Jewish group falls from favor at White House

How can this group possibly fall from favor at the White House? The whole premise is rediculous. As this President has said many many many times - special interests are not welcome! And after all the anti-free speech rhetoric regarding campaign finance being struct down by the Supreme Court, this White House would never, never I say, get in bed with special interests financed by foreign entities! Never I say. Just go back and see what the Democrats, and espcially President Obama have said about special interests and special interest money. Surely there is no difference between support from foreign corporations and foreign individuals. Or is it just a matter of which party benefits in any particular case? Nah. No way. That would open up the President and Democrats to hypocrisy charges.

EVERY ACTION SHOULD HAVA AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION. SO THE AIPAC GETS OUT FRONT AND IS COUNTERMOVED BY J STREET. THE TRUTH IS THEN GENERATED.

Mr. Lake,

Congratulations on your superb Journalism regarding J Street.

I have successfully engaged Ben Ami in an email conversation which ended with his reminding me that J Street has filed returns for its 3 different entities, the 501 (3) c, the 501 (4) c and the PAC and done so over 3 years. You found one of these ( the 501 (4) c.) It reports that nearly 2/3rds of the money came from Soros, his family and “Connie” in the year 2008.

In his letters to his constituency, Ben Ami proclaims that the reported contributions from Soros was “only 7 percent of our income over the last 3 years” (it is 15% if you aggregate Soros and Connie) He says that, taken together, they have received 10 million from 2007 through this date…so he is dividing 3 years income into the donation by one of the 2 (or possibly 3, if Benter gave also in later years) to one of the 3 accounts.

It seems very likely he is hiding important information which perhaps you can find and disclose, namely the returns for 2007 and 2009 on at least the (3) and (4) accounts, and possibly the PAC* I would wager that the fraction of money contributed by these big 2 (or 3) is well over 50 percent and that such a discovery would help others understand how far from a “grass roots organization” they are. Having 3 people give the vast majority of the money is not illegal or unusual...I think the same could be said for the Tea Party funds for example, but J Street has pretended that they are not funded this way and still make this claim on the basis of the 7 % figure.

I hope you can dig up the other returns.

*Arguably the PAC donations are irrelevant to the question of J Street activities support as all that goes to politicians.

Thanks again,

Bob Gutman