http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-anti-semitic-mailer-20181030-story.html
A campaign mailer showing a Jewish candidate for state Senate with a fistful of money is drawing condemnation for what critics say is its blatant anti-Semitic imagery.
It was sent out by Republican Ed Charamut and targets Democratic state Rep. Matthew Lesser, his opponent in the race for the 9th Senate District seat, which represents Middletown,
Wethersfield, Newington, Cromwell and Rocky Hill. The mailer, which arrived in some mailboxes Monday, has stoked controversy just days after 11 people were killed and six others
were wounded in a synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in what investigators have categorized as a hate crime.
Lesser, 35, has served five terms as Middletown’s 100th House District representative. Charamut, 60, a member of the Rocky Hill Town Council, stood by the content of the flyer in an
email to The Courant Tuesday and accused Lesser of playing identity politics.
“Those wishing to portray a graphic illustration as something hateful are completely wrong,” Charamut wrote. “I reject hate speech in all its forms. The mailer draws a stark contrast
between myself and Matt Lesser. Do you want to protect your wallets, or do you want to make Matt Lesser your new state Senator?”
Jewish groups termed the mailer as offensive. “We do know … the feelings that the flyer is evoking — the juxtaposition of a Jewish candidate for office and money in this manner
suggests an age-old anti-Semitic trope,” said Steve Ginsburg, regional director of ADL Connecticut. “We can’t and don’t know the [motive] of the producer of the flyer, but we do know its
impact and they should clarify what they meant.”
State Republican Chairman J.R. Romano dismissed the criticism Tuesday and said it was coming from only Democrats. “When I look at that I don’t see Jewish,” Romano said. “That’s
all this is, pointing out the fact that Matt Lesser is a tax-and-spend Democrat. If you criticize any Democrat for failures and their record, they run into this shield that you’re a racist. The
Democrats have false outrage all the time.”
When told that Jewish community members raised objections to the mailer, Romano said, “Did you look to see their political affiliation?” Later Tuesday, amid criticism of his earlier
comments to The Courant and other media outlets, Romano issued a written statement saying the mailer was offensive.
I hate the candidates in this state so much sometimes.
we unleashed Joe Liberman too, there’s no coming back from that.
Right. Like the GOP have any chance of taking Connecticut. They may as well change their campaign posters to display a Nazi swastika, it won't affect their chances considerably.
That doesn't look like a Jewish democrat it just looks like Mark Zuckerberg
Connecticut has a historically unpopular Democrat governor, Daniel Malloy. He's the second least liked governor in the whole country at 21% approval and 71% disapproval, (don't know why) he's making the
chances of Republicans winning in Connecticut 2% instead of 1% now.
It’s a Connecticut hobby to hate our state. The state is in perpetual fiscal crisis and Malloy’s actions have seemed only to exacerbate the problems. While much of CT is Blue, there are very strong cores of Red voters, I live in the middle of one such area.
Malloy was better than Foley in the last election, and right now Lamont is looking to be better than Trump Lite (Stefanowksi). But after 2016 I wouldn’t take anything for granted,
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132446/7186cfa9-5980-4cbf-a298-ece2456e9d5b/image.png
i'm sorry, but that face is way too easy to laugh at
Hi America,
Just wanted to let you know that you are more than welcome to come back to Europe and rest for a while, it seems that sitting in the sun for too long has fried your brains, either that or take a vacation to Canada, white people don't handle hot weather responsibly.
Nah m8 that's Joel Osteen.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132319/a8f09f58-2241-4b99-ae6b-be295ce416c8/4b833ef8-93ab-41d2-b959-4ff4fa3e537d-Joel_Osteen_in_LA.jpg
Ok Mr. "9/11 was a Conspiracy and i know more about Gravity than actual scientists"
Yeah you might not want to mention gravity around NIST, it's a pretty touchy subject for them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGMvnwjUizY&t=67s
Good job genius, you just further proved my point.
You make insults about knowledge of gravity, I show you your trusted scientists can't even explain gravity at a high school level, or why it applies.
I'd tell you to keep your smarmy remarks to yourself but considering I just accused your country of largely having lost your minds that might be a bit rich.
So you think that 9/11 was a hoax? A false flag? What are you stating?
Weird how we're still on the first page and the topic has already been completely forgotten.
It's probably best that we leave that up to the investigation that will hopefully follow should the Grand Jury not entirely ignore this legal petition. Although with them currently dealing with a possible Trump issue that might get overlooked for some time.
You seem to like to pin these "theories" on the person raising them, although that really isn't the case. The entire side of people investigating the issue have been painted with the same brush as those that believe the planes were holograms or some bullshit like that.
The reality is there is plenty of actual physical evidence that points to explosives that has been washed over by a movement painting every doubter of the official narrative with the same crazy brush, it's strange to me that a forum so full of politically minded people haven't looked at all into the real academic efforts of professors, engineers and architects that are speaking about this issue.
It's honestly a little odd. As I said, the petition has been submitted, so if there's any justice left in the world, which judging by the lack of reporting on mainstream news outlets about this petition, I doubt there's much, the Grand Jury will at least look at this evidence and reevaluate NIST's story.
I used to be a "Truther".
No there isn't.
Sorry to hear you got bullied and shamed out of it man. I notice I'm possibly the only voice left on Facepunch when years ago I know there were more.
Maybe go back and see the evidence that was provided to the attorneys to hand over to the GJ. It's all very well presented, you appear to have forgotten some things if you ever knew about them at all, such as molten liquid steel being in the rubble after 12 weeks after the event being the most simple and brazenly looked over fact of the whole situation.
Didn't know using logic was considered to be "Bullying"
I thought it was being a person with common sense.
I knew you had some unpopular opinions every now and then, but I didn't know you were a 9/11 truther. That's honestly nuts.
I'm sorry hearing the word logic coming out of someones mouth that takes the 9/11 commission report on the word of strangers isn't something I care for. If you're at all interested, I'll quite happily provide you with a plethora of information indicating explosives and criminal errors in reporting by NIST then I'm honestly happy to spend the time, however you appear to be only interested in proliferating insults on the matter, which is about as common as it gets for these discussions from your side. As you've done with me in this very thread, in fact the only reason we're having this conversation is because you brought it up in a cunt like manner.
Except we're the ones who have brought up the countless amounts of evidence that debunk your bullshit. Meanwhile you spout out the type of shit those youtube conspiracy videos produce like cheap chinese t-shirts.
Ignoring the off topic shit, I can see this not actually being intentional, because a common theme from CT Democrats is raising taxes and then fucking wasting the money on useless shit like $10 million to find out how we should implement tolls to get more tax money. Right now our Democrat choices are stupid or shit but the Republican party is not an option so we're fucked.
I'm voting for Oz Griebel for governer as he's an independent that's fiscally conservative but also socially liberal and while I don't agree with all his ideas he's got enough planning visible that he looks like he'll do a good job, plus it's not really a wasted vote as he used to be Republican and is right in the middle of both parties. It's hard finding any info about the candidates running for representative for my district though so I'll stick with DeLauro.
I didn’t get bullied out of anything.
I found the information profered bu truthers to be lacking. They can’t answer half as many questions abs they think they can.
Do do you believe jet fuel can’t make steel structurally unsound?
I believe the only evidence brought against my argument was a redneck blacksmith with a glowing hot steel bar in the last thread. Bear in mind this stuff has already been presented to a committee of international lawyers and is on the way to the courts. You know that studies have been done in Alaska Fairbanks University that completely blow NIST's sim model out of the water?
You probably don't.
Just do me one favor death, please, watch this video of Dr Leroy Hulsey of the above mentioned university provide his current testimony to the lawyers and tell me this is founded in bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf1ewgbq4fY&lc=z22czpogkqihzhohh04t1aokggdvc0karcerdri22rbvbk0h00410.1538601014862148
If you don't want to pay attention tot he evidence I bring forward, none of which has been cookie cutter bullshit, then please stop discussing the issue with me.
So the critiques of these critiques are just "Wrong" then, eh?
Not one of these videos, or sources you're going to post hasn't been confronted by the "other side" and thoroughly fucking debunked lol
What critiques of critiques?
Which part has been thoroughly debunked? Can you show me? I'd like to see it and address it please.
@Deathtrooper I blame you for starting this
I dealt with people like you enough when I was a truther and spent hours debating this shit.
I don't have all the answers at this moment.
I do have a relative certainty that there was no controlled demolition in any of the three buildings.
I mean the very fact that you haven't even HEARD that there is critique of your bullshit is why I don't think you really research this as much as you think you do.
Debunked
You haven't even done a cursorary search of things that contradict this guy, so if you're not working to prove yourself wrong at all, all you're doing is creating a confirmation bias over, and over, and over again.
why are you people discussing 9/11 in a thread about a Connecticut GOP candidate? take this to dm's on discord or somethin iunno
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