Republican Campaign Mailer Fuels Anti-Semitism Complaints In State Senate Race
BY Neil Vigdor and Shawn R. BealsContact Reporters
A campaign mailer showing a Jewish candidate for state Senate with a fistful of money is drawing condemnation for what critics say is its blatant anti-Semitic imagery.
It was sent out by Republican Ed Charamut and targets state Rep. Matthew Lesser, a Democrat who gave up his seat in the House to vie for an open Senate seat representing Middletown, Wethersfield, Newington, Cromwell and Rocky Hill.
The inflammatory mailer has stoked controversy just days after 11 people were killed and six others were wounded in a synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in what investigators have categorized as a hate crime.
It coincides with a spike in the number of reported anti-Semitic incidents across the nation, which the Anti-Defamation League says rose by 53 percent last year
http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-anti-semitic-mailer-20181030-story.html
Just unfucking believable....................what a asshole.......................
