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February 07, 2015
Obama administration 'sent a message' to black Democratic lawmakers that they should skip Netanyahu speech to Congress
Two prominent black Democrats in the House of Representatives are vowing to skip Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress next month, a move that a White House insider says was put in motion by the Obama administration.
John Lewis of Georgia and G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina both said Friday that they disapproved when House Speaker John Boehner invited the Israeli leader to address a joint session of Congress on March 3 without consulting President Barack Obama first.
That disapproval apparently was orchestrated, or at least strongly encouraged, by the White House through communications with lawmakers connected to the Congressional Black Caucus.
‘I’m not saying the president called anyone personally,’ a current White House staffer told Daily Mail Online.
‘But yeah, the White House sent a message to some at the CBC that they should suddenly be very upset about the speech.’
The source said it was a ‘back-channel’ arrangement that did not involve the higher echelons of the West Wing.
Butterfield’s spokeswoman Kezmiché Atterbury denied it on Friday afternoon, saying he ‘was not asked by anyone at the White House or otherwise’ to skip Netanyahu’s planned address.
The North Carolinian is the CBC’s chairman. he told the Associated Press that a growing boycott ‘is not an organized effort.’
Wild Thing's comment..........
The nerve this kind of thing takes is amazing to me. Obama the dictator!!!! And this attitude toward Israel and to Bibi is unforgivable.
Posted by Wild Thing at February 7, 2015 12:47 AM
Comments
I wonder why he would send this to Black lawmakers? It sure like he wants to increase the racial divide in this country.
Posted by: BobF at February 7, 2015 07:33 AM
To Bob; Yes.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at February 7, 2015 12:43 PM
