Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Rep. Steve Kagen Earns a B+
As the 2008 contest swings into gear, Campaign Confidential is busy collecting some Congressional report cards. Several Jewish freshmen from swing districts are expected to face stiff competition, including Democratic physician Steve Kagen of Wisconsin. Last time around, Kagen beat out the the state’s Assembly Speaker, Republican John Gard, for an open seat in the…
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News In Case You Missed It, Feel More than Free to Call Rudy a Hawk
I have a story up this week about the prominent neocons tapped by presidential contender Rudy Giuliani as foreign policy advisers. In case you had any doubt, our headline – “Giuliani Stacks Campaign Staff With a Who’s Who Of Mideast Hawks” – is just the message Team Rudy is looking to send. On Wednesday night,…
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News What Happens When Mom Goes To Congress?
The Washington Post has a great story today about the record (albeit still pretty miniscule) number of women in Congress with children under the age of 13. The grand total, by the way, is 10. This is in a year when the total number of women in Congress is itself at a record high, with…
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News The 2008 Money-Train
Second quarter fundraising results are in, including for the Jewish freshmen in the House. Here’s the quick summary of year-to-date fundraising totals; Ron Klein: $1.3 million Gabrielle Giffords: $908,494 John Yarmuth: $600,000 Paul Hodes: $550,000 Steve Kagen: $420,000 Steve Cohen: $137,000 While Klein, Giffords, Yarmuth, Hodes and Kagen are part of the DCCC’s Frontline program…
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News Happy Birthday B Rapoport!
It’s not every day that someone hits the big 9-0, and when the said person is one of the highest rolling (and most loved) Democratic donors, the pols turn out in droves. Bernard Rapoport, a nice Jewish boy from Waco, Texas who grew up to earn a fortune in the insurance business, was feted at…
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News Giuliani Stacks Campaign Staff With a Who’s Who Of Mideast Hawks
As the roster of Republican presidential hopefuls grapples with the seeming implosion of one-time front-runner John McCain’s candidacy, Rudolph Giuliani is taking steps to claim his place as the field’s leading hawk. The former New York City mayor announced last week that he had assembled a team of foreign policy advisers featuring several prominent neoconservatives,…
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News At Least McCain Will Always Have the RJC
Floundering presidential contender John McCain is scheduled to speak at a breakfast of the Republican Jewish Coalition in New York a week from Friday. Apparently, a $1,000 donation to the RJC buys a picture with the much-fallen front-runner… As one Republican operative has snarkily observed to me: “Why would he waste his time raising $$$…
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News Reform Movement Steps Up Aliyah Efforts
As a Reform Jew who scarcely visited Israel in three decades and whose vision of retirement once tended more toward New England than Netanya, Robert Bernstein is not the likeliest candidate for making aliyah. But after raising three daughters who are passionate about Israel and planning to study there before college, Bernstein, 54, has decided…
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