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(45,850 posts) Mon Feb 2, 2015, 08:36 PM Feb 2015

Likud hires top Republican strategist ahead of elections

Source: ToI

A leading American political strategist with deep ties to the Republican party was hired by the ruling Likud party and will serve as its media consultant ahead of the upcoming March 17 elections, Army Radio reported.

Vincent Harris, the CEO of the Austin-based firm Harris Media, currently serves as Chief Digital Strategist to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, and was highly active in the 2012 US presidential elections, where he handled online campaigning for candidates Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich.

Harris also worked in digital campaigning alongside Senator Ted Cruz in 2012 and Senator Mitch McConnell in 2014, significantly advancing social media presence and following for both US representatives.

The news of Harris’s joining with Likud comes amid a furor over a link between the V15 movement, a nonprofit Israeli group working to oust Netanyahu, and a former Democratic campaigner.

Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-hires-top-republican-strategist-ahead-of-elections/#ixzz3Qdb70XIu

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Mon Feb 2, 2015, 09:35 PM

Feb 2015

Rep. Lee Zeldin (D-NY) should be ashamed of himself.

So what if the national field director for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, Jeremy Bird, IS leading Israel's V15's get-out-the-vote effort?

Cruz & Zeldin's letter to the White House states that:
"There appears to be a danger that U.S. taxpayer funds are being used to directly shape the outcome of the upcoming Israeli election.."

Where is the evidence for this outrageous statement?

I have to wonder why a Democrat, any Democrat, would join the likes of Ted Cruz in even suggesting that Jeremy Bird helping out an Israeli get-out-the-vote campaign is the same as
"U.S. taxpayer funds are being used to directly shape the outcome of the upcoming Israeli election."

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