Mark Broxmeyer

David Steinmann is chairman of JINSA's board, which is populated with a number of rightist voices, such as Anne Bayefsky, Stephen Bryen , Phyllis Kaminsky, Max Kampelman, Jack Kemp, Michael Ledeen, Joshua Muravchik, Richard Perle, and James Woolsey. The group's agenda includes pushing U.S.-Israeli weapons contracts, nurturing military-to-military relations between the two countries, and pushing a hard line on Mideast peace. As journalist Jason Vest writes, "JINSA relishes denouncing virtually any type of contact between the U.S. government and Syria and finding new ways to demonize the Palestinians."

The conservative Broxmeyer made his millions in Long Island real estate, cofounding Fairfield Properties in 1973. Since then he has also acquired and developed properties in Texas (Long Island Business News, May 20, 2005). Broxmeyer donated $2,000 to George W. Bush's 2004 presidential run and $10,000 to the Republican National Committee (FundRace.org). As far as the 2008 presidential race goes, Broxmeyer has given $2,100 to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (Newsmeat.com). In 2006, Broxmeyer promised $1 million to his alma mater Hofstra University to endow a chair in national security studies (Hofstra Magazine, Fall 2006), but the promise seemed to sour after Broxmeyer was sued by Hofstra Law School's student law clinic on behalf of tenants of a property owned by Fairfield Properties (see EDonors.net). A few months later, Broxmeyer had not yet decided whether or not to leave his long-held post as Hofstra trustee or whether to rescind his pledge (1010 News Radio, October 7, 2006).

In late 2006, the parties reached an agreement—by which time Broxmeyer had left his post as trustee: "A millionaire real estate tycoon who recently pledged $1 million to Hofstra University only to find himself sued by Hofstra Law School's housing rights clinic has settled a dispute with Latino tenants in Farmingdale, his attorney and others said yesterday. Mark Broxmeyer, an owner of Fairfield Properties, who until last month was also a trustee at Hofstra, has agreed to provide seven families still remaining at 150 Secatogue Ave. with cash or guaranteed affordable housing for several years. The deal will cost the company at least $110,000, said Ami Lipman, a law student at the clinic. In exchange, Fairfield, a property management company, will be dropped from a federal discrimination lawsuit the law clinic filed against Farmingdale Village and the previous owner of the building, said Hofstra law professor Stefan Krieger, who filed the suit" ("Housing Bias Case Settlement," CCAF). The status of his pledge remains unclear, but as of May 2007, it does not seem that the university has an endowed chair on national security.

Broxmeyer is also an honorary board member of the nonprofit group Splashes of Hope, which funds original painted murals in hospitals to improve the atmosphere. In 2001, he was given the Community Service Award from Nassau County's Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center.

In mid-2003 Broxmeyer began pitching around offers to buy the Montreal Expos baseball team. Reported Newsday in July 2003: "He's getting set to sit down later this month with existing owners who will have a major say in picking which of three groups, Broxmeyer's included, gets to buy the Expos from Major League Baseball, which is in its second year of owning and operating the team. The team would move to the Washington, DC, area—where Broxmeyer, as national chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, occasionally meets with the former Texas Rangers owner who now lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave." (Newsday, July 7, 2003). Broxmeyer's bid, though unsuccessful, would have included an interesting group of investors: "Mr. Broxmeyer has so far convinced Fox News's Bill O'Reilly's lawyer, Ben Morelli, and the chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, Fred Zeidman, to join his investors. Steve Forbes has also said he 'wants to participate,' and Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is 'definitely interested,' said Mr. Broxmeyer" (New York Sun, November 8, 2004).

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Dawn Wotapka Hardesty, "Interview with Mark Broxmeyer, Long Island Real Estate Magnate," Long Island Business News, May 20, 2005.

Jason Vest, "The Men From CSP and JINSA," Nation, August 15, 2002, http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20020902&s=vest.

Neighbor Search, FundRace.org, http://fundrace.org/neighbors.php?search=1&type=name&lname=BROXMEYER.

Newsmeat.com, "Mark Broxmeyer's Federal Campaign Contribution Search Results," http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=&zip=11545&last=Broxmeyer&first=Mark.

"Gift from Trustee Mark Broxmeyer Endows a Visiting Chair in National Security Studies," Hofstra Magazine, Fall 2006, http://www.hofstra.edu/Alumni/HofMagazine/hofmag_f06_hofhapp.html.

"Suit Puts Hofstra Donor on the Fence—Trustee, Who Also Is Target of cCase Initiated by School's Law Clinic Involving a Building He Owns, 'Upset' by Action," EDonors.net, undated, http://www.edonors.net/Suit-puts-Hofstra-donor-on-the-fence.html.

"Housing Bias Case Settlement, November 2006," undated, Concerned Citizens Association of Farmingdale.

1010 News Radio, "Hofstra Clinic Sues Respected Donor," October 7, 2006, http://www.1010wins.com/print_page.php?contentId=219228&contentType=4.

Splashes of Hope, Advisory Board, http://www.splashesofhope.org/about/advisory.htm.

A.J. Carter, "Standing on Deck to Buy a Team," Newsday, July 7, 2003.

Julie Satow, "New York Developer Aims to Buy Baseball's Expos," New York Sun, November 8, 2004.

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