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The annual California dinner of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the Reagan Library, held in the Air Force One Pavilion, drew more than 600 people. Thanks to Power Line, American Thinker, Buckeye State Blog, Naugblog, the RJC, and Writes Like She Talks for linking to the JCI video of the beginning of Ohio State Rep. Josh Mandel’s speech to the dinner. The one-minute video above is from the end of the speech, and will give you a sense of the crowd reaction to it, and why he should be speaking at the Republican Convention in September.
The video isn't showing up for me?
Posted by: Clay | July 07, 2008 at 08:51 AM
You may have difficulty if you are using Firefox rather than Internet Explorer. Otherwise, keep clicking on the arrows and they should work.
Posted by: RR | July 07, 2008 at 09:06 AM
One of his constituents thinks he pulled one over on you:
http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2008/07/03/josh-mandel-faces-tough-odds-needs-400000-to-win-17th-who-knew/
Posted by: J. Lichty | July 07, 2008 at 11:38 AM
J. Lichty:
The site you note was cross-posted at Buckeye State Blog, which is one of the ones I've linked above. A response to it was made at Naugblog (another Ohio political blog), which is also linked above.
In any event, viewers of the two videos I've posted can make their own determination about him.
Posted by: RR | July 07, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Here is Josh's interview today with the Buckeye Institute, a free market think tank in Ohio. Check it out!
http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2008/07/07/buckeyevoices-rep-josh-mandel-is-a-strong-conservative-voice-in-columbus/
Posted by: Matt N. | July 07, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Rick - followed the link to Naublog - nothing but an ad hominem attack on the woman who wrote the post I linked to. While the folks at Naublog may be correct in their attacks - it does not address the substance of her criticim.
Look I have heard many a comfortable incumbent plead poverty and "tough expensive race", but this should be addressed in a substantive manner, not just by calling her a yenta and a stalker (which she very well may be).
Posted by: J. Lichty | July 08, 2008 at 11:03 AM
J. Lichty -- agreed.
I am informed by Joel Mowbray that Mandel's district is "more than two-to-one Dems to Republicans in his state house district. 39K Dems to 18K Republicans. There are 47K independents, but in the standard calculations, his district is over two-to-one Dem-to-GOP."
On other points, I leave it to Naublog to address, and second your encouragement for them to address them substantively.
Posted by: RR | July 08, 2008 at 04:18 PM