Are you sure they aren't the Cubans? If I were in Smith's shoes that's where I'd be raising money, cause he went down there and fought for them during the Elian Gonzales thing at the same time Sheila Jackson Lee was working for Castro's side.
Democrats want Smith to win his primary for the same reason Republicans want Reno to win hers.
This is becoming a bizzare election year. In Alabama, hundreds of Republicans crossed over and voted for Yusuf Salaam, a Black Muslim, in a statehouse primary (Salaam won, by 138 votes).
He seems to think Americans of any stripe (including Jews) do not have the right to stand up against that sort of mischief.
And it bothers him when the GOP courts Jewish votes. I think The Reform Party is more his style.