Very good info on this page from 1988, in the form of a timeline:A Radical Electronic Resource: George Bush, anti-Semites and the Big Lie 9/10/88 -- The Philadelphia Inquirer runs an article by David Lee Preston which corroborates much of the material in Washington Jewish Week. Preston also cites the Bellant report which describes how the Republican Party has been recruiting ethnic facists, racists and anti-Semites for over 20 years, through its Heritage Groups Council.
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New York Post columnist Pete Hamill in a column titled "George Bush and his fascist fan club" quotes Menachem Rosensaft, president of the Labor Zionist Alliance and leader of the International Network of Children of the Holocaust:
"He accepted their resignations. And he said he was against anti-Semitism. But when they were gone, an aide said the charges against these men were `unsubstantiated and politically motivated.' Clearly Bush wanted them out once they were exposed, but he still wants the votes of their constituency."
9/29/88 -- Ron Kauffman, Northeast political director for Bush Campaign tells the Jewish Advocate newspaper the Bellant report as "totally outrageous." Mark Goodin, Bush Campaign spokesman, denounces Bellant's report and says people who voluntary resigned from campaign "vigorously defended" themselves against the charges. "We were not able to substantiate any of the allegations...These individuals maintain fierce opposition to the
charges. We certainly accept that explanation."
So the Bush campaign has come full circle to a total whitewash of the allegations. Just last week author Charles R. Allen Jr., an expert on the emigre Nazi network, questioned the candor of Bush when he "professed ignorance of
pro-Nazi backgrounds" of the ethnic campaign supporters. Allen produced a 1983 photograph of George Bush shaking hands with Yaroslav Stetsko, then leader of the pro-Nazi Anti-bolshevik Bloc of Nations. The photo was taken at a White House reception. Bush signed the photo: "To the Honorable Yaroslav Stetsko with best wishes - George Bush." Allen also produced a 1976 RNC memo in which Bush, as RNC Chair, is reported to have reviewed the past work of the Republican Heritage Groups Council and set goals for the coming year. What Allen, Bellant and other critics conclude is that if George Bush becomes President he will continue to collaborate with Nazi collaborators, anti-Semites, fascists and racists as long as their hard-line anti-communism is useful to the Republican Party and a militant foreign policy.
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