As usual, the journalists cannot help but writes stories about "Jewish money":
Money From Supporters of Israel Played Role in Alabama Upset
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 26 (AP) — Artur Davis used a flood of donations from supporters of Israel, many of them from New York, in his Democratic runoff victory over Representative Earl F. Hilliard in a mostly poor Alabama Congressional district.
Mr. Davis, 34, a lawyer, is expected to win this fall because no Republican is nominated in the heavily Democratic district.
Nearly $189,000 of the $306,482 in individual donations that Mr. Davis received came from New York. Almost $134,000 of that came from around New York City, according to FECInfo, a Web site that tracks political money.
The money helped Mr. Davis pay for television commercials that questioned Mr. Hilliard's ethics and suggested that he tacitly supported terrorism because he visited Libya five years ago.
The Davis campaign acknowledged holding fund-raisers in New York that sought money from pro-Israeli groups and Jews. Mr. Davis was also among the candidates who appeared at a Washington conference sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
And the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz is even worse:
To understand the political background to Bush's speech, it's worth taking a look at the Web site of the U.S. Federal Election Commission. Look for contributors to Artur Davis, a black lawyer who won the Democratic primaries in the 7th Congressional District in Alabama on the day of the speech. Davis beat his rival, the 60-year-old, five-term Earl Hilliard, who is also black, by a 56-44 percent vote.
Here are some of the names from the first pages of the list of his contributors: there were 10 Cohens from New York and New Jersey, but before one gets to the Cohens, there were Abrams, Ackerman, Adler, Amir, Asher, Baruch, Basok, Berger, Berman, Bergman, Bernstein and Blumenthal. All from the east coast, Chicago and Los Angeles. It's highly unlikely any of them have ever visited Alabama, let alone the 7th Congressional District...
What do the Adlers and Bergmans have to do with an unknown lawyer running for a Congressional seat from Alabama. Why should Jews from all over the United States send hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign coffers, which reached $781,000 - compared to the $85,000 he had in his coffers the last time he ran, and lost? The answer can be found in the AIPAC index of pro-Israel congressmen. Hilliard, who once visited Libya, is paying for his Congressional seat for a number of votes the Jewish lobbyists didn't like... The message was clear - this is what happens to politicians who upset Israel's friends...
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