http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/08/07/footlik-response/ Illinois, From Misery Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:57:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/08/07/footlik-response/#comment-4372 jean Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:47:29 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/08/07/footlik-response/#comment-4372 What does Jay Footlik (IL10) bring to the party - other than Monica Lewinsky? Why is Jay Footlik running for Congress in the Tenth District of Illinois? This Washington insider hasn't lived in the state since high school, and he grew up in Skokie, which isn't even in the district. And what has he ever accomplished besides introducing Monica Lewinsky to Bill Clinton? According to Lewinsky, it was Jay Footlik who helped her get her internship. http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/16apr20041404/icreport.access.gpo.gov/hd105-311/vol4/tab21.pdf According to his testimony to Ken Starr, he personally escorted her to a party at the West Wing where he facilitated an encounter with Bill Clinton. http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/11may20041152/icreport.access.gpo.gov/hd105-316/1167-1170.pdf and http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5087/is_199810/ai_n18478684 He's a registered lobbyist from Washington, a job most people liken to pond scum. In fact, his firm was fired by the University of California at San Diego for charging $100 an hour for lunching with federal officials and congressional staffers, not notifying the university that they were registered lobbyists and failing to file articles of incorporation with the state of Virginia. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/03/21/this_just_in/746dinovo.txt What does Jay Footlik (IL10) bring to the party - other than Monica Lewinsky?
Why is Jay Footlik running for Congress in the Tenth District of Illinois? This Washington insider hasn’t lived in the state since high school, and he grew up in Skokie, which isn’t even in the district. And what has he ever accomplished besides introducing Monica Lewinsky to Bill Clinton? According to Lewinsky, it was Jay Footlik who helped her get her internship. http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/16apr20041404/icreport.access.gpo.gov/hd105-311/vol4/tab21.pdf
According to his testimony to Ken Starr, he personally escorted her to a party at the West Wing where he facilitated an encounter with Bill Clinton. http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/11may20041152/icreport.access.gpo.gov/hd105-316/1167-1170.pdf and http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5087/is_199810/ai_n18478684
He’s a registered lobbyist from Washington, a job most people liken to pond scum. In fact, his firm was fired by the University of California at San Diego for charging $100 an hour for lunching with federal officials and congressional staffers, not notifying the university that they were registered lobbyists and failing to file articles of incorporation with the state of Virginia. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/03/21/this_just_in/746dinovo.txt

]]> http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/08/07/footlik-response/#comment-4371 Ellen Beth Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:40:56 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/08/07/footlik-response/#comment-4371 I don't see this as a campaign or political issue. As an American Jew, I take this very personally as an assault on my right to participate in the American dialogue and the world community. I don’t see this as a campaign or political issue. As an American Jew, I take this very personally as an assault on my right to participate in the American dialogue and the world community.

]]> http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/08/07/footlik-response/#comment-4370 Kirk supporter earns blowback « Illinois Reason Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:35:21 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/08/07/footlik-response/#comment-4370 [...] ArchPundit also notes that Dan Seals has a sensible and forceful policy paper on Israel (PDF). In essence, this is a Seals “pre-sponse” to such goofy innuendo hit pieces as the Lappin email. Jay Footlik’s campaign also had a direct response to the Lappin hatchet job (which, as James Boyce notes in his own Daily Kos diary, borders on slander). ArchPundit lists the Footlik reply, which reads in part: Unlike Mark Kirk, I have lived in Israel, and for much of my time there, Israel was experiencing the most violent period in recent memory. Homicide bombers were blowing up cafes and buses nearly every week. I worked alongside Israel’s leaders devising strategies to improve safety and security - and help strengthen the US-Israel relationship. My wife, an Israeli, wore the IDF uniform, serving in the Israeli Air Force. My family and I were in Haifa when the first missiles hit during last year’s Israel-Hezbollah war. I know what security and peace would mean to Israelis - and I will work my hardest to achieve it. [...] [...] ArchPundit also notes that Dan Seals has a sensible and forceful policy paper on Israel (PDF). In essence, this is a Seals “pre-sponse” to such goofy innuendo hit pieces as the Lappin email. Jay Footlik’s campaign also had a direct response to the Lappin hatchet job (which, as James Boyce notes in his own Daily Kos diary, borders on slander). ArchPundit lists the Footlik reply, which reads in part: Unlike Mark Kirk, I have lived in Israel, and for much of my time there, Israel was experiencing the most violent period in recent memory. Homicide bombers were blowing up cafes and buses nearly every week. I worked alongside Israel’s leaders devising strategies to improve safety and security - and help strengthen the US-Israel relationship. My wife, an Israeli, wore the IDF uniform, serving in the Israeli Air Force. My family and I were in Haifa when the first missiles hit during last year’s Israel-Hezbollah war. I know what security and peace would mean to Israelis - and I will work my hardest to achieve it. [...]

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