{"id":76905,"date":"2015-10-13T18:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T02:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76905"},"modified":"2015-10-13T18:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T02:55:51","slug":"forward-republican-chaos-has-washington-jews-wondering-whos-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76905","title":{"rendered":"Forward: Republican Chaos Has Washington Jews Wondering Who’s in Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Kampeas writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\u201cThe community has a history of building relationships, and we\u2019ll reach out and build relationships where they do not exist, not just in D.C. but in field offices,\u201d said Richard Foltin, the American Jewish Committee\u2019s national and legislative affairs director. \u201cTo the extent that I have concerns, it\u2019s having voices who oppose compromise and who are not comfortable with the notion that governing is about reaching accommodation both within the party and the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n

…The AJC\u2019s Foltin named immigration reform, voting rights and energy security as issues the AJC and the broader community want addressed in the longer run.<\/p>\n

…The Republican Jewish Coalition spokesman, Mark McNulty, said his group had ties into virtually every caucus member and was ready to educate anyone who got the slot.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re here, we have the resources to educate people,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a lot of confidence in the resources our legislative team has developed over the years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds to me like the agenda of these Jewish groups is not congruent with what I most want for America — immigration restriction, and majority rights over those of disgruntled minorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Kampeas writes: \u201cThe community has a history of building relationships, and we\u2019ll reach out and build relationships where they do not exist, not just in D.C. but in field offices,\u201d said Richard Foltin, the American Jewish Committee\u2019s national and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews","category-republicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76906,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76905\/revisions\/76906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}