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Title: Linda Chavez and Family: It Sure Pays To Be Rightwing Hacks!
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URL Source: http://www.tpmcafe.com:80/blog/coff ... re_pays_to_be_a_rightwing_hack
Published: Aug 14, 2007
Author: M.J. Rosenberg
Post Date: 2007-08-14 11:10:22 by Brian S
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This page one article from the Washington Post is worth a read. It turns out that one Linda Chavez -- the rightwinger whose bread-and-butter is using her Hispanic last name to bash liberal Latino organization, liberals, and labor unions -- has been raising tons of political money for her own (and her family's) personal use. I knew Chavez in the 1980's. Her husband Chris Gersten was the AIPAC political director and a key player in moving the organization to the right. Gersten's game was using his labor union background to gain him cred for union bashing while Linda's was to use her union background and her surname for similar purposes. Both were pretty standard Jewish neocons, at the far right of the Jewish community. Gersten's tenure at AIPAC was short. When he was discovered shilling too blatantly for Republicans, he disappeared. I always thought that rightwing politics was the Gersten family's racket. Now, according to the Post, it was -- quite literally. What an easy way to make money! Send out fundraising appeals for various causes and do, God knows what, with the money! Oh those neocons. But better this than dragging America off to war.
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