This week's political news out of Florida consisted of a reported push poll attack on Florida. The "pollsters" would not name themselves to their callers after claiming that Hamas hearts Obama and other such fear-based attacks. Perhaps the group responsible for it figured this would fly under the radar, but in this day and age it isn't too hard to pinpoint the perps. So who are the manipulators of this scheme you ask?
From Rochester Turning:
We’ve written before about local Republican operative David Flaum. It looks like our boy has finally hit the big time. The Republican Jewish Coalition, of which Flaum is chairman, just got nabbed making nasty push poll calls:
The Republican Jewish Coalition, which is launching a campaign against Obama on behalf of Senator John McCain, sponsored the poll to “understand why Barack Obama continues to have a problem among Jewish voters,” the group’s executive director, Matt Brooks, told Politico. [...]
Flaum is trying hard to emulate Roger Stone and Karl Rove. While it may score him brownie points with the local GOP, I find this hard to stomach if I were on the Board of Trustees with this political hack. Having different political views is good for discourse inside an University but deception and manipulation of voters is not the most admirable of qualities to impress upon the students there.It’s probably too soon to call Flaum the Roger Stone of Rochester, but clearly he’s going places.
It’s a little troubling that he’s on the Board of Trustees at Syracuse University and the University of Rochester. So much for the myth of liberal universities.
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