated the law by distributing a White House-generated booklet hailing the president’s record on Jewish issues at a campaign event. The taxpayer-funded booklet, titled “President George W. Bush: A Friend of the American Jewish Community,” was published by the White House…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Corsi Conciliation: Jerome Corsi, the co-author of the anti-John Kerry book “Unfit for Command” — who recently apologized publicly for some coarse comments about Muslims, Catholics and Jews that he posted on a right-wing Web site, freerepublic.com — called the Forward on Tuesday to attest to his pro-Jewish bona fides. “I have created two mutual…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Less than 48 hours had passed since CBS News broke the news about an FBI investigation involving the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and the lobbying powerhouse was facing its first public test. The setting was Sunday’s “community celebration” sponsored by Aipac, United Jewish Communities and the Republican Jewish Coalition. The list of expected guest…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Chosen Chicken: The National Jewish Democratic Council has a message for the Bush campaign’s Jewish surrogates, such as Senator Norm Coleman, Rep. Eric Cantor and campaign manager Ken Mehlman: “You’re yellow.” Trying to ruffle some feathers during the Republican National Convention, the group is claiming that the Bush campaign surrogates are running from a debate…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
A new Democratic poll suggests that Republicans are failing to improve on the anemic 21% of the Jewish vote garnered by President Bush in 2000. But if they make progress, it will be with the help of a cadre of prominent GOP insiders, including Lewis Eisenberg, co-chairman of the convention’s host committee. Eisenberg, a former…
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