Congressional Black Caucus chairman G.K. Butterfield (D-North Carolina) last week accused Israel's prime minister of being "disrespectful" to President Obama, and caucus member Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) said the controversy over Prime Minister Netanyahu's upcoming speech to Congress is "about President Barack Obama being a black man disrespected by a foreign leader."
But not all the African-American congressmembers joined the anti-Netanyahu chorus. U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), who is the only senator in the Congressional Black Caucus, refused to toe the line; when reporters asked Booker where he stand regarding the speech, and he pointedly dissented, saying "I've been asked that a number of times--I'm not commenting."
Kol Tuv,
RRW
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Yesterday, March 2, the day before the speech, Representative Charles Rangle was listed as not planning to attend PM Netanyahu's speech. I called his DC office and pleaded that he attend... not to allow a boggled invitation to get in his way of hearing out PM Netanyahu on this important decision. HE CAME!!!!
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