Marisa Kabas: AIPAC has spent nearly 15 MILLION DOLLARS to beat jamaal bowman. this is not how democracy should work!!!

AIPAC has spent nearly 15 MILLION DOLLARS to beat jamaal bowman. this is not how democracy should work!!!

AIPAC Unleashes a Record $14.5 Million Bid to Defeat a Critic of Israelwww.nytimes.com The deluge in outside spending, which also includes another $1 million from another pro-Israel group, threatens to sink Representative Jamaal Bowman.

One could go so far as to say this is not democracy.

one could!

Has anyone analyzed what AIPAC spends against white incumbents vs Black incumbents?

would be interesting

I'm living in the middle of this here in Cori Bush's district in St Louis. AIPAC is heavily funding her opponent Wesley Bell in the primary challenge. It is remarkably disappointing because Bell is a serious politician who should be running for literally ANY other position than this one.

liberals tell the justice-minded they must vote for the guy who funds racist ethnonationalists because "that's what's demanded in the hard-nosed exercise of power." then they stand by and watch a Black congressman and his young supporters get crushed and shrug, "that's just pure democracy" love it!

Talking to my lib boomer dad yesterday, he brought up the Bowman situation, and mentioned his intent to send JB some cash. AIPAC is overplaying their hand.

it’s oversimplified, but if German fascism was, not surprisingly, fundamentally idea-driven, in the US, equally characteristically, it is/will be driven by money

Is this one of those things that’s only allowed due to Citizens United?

Booooo. OTOH they had to spend that much. It’s a backhanded compliment to Bowman.

AIPAC has _______. This is not how democracy should work. (fill in the blank, there’s no wrong answer)

They spent 3.2 million here to defeat Susheela Jayapal. www.opb.org/article/2024...

A major pro-Israel group spent big to influence one Oregon congressional racewww.opb.org Filings show a political action committee tied to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent $1.3 million on attacks against former Multnomah County Commissioner Susheela Jayapal in May.

15 megabucks in a fracking primary by a foreign entity that claims to not be foreign. Yay democracy!

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