Our friend Joel Pollack has just publically announced his intention to run for a seat in the US Congress.
You can see him announce it here on fox news: The announcement on Fox news
He has also put up a website www.pollakforcongress.com. I encourage people to sign up and offer support.
Joel is smart, principled, capable and deeply committed to human rights and the safety and security of all people in the United States and the state of Israel. America needs more people like Joel in Washington DC!
Joel's Facebook page has all the details of his campaign. You can also follow him on twitter at www.twitter.com/joelpollak
Good Luck Joel!
How exactly would we go about supporting him? Most of us here aren't US citizens.
Posted by: Ariel | September 04, 2009 at 09:32
Well you could help raise money for 1.
You could also tell your friends that are American to vote for him.
Posted by: Mike | September 04, 2009 at 18:02
I think Joel is making a mistake. Congress is an unfunny circus, all empty theatrics and corrupt to the core. Everywhere politics is ruinous and a poison, in America though it takes on a circus-like folly unseen anywhere else in the West. Mike, if he's running for Congress (in Illinois right?) then you have to be an Illinois resident to vote for him, or am I wrong? Joel is naive if he thinks he can change things from the inside, reform the system from within as it were. He will just get swallowed up by it, that is if he is successful in his bid for Congress.
Posted by: Lawrence | September 05, 2009 at 09:58
Pollak is going to get spanked, and deservedly so. He's running against Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D) in one of the most liberal districts in the country (D+20). Obama won the district with 72% of the vote, Schakowsky regularly breaks 75%.
I also don't see where Pollak has an angle on Schakowsky in terms of drawing support from the Jewish community. She's on the Midwest Governing Council of the Jewish Congress and is almost certainly more tied into the local Jewish community than Pollak is. On the issues, Schakowsky is strongly supportive of Israel and always has been throughout her entire Congressional tenure, while likewise being broadly supportive of the peace process -- a stance in line with the American Jewish community and her district. Beyond Israel, of course, Pollak is a run of the mill conservative, and Schakowsky is a staunch liberal, which, from both my perspective and the perspective of most district (and Jewish) voters, makes her a better fit.
Of course, if one has views closer to Pollak than Schakowsky, than by all means support the challenge. But that's a set of persons which includes precious few Jews (in the Illinois 9th District or nationwide).
Posted by: David Schraub | September 09, 2009 at 03:22
Go Joel, Jan and her friends wanted "change" now give it to them!
Posted by: theriom | October 19, 2009 at 18:09
If Schakowsky is such a staunch supporter of Israel, where was her voice when for the first time in US History, the administration under Obama did not vote against the UN Sanction to force Israel to reveal their nuclear weapons. She was silent. Or the fact that the administration has not gone to Israel yet, where is her voice?
Posted by: Bryna Kanarek | October 25, 2009 at 17:04