A California trade union placed a political advertisement on Facebook about state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, that evoked anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews and money. The State Building and Construction Trades Council later removed the ad and apologized after being called out by the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, the political news website CalMatters…
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