Kentucky Republican Rep. Geoff Davis had not signed on to J Street’s host committee for their conference kicking off later this week, but he was, as of yesterday, listed as a participant in a panel discussion titled “View from the Hill: Congress and the U.S.-Israel Relationship.” You can see the cached page from Google here. Today, that same panel is two speakers smaller than it was yesterday — the names of both Robert Wexler and Geoff Davis have been removed. Wexler is now slated to introduce Jim Jones, the conference’s keynote speaker. It’s possible that Davis — as of this morning the only Republican who was associated with the conference other than Louisiana Rep. Charles Boustany — has dropped out completely. Or maybe he’s playing some other role for J Street. THE WEEKLY STANDARD has put several calls into Representative Davis’s office to clarify, and we’ll update this post if anyone on Davis’s staff can find the time to answer the question definitively: Has Davis dropped out of the anti-Israel bash, or is he participating in the conference in some other, as yet unrevealed, capacity?
