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The world is learning a lot about Georgia and how it feels about Jews.
On the one hand, a Jewish Democrat named Jon Ossoff – along with a progressive Black minister – were elected as the state’s senators, tipping the national legislative balance to the Democrats.
One the other, newly-elected Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican representing a district in the state’s northwest, was stripped of her committee assignments for promoting kooky QAnon conspiracy theories, including a belief in Jewish-run space lasers.
Is Georgia a forward-thinking haven, or the deep racist and antisemitic south? The answer is both, and confronting that reality is a priority in these polarizing times.
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Feb. 3, 2021
Despite all they disliked about him, the overwhelming majority of Jewish conservatives were ready to live with the fact that the Republicans had become Donald Trump’s party. Or at least they were, until the Capitol riot discredited him in the eyes of most Americans - even if the GOP base wants no part of either the effort to impeach him or to repudiate his presidency.
But living with the GOP becoming Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s party is quite another thing.
Yet as Republicans ponder how to deal with the furor that has arisen over the Georgia congresswoman’s record of support for the QAnon cult and bizarre conspiracy-mongering, the approximately 30 percent of American Jewish voters who cast their ballots for Trump last November have found themselves in an impossible position.
WA GOP chairman explains where the party goes post-Trump January 22, 2021 at 6:22 am
Supporters take a selfie with a Trump branded bus outside a rally for Georgia Republican Senate candidates David Perdue (R-GA) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) on December 20, 2020 in Cumming, Georgia. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
With a new administration in the White House, what does the Washington state GOP need to do in order to remain competitive and gain some more momentum to make shifts in policy? Washington State Republican Party Chairman Caleb Heimlich joined the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH to share his thoughts for how the party moves forward in the next few years and the necessary next steps.
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Fox Rothschild Atty Exits Firm After Joining Trump Ga. Call
Law360 (January 7, 2021, 11:41 PM EST) A Fox Rothschild LLP partner agreed to leave the firm Thursday after it was reported that he was present on the now-infamous call President Donald Trump made urging Georgia s secretary of state to find 11,780 votes in favor of his reelection, according to a statement from the firm.
President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally Monday in support of Georgia s Republican Senate candidates. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Alex B. Kaufman, a litigator in Fox Rothschild s Atlanta office since December 2019, reached a mutual agreement to depart the firm after it came out Thursday that he was present on the Jan. 2.