Miami Is Changing—So Are Miami's Jews
T he news that President Carter's United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, had met in New York with a PLO representative spread furiously among the...
T he news that President Carter's United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, had met in New York with a PLO representative spread furiously among the mostly Jewish residents of the new high-rise condominiums along southern Florida's Gold Coast. Nowhere in the state was there a more dependable Democratic constituency, but the condominium voters were outraged by what they saw as Carter's disloyalty to Israel. The ace Democratic operative in the condo communities, a diminutive Jewish woman named Anne 'Annie' Ackerman, quickly recognized the danger and called her White House contacts with an urgent message: 'You've got to get someone down here.