Radio Lady: "It's Time for A Change" from the 1950s!

[Radio_Lady]

I resurrected one of my father's old campaign flyers from the 1950s. Although he may have flirted with Marxism during his college days, he was a Democrat all his life at a time when the "Solid South" meant solidly Democratic.

Guess what his political slogan was:

"IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE!"

He was a white man, a member of a Conservative Jewish (that's religious terminology) temple, and president of the brotherhood there. Dad ran for the North Miami, Florida, City Council, was elected and then was chosen as Vice Mayor. Eventually, he became a Municipal Judge. He practiced law in downtown Miami, and then moved his office to a small strip mall on West Dixie Highway.

The people he ran against were largely Italian Catholics and maybe a couple of WASPS!

One of the election rallies was scheduled on a September or possibly early October day. On the Jewish calendar, it was Yom Kippur. That's the Jewish Day of Atonement -- the highest holiday among practicing Jews.

My father did not attend that rally and later wrote a play about his ethical decision. The play was called "The Candidate" and was performed at the University of Miami along with two other one-act plays. Dad had the pleasure of being in the audience and hearing his words come to life.

I wish I had kept the script, but during the several moves from Miami to Boston to Portland, Oregon, it was inadvertently discarded.

Cordially,

Radio Lady Ellen Kimball in Oregon

[Drunken Irishman]

1. When you say Conservative, was he a Republican or a Democrat?

Hard to imagine many Jewish Republicans.

I still have a hard time accepting there are Irish Republicans!

[Genevieve]

2. A Conservative Jew means that you are neither an Orthodox Jew nor a

Reformed Jew, but your beliefs and practices liesomewhere in-between the two.
It's not a political leaning, it's a religious view.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I guess that explains the capital C!

[Genevieve]

7. Exactly! nt

[Eric Condon]

3. Oh, but sadly there are the latter - BillO, Hannity etc going around giving us a bad name

I prefer to focus on the good that's been done by my fellow McLibs.

That's what the little artwork in my sig line is all about. Here's a larger version:

[Genevieve]

4. There's plenty of Jewish Republicans as well --

Lieberman, fo example.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. I like that!

And yes, there are a few, but I'd like to think they're in the minority.

[Radio_Lady]

8. Conservative means one of the various branches of Judaism...

Reform, Conservative, Orthodox are the traditional divisions.

It has nothing to do with politics in that context.

Cordially,

RL in OR

[Drunken Irishman]

9. I know this, someone already informed me above.

:D

[Audio_Al]

10. My wife, Radio Lady, advises she could not see the other person's responses to you.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. Ah, well that explains it!

:hi: