Sen. John McCain has named Long Island real-estate developer Mark Broxmeyer to chair his campaign's Jewish Advisory Committee.
Broxmeyer, the co-founder and partner of the rental-housing company Fairfield Properties, has been a prolific McCain fundraiser and currently serves on the candidate's National Finance Committee. In June, for example, Broxmeyer hosted a fundraiser at his home in Upper Brookville home that brought more than $340,000 to McCain.
"John McCain is the only candidate with the foreign policy experience to lead as commander in chief from the first day he takes office. He has long been a friend of the Jewish community and a defender of the State of Israel," Broxmeyer said in a statement.
Broxmeyer serves as National Chair of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, as well as Advisory Board Chair of Secure Community Network, a non-profit organization that addresses security concerns in the American Jewish community. He was appointed by President Bush to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, and former Gov. George Pataki named him to serve on the board of the United Nations Development Corporation.
Katie Thomas
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Like McCain's campaign doesn't have enuff problems!
This is the ultra right wing wacko who heads up the bs jewish paramilitary organization. He's so crazy that News 12 had to pull him off the air during an interview he did right after 911 because be basically went muts and started calling for the wholesale bombing of the entire Middle East. His groups a joke. The only reason why they get these former big name military guys to speak at their rubberchicken dinners is because Broxmeyer's group gives them awards, pays them per diems and donates to all the conservatives who prop up the pentagon.
With friends like this, McCain might get a few more dollars but we won't win over any new supporters.
John McCain has on his staff Fred Malek, who carried out President Nixon's order in 1971 to count the Jews in high-ranking posts in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Malek compiled a list of 13 of 35 top BLS employees who, he believed, were Jewish. Less than two months later, two senior BLS officials who were Jewish were moved out of their jobs to less visible posts. Malek acknowledges carrying out the disgusting hunt for Jews, but he denies having anything to do with the transfers. On top of that John McCain in October 2007 made comments that America is a Christian nation, and implied that only someone with Christian beliefs was fit to be President. So why anyone who is Jewish, or non-Christian, including Sen. Joseph Lieberman, would support someone like this is surprising.