Press Contact: Kylie Cafiero, (202) 547-2900 kcafiero@osia.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 25, 2006 – The Free Enterprise Fund Committee, a lobbying group in Washington, DC, is guilty of stereotyping Italian Americans, charges the Commission for Social Justice (CSJ), the anti-defamation arm of the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA), the largest Italian American organization in the United States.
The charges followed the recent airing of a television political commercial by the Committee in support of Thomas Kean, Jr., who is running for the United States Senate in New Jersey. The commercial can be seen at www.fefcommittee.org/politicos.html.
In the political commercial, (more…)
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