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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…

By E.J. Kessler May 23, 2003 | 3 min read
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Texas Democrats See Jewish Seats at Risk

Those Texas Democratic state legislators who went on the lam last week to kill a Republican redistricting plan were defending, among other things, Jewish political representation, one Houston Democrat told the Forward. Fifty-one lawmakers slipped across state lines in the dead of night on Mother’s Day, May 11, to deny Republicans the quorum needed to…

By E.J. Kessler May 23, 2003 | 3 min read
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Debate Planned for Sabbath Is Postponed

The New York Times is rescheduling an “informal debate” to which it invited the Democratic presidential candidates. In a May 1 letter obtained by the Forward, Times associate editor John Darnton invited the candidates to participate in the daytime event on Saturday, June 21 — in the middle of the Jewish Sabbath. Connecticut Senator Joseph…

By E.J. Kessler May 16, 2003 | 3 min read
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Much has been made of the barbs recently traded by former Vermont governor Howard Dean and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry over their respective postures toward the Iraq war, among other issues. Now a supporter of another presidential candidate, Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, has decided to join the fray. George Spitz, Kucinich’s chief supporter in New…

By E.J. Kessler May 16, 2003 | 3 min read
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Illinois Senate Candidates Eyeing State’s Jewish Voters

Illinois State Comptroller Dan Hynes is considered the early favorite for the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed his state’s Republican senator, Peter Fitzgerald, who decided last month not to run for re-election. The son of another popular politician, Hynes, 34, can count on the support of Cook County’s Democratic machine and his own…

By E.J. Kessler May 9, 2003 | 5 min read
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Florida Senator Bob Graham, one of the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, may not be gaining as many contributors as he needs to win the party nod, if one Florida source is correct. “He’s picked up a lot of people, but nothing near what he should have picked up,” said a South Florida Democratic county chairman,…

By E.J. Kessler and Forward Staff May 9, 2003 | 4 min read
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Legal Twist: Crown Heights Killer Asking To Get Away With Murder

It was a legal tactic breathtaking in its chutzpah. Some compared it to the old joke about the fellow who murders his parents, then asks for the mercy of the court because he is an orphan. But few doubted it might work. Through 12 years and two trials, Lemrick Nelson, the black youth arrested, tried…

By E.J. Kessler May 2, 2003 | 5 min read
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When CNN military analyst Wesley Clark — a former general who is often mentioned as a potential Democratic presidential candidate — took a new job recently as chairman of the board of WaveCrest Laboratories, pundits pronounced him out of the political game. Not quite. The post just might help build Clark’s credentials among environmentalists. WaveCrest…

By E.J. Kessler May 2, 2003 | 3 min read

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