Candidate answers atheist label with ‘I am Jewish’

[rug]

Thursday, August 16, 2012

A candidate in an Orlando-area primary is disputing claims in a flier mailed to voters that he is a nudist and an atheist.

Jeffrey Goldmacher, who is running in this week’s Republican primary for the Osceola County Commission, said he lives on a “clothing-optional resort” at the Cypress Cove Resort and Spa in Poinciana, not a “nudist colony.”

“Only lepers and ants live in colonies,” Goldmacher, 56, told the Orlando Sentinel.

The retiree disputed the claims that he is an atheist by saying he is Jewish and that he won’t promote nudism as a commissioner.

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/66129/candidate-answers-atheist-label-with-i-am-jewish/

[Jim__]

1. I'm betting that he loses the election. - n/t

[cbayer]

2. I think it's the *clothing optional* issue that is going to take him down and not

the religious/atheist issue.

[Jim__]

4. I think so too.

[rug]

5. Well, at least there'd be no doubt he was Jewish.