Kesher Talk

Clark goes gefilte fishing for Jewish votes: Newly-minted Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark is going after the Jewish vote with gusto:

On September 18, the day after his announcement in Little Rock, Ark., Clark held a late-afternoon meeting with South Florida Democrats at the Deli Den, a "kosher-style" restaurant in Hollywood, Fla., a heavily Jewish city in Broward County.

"One of his first stops was not only Florida — the only swing mega-state — but where does he pick to go? Broward, my county," crowed Mitch Ceasar, the Broward Democratic chairman, who attended the meeting at the restaurant, his father's favorite hangout.

The move looked like smart politics — and not only because of Florida's electoral heft. In order to be a viable candidate, Clark will have to build up his campaign coffers with lightning speed, and Florida, with its many wealthy Jewish retirees who play the political field, is a good place to do that.

posted by William @ 10/01/2003 04:25:44 PM