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Direct mail coming from Nancy Pelosi’s House Majority PAC appears to accentuate but not modify the size of a Jewish Republican congressional candidate’s nose and depicts the candidate with loads of hundred dollar bills. One of the three mailers show a digitally-altered David Richter with a suit jacket lined with money, with additional cash in his pockets and in a cardboard box behind him. The others portray a similar tone. “The photo-shopped caricatures of me portrayed in these mailers, always surrounded by piles of cash, is a well-known dog whistle to those who want to further divide our country in...

Why is a Jewish Republican group hosting a supporter of Islamic terrorism and enemy of Israel? That’s a good question. And one that has been asked before of the Republican Jewish Coalition of Los Angeles (RJC). On Monday, September 26, the RJC will be proudly hosting California Director of Finance Tom Campbell. And while the RJC shirked its responsibility of objecting when Campbell was appointed to this position by Governor Schwarzenegger, it is more outrageous that the Jewish group is now hosting of this man. Why? Because Tom Campbell has been and remains an unapologetic opponent of Israel, and—worse—an unapologetic...

Jewish Telegraphic Agency In second term, Cantor rises rapidly in Republican leadership Monday, December 16, 2002    By: Matthew E. Berger Two years ago, Eric Cantor was one of 435, a freshman lawmaker on Capitol Hill. Now, with only one term under his belt, Cantor (R-Va.) is a leader, the chief deputy whip of the Republican caucus and the only Jewish Republican in the House. Cantor, 39, was appointed to the prestigious post of chief deputy whip earlier this month, a position previously held by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), now the majority whip, and by the current speaker of the House,...

The "Eric Cantor" sandwich was unveiled January 23 at Stacks, Washington's new kosher deli, at a fundraiser for the newly appointed deputy House majority whip. The sandwich chosen to carry the name of the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives was a tuna-based stacker — not quite a power lunch befitting the person who GOP leaders hope will reinforce the growing trend of Jews switching their partisan loyalty from Democratic to Republican. That may explain why Cantor asked Stacks to switch his eponymous sandwich from tuna to roast beef on challah, a deli special that exudes Jewish power....

With just a hint of a southern drawl in his voice, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) readily admits that few would expect a national spokesman for Jewish Republicans to hail from central Virginia. Synagogues are hard to spot in the urban, suburban and rural 7th district of Virginia, an area dotted with Baptist and Episcopal churches. The only other Jewish Republican in Congress, Rep. Ben Gilman, who spent the past 30 years representing upstate New York, will retire at the end of this session. For Cantor, who was elected in 2000, the reasons for his Republican loyalty are simple. To him,...