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Arthur Finkelstein Arthur has always had a reputation for doing the nasty -- nasty campaign ads, that is. This hotshot political consultant has been behind the most cynical attack-driven ad campaigns ever seen. His ads have helped send to Washington liberal-bashing, gay-bashing creeps like Jesse Helms (NC), Bob Smith (NH), and Don Nickles (OK). Arthur made his first big splash on the political scene when his client, Alfonse D'Amato, knocked off three-term incumbent Jacob Javits in the 1980 New York Republican primary. Many of his clients have been known for their use of anti-gay language. And yet, in 1996, we learned that Arthur, an eccentric recluse rarely photographed, lives in Massachusetts with his male companion and their two adopted children. So Arthur's gay, and yet he works for anti-gay candidates. He's also Jewish, but that didn't stop him from working with Lee Atwater in a nasty 1978 South Carolina Congressional race in which voters were constantly reminded that the Democratic candidate was Jewish. But Arthur's luck has been petering out. Voters have grown tired of the scathing personal attacks that have dominated his campaigns. In 1998, the only two Republican Senators who failed to win reelection were D'Amato and Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina. Both were Arthur's clients. But not anymore. |
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