Roll Call Reports: California Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman have purchased almost $1.5 million combined in cable television time ahead of their June 5 primary, according to figures provided by the campaigns. Read more »

City and State Reports: A non-profit founded and chaired by Republican Senate candidate Nachman Caller has launched an effort to register 3,000 new, primarily Republican voters in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park, according to Caller’s political adviser.

The adviser, Michael Fragin, said that Caller’s non-profit, The Family First Organization, was now beginning the efforts to register the voters in the heavily Orthodox Jewish enclave, an effort that also would obviously also be helpful to Caller’s campaign. Fragin said he did not know who funded the non-profit, which Fragin said was a 501(c)4, though Caller, a wealthy real estate lawyer, is himself obviously a likely candidate.

Caller used the same organization to bash Councilman Lew Fidler’s position on gay marriage through newspaper ads, during the Senate special election between Councilman Lew Fidler and Republican David Storobin. That effort, along with the voter registration efforts, could help Caller gain credibility with Republican voters, especially since Caller is a political unknown who previously had been registered as a Democrat. Caller is reportedly willing to spend $100,000 of his own money in the Senate race.

Last night, Republican State Senate candidates David Storobin and Nachman Caller met to discuss the current state of affairs in the district that they are both seeking to represent (Super Jewish District SD17), according to multiple sources. Each of the candidates, presumably, would prefer to have an uncontested primary so he could wade into the general election from a position of strength. One source described the meeting as partially a discussion as to who would be the stronger challenger to Democratic candidate Simcha Felder, but Michael Fragin, an adviser to Mr. Caller, described it as more of a general discussion. – Colin Campbell

Nachman Caller, a wealthy but politically unknown Republican, campaign circulated a photo of Caller voting in Tuesday’s presidential primary for Republican Mitt Romney. That was also meant highlight the fact that Felder voted in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary for Barack Obama – a vote could prove problematic in the Senate race, since Obama is deeply unpopular in Brooklyn’s Orthodox community. Felder says he now regrets the decision, and would not repeat it. “He’s been a terrible president,” Felder said of Obama. “Unfortunately, I was wrong, and I will certainly not be voting for the president in the upcoming election.” – Chris Bragg

Earlier today, former Councilman Simcha Felder got a big boost to his recently announced State Senate campaign with the formal endorsement of the two most prominent elected officials in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community: Councilman David Greenfield and Assemblyman Dov Hikind. Their endorsements were expected, as Mr. Hikind and Mr. Greenfield had already been extraordinarily effusive in their praise, more of which was generously heaped onto Mr. Felder today as well. – Colin Campbell

Chris Bragg Reports:  At an endorsement press conference today in Borough Park, Councilman David Greenfield and Assemblyman Dov Hikind heaped praise upon Simcha Felder, the ex-councilman both lawmakers are backing in Brooklyn’s new “Super-Jewish” state Senate district.

But definitive answers to the question of whom Felder, a Democrat, would ultimately caucus with in Albany remained elusive. Read more »

Only 24 of the 435 full members of the House of Representatives are Jewish. All but one of them are Democrats. As of the last fundraising filings, the above 23 Democrats raised a total $28,989,649 this election cycle to an average $1,260,419 per Jewish Dem House Member. When you add the campaign receipts of the sole Jewish Republican, the total raised by Jewish Hill Members is $34,125,742; giving each member an average $1,421,905 in fundraising.

All in all, House members raked in this cycle a total of $575,614,453 to an average fundraising total of $1,323,251 per House member.

Jewish members on The Hill are slightly more than 5.5% of the House membership, and their fundraising totals is approximately 6% of all money raised by House members this election cycle.

Here is a list of fundraising totals of each Jewish House Memeber: Read more »