Likud Campaign Hires GOP Digital Media Guru Vincent Harris

[Brian4Liberty]

Likud Campaign Hires GOP Digital Media Guru Vincent Harris

The Likud Party campaign has hired a renowned GOP digital media guru to handle the party’s campaign via the internet and social media, according to a report by Army Radio political correspondent, Ido Benbaji.

According to the report, revealed Monday morning by Benbaji, Netanyahu has hired 26-year-old Vincent Harris, who recently worked for Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
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More:
http://jpupdates.com/2015/02/02/likud/

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Doesn't mention whether he's still on our team specifically tho he did make a point to say that this is separate from his US work which lends me to thinking he's still with us. If that's the case, this is a pretty tight link between Rand's camp and Netanyahu even if there's nothing direct. Interesting is interesting.

 

[svobody]

Doesn't mention whether he's still on our team specifically tho he did make a point to say that this is separate from his US work which lends me to thinking he's still with us. If that's the case, this is a pretty tight link between Rand's camp and Netanyahu even if there's nothing direct. Interesting is interesting.

Checking Vincent's twitter feed, I think it's safe to say his firm is working for Rand and Netanyahu

 

[William Tell]

Likud Campaign Hires GOP Digital Media Guru Vincent Harris

He's still working for Rand. Rand mentioned all of this on his Texas Trib interview the other day. A few minutes into the video as I recall.

http://www.texastribune.org/2015/02/01/inside-texas-politics-rand-paul-makes-move/

 

[The Gold Standard]

How heartwarming. Maybe they will all get together over a glass of the blood of Palestinian children while they exchange pleasantries and taxpayer money.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Meanwhile, in Israel...

A leading American political strategist with deep ties to the Republican party was hired by the ruling Likud party and will serve as its media consultant ahead of the upcoming March 17 elections, Army Radio reported.

Vincent Harris, the CEO of the Austin-based firm Harris Media, currently serves as Chief Digital Strategist to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, and was highly active in the 2012 US presidential elections, where he handled online campaigning for candidates Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich.

Harris also worked in digital campaigning alongside Senator Ted Cruz in 2012 and Senator Mitch McConnell in 2014, significantly advancing social media presence and following for both US representatives.

The news of Harris’s joining with Likud comes amid a furor over a link between the V15 movement, a nonprofit Israeli group working to oust Netanyahu, and a former Democratic campaigner.

On Sunday, Likud accused the rival Zionist Camp of working with the V15 movement, which is funded by international donors, thereby engaging in illegal campaign financing.

Last week, Cruz issued a inquiry letter to the White House after Haaretz reported Jeremy Bird, the national field director for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012, was leading V15’s get-out-the-vote effort.
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Zionist Camp leader Isaac Herzog on Sunday evening responded to the accusations as well, calling them “lies” from a panicking Likud faction.
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The Zionist Camp, a joint Knesset list from the Labor and Hatnua parties, is considered to have the best chance of unseating Likud in the March 17 elections.
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More: http://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-hires-top-republican-strategist-ahead-of-elections/

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Doesn't mention whether he's still on our team specifically tho he did make a point to say that this is separate from his US work which lends me to thinking he's still with us. If that's the case, this is a pretty tight link between Rand's camp and Netanyahu even if there's nothing direct. Interesting is interesting.

Yet the neoconservatives still attack Rand...

 

[philipped]

How heartwarming. Maybe they will all get together over a glass of the blood of Palestinian children while they exchange pleasantries and taxpayer money.

You're a hypebeast lol. He's probably just helping out with their Twitter game & their FB swag, get a grip.

He's still with the candidate who eventually wants to end all foreign aid...

 

[Rudeman]

Yet the neoconservatives still attack Rand...

That's assuming neoconservatives actually care about Israel, Netanyahu could endorse Rand and it wouldn't make a difference.

 

[Foreigner]

Ugh. I often defend Israel in debates I have with people, but Netanyahu is poison. He is convinced that the less stable the middle east is, the stronger Israel will be. To create chaos, he has no morals, and have been collaborating with Al-Qaeda backed groups like Jundullah and Al Nusra to attack Shiites.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Checking Vincent's twitter feed, I think it's safe to say his firm is working for Rand and Netanyahu

Which begs the question, is it a good idea to have a key person on a US campaign that is also working for a foreign politician? What are the legal ramifications?

And the irony is that even if it was blatantly illegal, would any politician or media person in the US dare to complain about it?