General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnthony Weiner, Panderer extraordinaire
<snip>
On the campaign trail, Mr. Weiner has sided with the ultra-Orthodox community against Mayor Michael R. Bloombergs effort to regulate the practice of circumcisions that involve oral suction to clean the wound, which health authorities say has led infants to contract, and on occasion die from, herpes. He has spoken sympathetically about Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, and the Rubashkin family, which has faced a variety of legal problems connected with its kosher meat businesses. And he has dropped Yiddish phrases, like kishkes, meaning guts, into his talks to Jewish audiences.
<snip>
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/nyregion/courting-group-of-voters-with-a-strict-moral-code-weiner-faces-a-challenge.html?pagewanted=all
Seriously? Jettisoning newborns for a few votes? And Pollard?
JI7
(89,276 posts)he has always been very pro israel and he was one of the biggest critics of helen thomas .
cali
(114,904 posts)making sure that infants aren't endangered by a very unsanitary practice? Weiner isn't a practicing Jew, in any case.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)>>>>The ultra-Orthodox Jewish community could be crucial to Mr. Weiners bid because its adherents are a growing citywide force 40 percent of the citys 1.1 million Jews, according to the latest population survey by the UJA-Federation of New York. Ultra-Orthodox Jews are coveted by candidates because they tend to vote, and they are among the last communities that tend to vote in blocs, following the guidance of communal leaders.>>>>
Weiner has a long history of pandering to and servicing this bloc which votes in incredibly large #s and votes *as* a bloc. There are no other Jewish candidates in the mayor's race and certainly none w. whom this community has this kind of history.
JI7
(89,276 posts)never influence health care. somebody should ask him if it would be ok for christians to deny other women abortion rights because they feel their religion is against it.