Wiesenthal Center Weighs In On CD2 Negative Mailers

from Village to Village
by Suzanne Lauer

With one day left to the CD2 election, those negative mailers from last week are continuing to haunt the CD2 candidates. On KPCC’s “AIRTALK” this morning, CD2 Candidate, Christine Essel was taken to task by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Associate Dean of the world’s leading Jewish human rights organization, demanded an apology from Essel.

As previously reported, last week the Essel campaign sent out a campaign flyer utilizing images of the Holocaust, and accusing her opponent, Paul Krekorian of sexism and anti-semitism. The images includes the word “Intolerance” over a picture of City Hall covered in barbed wire, as well as what many are referring to as “skinhead imagery.”

Rabbi Cooper said, “The flyer was disgusting and inappropriate.” He strongly added, “She should apologize.”

Essel responded on air response to the Rabbi, “There are different views on that subject from different sides of the Jewish community.”

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