Jewish lobby funded GOP Sen. Kirk breaks rank to meet Obama's Jewish SCOTUS nominee Garland

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Great bi-partisan spirit to get things done, money factor probably just a co-incidence:

Mark Kirk Is AIPAC’s Million Dollar Baby
May 25, 2011


MJ Rosenberg (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg) Worked on Capitol Hill for Democratic Senators and House members for 20 years


Mark Kirk, the House member from Chicago who is now the GOP Senate nominee, is the #1 recipient of pro-Israel PAC money in the entire House. (http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=Q05&recipdetail=M&sortorder=U&cycle=All) In fact, of the top 10 recipients from both Houses, he is the only House member.
Why do the PACs love him?
It is because Kirk is a pure Israel-firster.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/mark-kirk-is-aipacs-milli_b_448192.html


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In this June 9, 2014 file photo, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk R-Ill., speaks during an interview at his office in Chicago.
Photo by M. Spencer Green/AP

Mark Kirk will be the first Republican senator to meet with nominee Merrick Garland
03/25/16 06:12 PM

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk broke against his party and is set to become the first Republican senator to meet with Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, on Tuesday, his office confirmed with MSNBC on Friday.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mark-kirk-will-be-the-first-republican-senator-meet-nominee-merrick-garland

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Published on November 21st, 2013 | by Jim Lobe

The Mystery of Mark Kirk’s Motivations (https://lobelog.com/the-mystery-of-mark-kirks-motivations/)

Eli and Ali have rendered a great service — and a must-read (http://www.salon.com/2013/11/21/exclusive_gop_senator_unloads_in_private_call/) — by disclosing the contents of a private briefing by Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk (http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/kirk_mark) on the Iran nuclear negotiations he gave to invited supporters Monday. If any additional evidence (https://lobelog.com/how-not-to-show-decent-respect-to-the-opinions-of-mankind/) were needed to show that Kirk, who is leading the Republican charge in the Senate to impose new economic sanctions against Iran and thereby scuttle the ongoing Geneva process, serves as Bibi Netanyahu’s biggest advocate in Congress, this article would seem to provide a lot. Just as people used to call my former senator, Henry “Scoop” Jackson “the senator from Boeing,” so it seems that Kirk has made himself the senator from AIPAC.

Kirk, whose voting record on domestic and civil-rights issues suggests that he’s one of the last of a dying breed of “moderate” Republicans, has long carried water for the right-wing leadership of the Israel lobby, spearheading anti-Iran, anti-Palestinian and pro-Israel resolutions and legislation throughout his nearly 15-year career in Congress. His identification with the policies and apocalyptic worldview (https://lobelog.com/the-messianic-apocalyptic-bibi-netanyahu/) of Netanyahu and hard-line U.S. neoconservatives..