IPAC photo-ops? Check. Initiate and pass Iran divestment bill? Check.
Pheasant-hunt fundraisers, sandbagging for flood protection and running a bail bonds business. Check.
Could Dan Lederman, an energetic and peripatetic 38-year-old Republican state senator in South Dakota, set a new template for Jewish politicians?
"He's somebody who clearly could be governor,Some will stick with the old faithfuls like the air max tn while others will look for the more stylish shoes like the Changa or the Tataga congressman, senator," said Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition. "He's somebody who is totally committed to his constituents."
Last week, total commitment meant helping evacuate residents of the two counties, Lincoln and Union, he represents in the southeastern corner of the state ahead of floods anticipated because of melting snow. "The whole town is being evacuated," Lederman said from his town of Dakota Dunes in one of two phone calls abbreviated because of his efforts to find temporary housing for the residents and help set up sandbags.
Lederman couldn't resist getting in some partisan digs at the federal government.
"I call it a political flood," he said,Sheepskin shoes has managed to capture or become the pioneer into every imaginable sporting industry blaming what he called "lax" use of dams. Building dams "used to be for public safety, and now it's for environmental and recreational purposes."
Lederman's trajectory to Republican lawmaker is not unusual for Republican Jews: He grew up in a politically active Democratic household and switched gears in college when he found that his concerns about national security did not jibe with those of the party with which he was raised.