People ask me all the time to explain what accounts for all this special attention.
Most recently, attorney Douglas Emhoff attended an event here on behalf of his wife, Kamala Harris, the senator from California currently running for vice president on the Democratic ticket. Ron Wyden of Oregon spoke here, President Bill Clinton made a famous speech here and Michael Bloomberg chose to hold his first Jewish outreach program in our city. Gary Hart’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984, and the time he spent in the area (that ended badly, as we have chronicled elsewhere). To run through some of the more noteworthy examples of this phenomenon, we recall Sen. The Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center is often a connection between high-level campaign donors and national political candidates.
