Nancy Lesic - who is the PR cheerleader for the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the Port Authority, and other Governmental and Corporate interests in Cleveland, has become overly familiar with me during the last few weeks. Where she got my email I don’t know, but she’s been spamming me with the likes of this Israel item for her client Joe Cimperman.
It is true that both Mr. Kucinich and Mr. Cimperman have received the vast majority of their campaign money from donors who are not interested in, or located in Ohio’s 10th Congressional District.
Why are these persons donating to Joe and Dennis? Not because their donors are interested in the 10th District. Their donors are interested in what the congress does in DC.
Mr.Kucinich gets a lot of money from people who like his Department of Peace, or his moves to Impeach Cheney and Bush, or his making the effort to visit Syria.
Mr. Cimperman has received almost all of his money from donors who are not associated with the 10th District.
What do Mr. Cimperman’s donors want in DC that they don’t feel Mr. Kucinich is providing?
On JoeCimperman.com (under news releases ) [1] you will find the full piece in the photo above. In the “news release” Ms. Lesic mentions the Peoples Weekly World [2] newspaper, but didn’t give any link to the “offensive” article. I looked on PWW but couldn’t find any Kucinich/Cimperman - Israel comment.
I remember attending the Israel Lobby discussion at Case [3] last fall. Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt discussed AIPAC [4] and their exceptionally powerful and purposeful [5] lobby effort.
So, maybe what Ms Lesic has misunderstood, is that AIPAC - the PAC - doesn’t give money to support candidates who they feel are the most supportive of Israel. What AIPAC does is organize and encourage it’s members to support particular candidates, particularly candidates who are running against incumbents who are less supportive of Israel than AIPAC feels is acceptable. Candidates like Dennis Kucinich who visited Syria.
I am surprised that Ms. Lesic, a public relations professional and lobbyist herself, isn’t familiar with AIPAC, the second most powerful lobby in the USA.
Ms Lesic, you know that this is what every lobby does - what’s all the hush hush about?
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Links:
[1] http://joecimperman.com/press.asp
[2] http://www.google.com/custom?q=kucinich+cimperman&sa=Search&cof=S%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fpww.org%3BAH%3Aleft%3BLH%3A66%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fpww.org%2Fezsitemanager%2Fstaticfiles%2Fsubscribe_button.jpg%3BLW%3A173%3BAWFID%3A5c9fbd6ff68bf4c4%3B&domains=pww.org&sitesear
[3] http://realneo.us/blog/jeff-buster/publish-discuss-or-perish-the-israel-lobby
[4] http://www.aipac.org/
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee
[6] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/Cimperman-lesic-for-realneo.jpg