Washington – Congressman-elect Lee Zeldin, who won Long Island’s First District Nov. 4, arrived in Washington last week and insists he’ll be different from Jewish Democrats.
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The only Jewish Republican member of Congress, Zeldin, 34, dismissed the Obama administration’s stance that there’s no distance between the U.S. and Israel, pointing out criticism of Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and the Unites States’ nuclear negotiations with Iran, reports The New York Post (http://bit.ly/1xPa7Jh).
Zeldin, an Iraq war vet and state senator, says he’ll come down stronger on Obama regarding Israel than the Jewish Democrats, who he says are limited in their criticism of their own party’s leader. The Republican Jewish Coalition, which made electing Zeldin its “top, top priority,” wants tougher sanctions over Iran and worries about the Obama administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran.
The House and Senate now have 31 Jewish members, 30 Democrats and one independent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who conferences with the Democrats. New York alone has five Jewish members – Reps. Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey, Steve Israel, Jerrold Nadler and Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Zeldin overthrew six-term Rep. Tim Bishop (D-Southampton) in the Nov. 4 vote.
Information taken from The New York Post
Congressman-elect Lee Zeldin good luck on his new job.
Remember a very important thing: this is the great USA and yes we all have equal rights and we are all allowed in this free country to criticize the president. But as a Jew Congressman-elect Lee Zeldin shouldn’t have the chutzpah to criticize Obama especial on the topic of Israel.
Lee Zeldin was elected to represent his district not to represent Israel.
I like his openness but first things first, before he says anything, he should take control of himself and his home. He must be covering his head and he must never allow his wife out of the house dressed like that. (In the house too, but you need to learn to walk before you learn to run.)