enhanced_deficit
02-28-2015, 06:22 PM
Many questions surrounding the apparent suicide death of MO governor seat candidate Tom Schweich yesterday. But one premise underlying this affair is mind boggling. Impression one gets from reading news of recent decades is that Evangelical Christians , the so called base of GOP, are major supporters of Jewish people and their homeland Israel. Same "base" is credited with being a key demographic behind Iraq war that Bush invoked with "crusade" wording. But then how does one explain news like below where having even a distant jewish ancestor is a serious liability when voters are Evangelical Christians? Anyone can explain this?
WaPo: "This week, Schweich seemed to be getting anxious about some comments he alleged Hancock made about his faith. He told the AP that he had heard rumors that Hancock made some comments last year that Schweich was Jewish and he thought Hancock should step down from his position as party chairman, to which he was just elected. Messenger, from the Post-Dispatch, said in his statement that Schweich told him he thought Hancock meant to “harm him politically in a gubernatorial primary in which many Republican voters are evangelical Christians.”
Missouri GOP chairman denies spreading rumors about Tom Schweich’s religion
02/27/2015 11:48 AM
JEFFERSON CITY A day after Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich died from an apparent suicide (http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11231360.html), the chairman of the Missouri Republican Party tried to dispel rumors that he had engaged in a whisper campaign aimed at Schweich’s religion.
In an email to the GOP state central committee sent Friday morning, John Hancock said that he mistakenly believed that Schweich was Jewish, “but it was simply a part of what I believed to be his biography—no different than the fact that he was from St. Louis and had graduated from Harvard Law School.”
“While I do not recall doing so, it is possible that I mentioned Tom’s faith in passing during one of the many conversations I have each day,” Hancock wrote. “There was absolutely nothing malicious about my intent, and I certainty was not attempting to ‘inject religion’ into the governor’s race, as some have suggested.”
One of Schweich’s final acts before his death was attempts to set up an interview with reporters from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Associated Press to discuss his belief that Hancock spreading rumors that Schweich is Jewish. Schweich told a Post-Dispatch editor that he was Episcopalian with a Jewish grandfather and suspected references were made to his Jewish heritage to damage his standing with Republicans in the primary for governor.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article11343266.html
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Just over a month ago, Tom Schweich, a Republican candidate for governor of Missouri, shot himself in his home outside St. Louis. This weekend, his spokesman and media director Spence Jackson did the same at his apartment in Jefferson City. In a press conference this afternoon, police said that though Jackson's body was discovered yesterday (http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/spence-jackson-spokesman-for-the-late-tom-schweich-found-dead/article_81520750-f9cd-560c-8ecd-78163eeed778.html) after a family member was not able to get in touch with him, they believe he shot himself at some point early in the weekend. They also stated that a note was found in Jackson's apartment, but that they won't be releasing its contents.
Schweich committed suicide on February 26 in the midst of a frenzied morning in which he appeared to be setting up interviews with reporters in order to reveal what he believed to be a religion-based whisper campaign being waged against him by John Hancock (http://blackbag.gawker.com/did-a-religious-conspiracy-drive-a-missouri-politician-1691293885#_ga=1.64731375.1999216365.1396901437), the chairman of the state's Republican party.
http://gawker.com/spokesman-for-poli...com-1694545163 (http://gawker.com/spokesman-for-politician-who-committed-suicide-also-com-1694545163)
WaPo: "This week, Schweich seemed to be getting anxious about some comments he alleged Hancock made about his faith. He told the AP that he had heard rumors that Hancock made some comments last year that Schweich was Jewish and he thought Hancock should step down from his position as party chairman, to which he was just elected. Messenger, from the Post-Dispatch, said in his statement that Schweich told him he thought Hancock meant to “harm him politically in a gubernatorial primary in which many Republican voters are evangelical Christians.”
Missouri GOP chairman denies spreading rumors about Tom Schweich’s religion
02/27/2015 11:48 AM
JEFFERSON CITY A day after Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich died from an apparent suicide (http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11231360.html), the chairman of the Missouri Republican Party tried to dispel rumors that he had engaged in a whisper campaign aimed at Schweich’s religion.
In an email to the GOP state central committee sent Friday morning, John Hancock said that he mistakenly believed that Schweich was Jewish, “but it was simply a part of what I believed to be his biography—no different than the fact that he was from St. Louis and had graduated from Harvard Law School.”
“While I do not recall doing so, it is possible that I mentioned Tom’s faith in passing during one of the many conversations I have each day,” Hancock wrote. “There was absolutely nothing malicious about my intent, and I certainty was not attempting to ‘inject religion’ into the governor’s race, as some have suggested.”
One of Schweich’s final acts before his death was attempts to set up an interview with reporters from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Associated Press to discuss his belief that Hancock spreading rumors that Schweich is Jewish. Schweich told a Post-Dispatch editor that he was Episcopalian with a Jewish grandfather and suspected references were made to his Jewish heritage to damage his standing with Republicans in the primary for governor.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article11343266.html
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Spokesman For Politician Who Committed Suicide Also Commits Suicide (http://gawker.com/spokesman-for-politician-who-committed-suicide-also-com-1694545163)
(http://gawker.com/spokesman-for-politician-who-committed-suicide-also-com-1694545163)3/30/15
Just over a month ago, Tom Schweich, a Republican candidate for governor of Missouri, shot himself in his home outside St. Louis. This weekend, his spokesman and media director Spence Jackson did the same at his apartment in Jefferson City. In a press conference this afternoon, police said that though Jackson's body was discovered yesterday (http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/spence-jackson-spokesman-for-the-late-tom-schweich-found-dead/article_81520750-f9cd-560c-8ecd-78163eeed778.html) after a family member was not able to get in touch with him, they believe he shot himself at some point early in the weekend. They also stated that a note was found in Jackson's apartment, but that they won't be releasing its contents.
Schweich committed suicide on February 26 in the midst of a frenzied morning in which he appeared to be setting up interviews with reporters in order to reveal what he believed to be a religion-based whisper campaign being waged against him by John Hancock (http://blackbag.gawker.com/did-a-religious-conspiracy-drive-a-missouri-politician-1691293885#_ga=1.64731375.1999216365.1396901437), the chairman of the state's Republican party.
http://gawker.com/spokesman-for-poli...com-1694545163 (http://gawker.com/spokesman-for-politician-who-committed-suicide-also-com-1694545163)