What is going on here?
Jewish Federation criticized for Cheney invite
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
The honor of hosting Vice President Dick Cheney for an "important Middle East policy address" put a local Jewish federation on a collision course with Democrats who wonder why the nonpartisan group would welcome such a blatantly political event.
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While no one from the White House or the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign returned phone calls for comment, the head of the Palm Beach County Republican Party said Cheney's visit is part of organized efforts to lure historically Democratic Jewish voters to the Republican camp.
"We want the Jewish vote," said Sid Dinerstein, chairman of the county Republican Party. "We have earned the Jewish vote."
Meanwhile, the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County has prominent messages on its website to the effect of "we didn't invite the guy!"
Oh, it was the Jewish Federation of SOUTH Palm Beach County. Which has nothing about it on their website whatsoever.
Very confusing. Did they have amnesia?
Updated to add: You can read the text of his speech that day here on the White House website. It seems like a lot of puffery upon first glance, at least to me it does.
