Election 2000

Congressional
Losses And Gains

JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent

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ost members of the
Jewish delegation on
Capitol Hill survived
Tuesday night's chaos,
but there was one shocker: Rep. Sam
Gejdenson (D-Conn.), first elected in
1980, was unseated by state Rep.
Robert R. Simmons, a former congres-
sional aide.
Gejdenson is the ranking Democrat
on the House International Relations
Committee and a strong backer of
Israel. In the past few years he also
became the most vocal supporter of
the Middle East peace process.
But Gejdenson, who was born in a
German displaced persons camp after
World War II, was attacked for not
paying enough attention to the close-
to-home issues that matter for
Connecticut voters. After a number of
election scares in recent years, he final-
ly succumbed to a strong challenge.
The number of Jews serving in the
House of Representatives will increase
from 23 to at least 27 — and possibly
as many as 29.
In California, State Assembly mem-
ber Susan Davis, a Democrat, was
ahead of Rep. Brian R Bilbray, a
Republican, and former Rep. Jane
Harman had a tiny edge over Rep.
Steven T. Kuykendall, a Republican, as
of Wednesday morning. In a third race
there, State Sen. Adam Schiff unseated
Rep. James Rogan, a Republican who
served as one of the House impeach-
ment managers. It was the most
expensive House race in history.
In Illinois, Lauren Beth Gash, a
Jewish Democrat in a Chicago suburb,
lost her battle against Republican Mark

Vote Of Conscience

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air Nadiv, a Republican from the
Detroit suburb of Huntington
Woods, had just done something he'd
never done before: He voted for a
Democratic presidential candidate.
The dual citizen of Israel and the
United States believes that with the
Middle East in turmoil, -U.S. policy

Steven Kirk for an open House seat.
Susan Bass Levin, the Democratic
mayor of Cherry Hill, N.J., fell short
in her bid to replace Rep. Jim Saxton,
a Republican.
In Florida, challenger Elaine Bloom
was virtually tied with Rep. Clay
Shaw, a Republican.

Other. Results

The Jewish Republican ranks in the
House tripled, thanks to victories by
Eric Cantor, a Republican state legisla-
tor in Richmond, Va., and former
Rep. Dick Zimmer, who apparently
unseated Rep. Rush Holt, a Democrat,
in another photo-finish race in New
Jersey.
In Delaware, Sen. William Roth, a
Republican and chair of the powerful
Finance Committee, was defeated by
Gov. Thomas Carper, a Democrat.
Roth — who is not Jewish — has gen-
erally been uninvolved in Mideast
issues; Carper, a former congressman,
has a record of active support for
Israel.
Jews will hold at least nine seats in
the new Senate — and a 10th if either
Joseph Lieberman winds up retaining
his Connecticut seat or the state's gov-
ernor appoints a Jew to replace him,
in the event that he becomes the first-
ever Jewish vice president. Either way,
this represents a decrease from the cur-
rent 11, with the retirement of Frank
Lautenberg (D-N.J.) after 18 years.
In the most watched Senate race in
the country — and the only one in
which Mideast politics played a major
role — First Lady Hillary Clinton eas-
ily outdistanced Rep. Rick Lazio, a
Republican.
Controversies over Ms. Clinton's
embrace of Yasser Arafat's wife and her
campaign contributions from Muslim

should not be in the hands of an ama-
teur in foreign affairs.
Al Gore is more experienced, "shows
more intelligence, and his commitment
to Israel seems very, very strong," said
Nadiv, 40, whose youngest child, his
prayer shawl fringes dangling from his
shirt, accompanied his dad from the
polling area. "I voted basically my con-
science as a Jewish man first."
Nadiv said he would have voted for

