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Shadowy GOP firm is behind pressure campaign on Schumer over antisemitism bill

JL;DR SUMMARY In a recent political controversy, the Florence Avenue Initiative, a shadowy group linked to a GOP firm, invested heavily in a media campaign targeting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over his perceived opposition to the Antisemitism Awareness Act. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Anti ZionismBipartisanChuck SchumerAntisemitism Awareness ActDel Cielo MediaFlorence Avenue InitiativeRepublican FirmHoward Kenyon

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New York, United States
"Television ads and mailers in New York and several battleground states slammed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer this summer for his purported opposition to a bill addressing antisemitism."
Pennsylvania, United States
"This election cycle, the firm was also paid more than $7 million to run attack ads against Sen. Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat who has been one of the strongest supporters of the very same antisemitism bill the group attacked Schumer for supposedly opposing."
Austin, Texas, United States
"Those Federal Communications Commission records, which have not been previously reported, show that the Florence Avenue Initiative is run by Howard Kenyon, Sara Lytle and David Neelley out of a UPS box outside Austin, Texas, and that the group hired Del Cielo Media to purchase its TV ads."

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