Marco Rubio will hold Yom Kippur fundraiser at GOP megadonor’s home decorated with art by Hitler

[kpete]

September 22, 2015
Aaron Morrison
Posted with permission from International Business Times
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Democrats denounced Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio Tuesday over his campaign’s plans to hold a fundraiser at the spacious estate of a Texas real estate tycoon who collects Nazi artifacts. The fundraiser happened to be scheduled during Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and the holiest day on the faith’s calendar.

Rubio, the junior, first-term U.S. senator from Florida, was holding the event in conservative philanthropist Harlan Crow’s home library, which features two paintings by Adolf Hitler, a signed copy of the dictator's "Mein Kampf," and a cabinet full of dinnerware and linens used by the Fuhrer, according to the Dallas Morning News. Tickets for the fundraising event ranged from $1,000 per person to $10,800.

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz condemned the fundraiser as a “gross act of disrespect,” especially in light of Florida’s sizable Jewish population. The state had 638,985 Jewish residents in 2014, according to figures from the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.

“An event at a home with items like these is appalling at any time of the year,” read a statement released Tuesday by Wasserman Schultz, a Jewish congresswoman who is also from Florida. “Holding an event in a house featuring the artwork and signed autobiography of a man who dedicated his life to extinguishing the Jewish people is the height of insensitivity and indifference.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/marco-rubio-will-hold-yom-kippur-fundraiser-at-gop-megadonors-home-decorated-with-art-by-hitler/

[liberal N proud]

1. It is appropriate that a republican is having an event with such items

It is wildly inappropriate that its a Jewish event.

[oberliner]

8. What are you talking about?

It's not a Jewish event.

[liberal N proud]

10. Yom Kippur?

Past that I plead ignorance.

[oberliner]

11. "happened to be scheduled during Yom Kippur"

It was not a Jewish event, it was an event that happened to be scheduled on the same day as a major Jewish holiday.

[liberal N proud]

12. My bad!

[tavernier]

13. That is how I first read it as well.

The wording could have been a bit clearer, IMO.

Still and all... Marco... BAD FORM.
Dumbass.

[Hortensis]

28. Marco Rubio's BAD. And I'm glad. The Kochs, and Crow, are very interested

in him, and the sooner people take a good look at him and he's outed for the extremist he is the better. I'm not saying he is a Hitler sympathizer, or even that Crow is, but appearing there on that day is his mistake. So, good. Anyway, this does suggest that at very least his appropriateness compass is broken.

[Sunlei]

2. ghoulish home,who is that other republican that collects relics? one of their radio oldsters?

I think it was one of the republicans radio mouths who also has a collection. Did they eat off the dinnerware & llaugh about their wealth-building history?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Goodbye to dollars from Sheldon Adelson.

[oberliner]

9. Definitely not true

Adelson will almost certainly donate money to Rubio.

[hedda_foil]

21. Adelson's primary interest is Israel. He would definitely withdraw any funding from Rubio.

Not only that, but his family came from Ukraine, where some of the worst atrocities occurred. He was between 7 and 11 years old between 1941 and 1945. Jewish Americans knew quite a bit about the Holocaust while it was going on. Little Shelley Adelson's relatives were almost certainly among the massacred Ukrainian Jews. No way would he donate to anyone if they accepted what amounts to Nazi money.

[oberliner]

24. You have no idea what you are talking about

Rubio is Adelson's favored candidate and this will have no impact on that.

[Hortensis]

29. Does anyone know IF Harlan Crow is a Nazi sympathizer? Collecting

historic artifacts does not mean that is so. He apparently collects a lot of stuff, including statues of right and left-wing dictators, notes from Lincoln.

Whatever, he's busy trying to buy elections, so he is currently involved in subverting our democratic republic.

[oberliner]

30. Crow and Adelson teamed up in supporting Newt last time around

Then they both went big on Romney, of course, once he got the nomination.

[Hortensis]

31. Probably safe to say Adelson doesn't have a problem with him. Thanks.

Hope they lose big again.

[oberliner]

32. So far Adelson has been picking nothing but losers

Let's hope that trend continues!

[Hortensis]

33. May just! I'm guessing he peaked long ago in personal development.

[MisterP]

14. perhaps not--it's like the fundies all like the eminently unchristian Trump and backed Santorum,

who said Protestants were all heretics

[hatrack]

4. What. The. Fuck.

Wow, this is just . . . . wow.

[Mike Nelson]

5. I would burn the...

...autographed copy of Hitler's book.

[IDemo]

6. That shouldn't really be an issue for a large part of the base n/t

[Gothmog]

7. Harlan Crow is a nasty person who bribed clarence thomas a while back

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19thomas.html?_r=0

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Once again, demonstrating...

...Republicans do not respect, revere, nor "love" Jews, as many claim. They only "respect, revere, and love" Jewish money and the idea of Israel.

[Hortensis]

34. Now, HOW can you say that? Would they eagerly await the deaths of

hundreds of millions of Jews gloriously fighting Satan's forces for God -- and plan to then move in and take over the Holy Lands for Christianity -- if they did not love and revere them?

I even hear that Jews who've converted before death (therefore are no longer Jewish?) are eligible to be saved. Can't be more respectful than that.

[KamaAina]

16. You lost me at "Yom Kippur fundraiser".

Sandy Koufax famously refused to pitch a World Series game on Yom Kippur. But someone's supposed to go to a fundraiser for this meatball?

True story: At my previous job, we had a board chair who was a Messianic Jew (basically, a fundie who has adopted the trappings of Judaism). He kept messing around in the office, because the actual director had decamped for the mainland, never to return (looooooong story). So I figured the one day I would be safe from his meddling would be Yom Kippur, right? Wrong. There he was, big as life. Me: "Um, isn't it Yom Kippur?" Him: "Yeah, but I had to get some stuff done blah blah blah..."

[oberliner]

17. "The fundraiser happened to be scheduled during Yom Kippur"

Happened to be scheduled on the date.

[KamaAina]

18. Not great planning on Rubio's part

Many big-time political donors are Jewish. A few, like Adelson, are even repukes.

[oberliner]

19. Adelson lives in Las Vegas

This fundraiser is in Texas.

[KamaAina]

25. He's only one example of a Jewish repuke donor

and I'm sure he has a G5 or equivalent.

[oberliner]

26. I doubt he gives a crap about a fundraiser in Texas being held on this date

He's not religious at all.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. The title is a hot mess.

It isn't a "Yom Kippur fundraiser" but rather, a fundraiser being held on Yom Kippur.

I am going to add my own, 'fact is stranger than fiction" story:

I was working for a university, which decided to hold homecoming on Rosh HaShana. This upset the small Jewish community, especially the Jewish boosters. So, the university, in it's infinite wisdom, decided to "make it up" to the Jewish community, as they weren't going to move homecoming. While in a staff meeting, we were told of the predicament and then told of the solution: The following Saturday, they would hold a pig pickin' on the grounds. Well, I burst out into laughter because, well, I thought it was a joke. The puzzled looks on the face of my boss indicated, nope, this wasn't a "funny" but an example of profound ignorance. First, I had to explain, while many Jews are lapse on Kosher, most will not actually eat pork, especially in a setting where a big ole pig is being roasted in the ground. Second, the following Saturday was Yom Kippur (which I had to explain) and Jews typically fast..so, again a "banquet" ain't gonna cut it! She hightailed it out of the meeting to make several quick calls, as this "make up" session was about to go to print. But, that is what happens when you have a staff of over 500 people and one Jew!

[Dorian Gray]

22. HAH

It's not funny bc it really happened, but it is funny bc it happened. Holy ignorance.

Glad you stopped them from publicizing the Yom Kippur Pig Roast.

[Behind the Aegis]

23. That's when I still liked working there...another year...

...I would have let it run!

[Hortensis]

35. You cheated a lot of people of a good laugh, Aegis. Bet we

would have heard of it all the way out in L.A.

[Ruby the Liberal]

37. My grandmother is rolling in her grave laughing

Dig a hole in the ground and roast a whole pig for Yom Kippur"? That is one of the funniest stories I think I have ever read.

As a northern transplant of southern upbringing, I have to ask - where in the deep south was this University?

[HassleCat]

27. Hitler's not so bad

Trying to exterminate an entire race of people. Bombing English civilians. Invading other countries on pretext. Hell, we got two out of three right here in the US of A. (Our Holocaust against our native people was long ago, so it doesn't count.)

[Oilwellian]

36. Oh look, Harlan Crow also has Stalin an Mao in the garden

It seems the right is blasting DWS and claiming the mere collection of Nazi artifacts, does not make one a Nazi. Fair enough. I'm sure there are people who collect Nazi memorabilia, and don't admire the mass genocide they committed. But when a Nazi memorabilia collector also has Mao and Stalin in his garden, I become a little more skeptical.


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