Posted on 08/08/2022 6:22:37 AM PDT by cotton1706
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has spent more than $24 million to defeat progressive candidates in this year's Democratic primaries.
The United Democracy Project (UDP), an AIPAC-affiliated super PAC, has already spent $24.2 million on Democratic primaries this cycle, including millions that it raised from top Republican megadonors like Paul Singer and Bernard Marcus. The money has helped AIPAC-backed candidates wipe out progressives in primaries in Michigan, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, California and Ohio.
UDP and other pro-Israel groups tied to AIPAC – Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), Urban Empowerment Action PAC and Pro-Israel America PAC — spent more than $10 million combined in three Michigan primaries, The Intercept reported, to defeat progressive candidates, including last week's loss for Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., who has been called the most progressive Jewish member of the House.
"I'm really Jewish," Levin, a former synagogue president, told MSNBC last week. "But AIPAC can't stand the idea that I am the clearest, strongest Jewish voice in Congress standing for a simple proposition: that there is no way to have a secure, democratic homeland for the Jewish people unless we achieve the political and human rights of the Palestinian people."
UDP spent more than $4 million on ads opposing Levin and backing his opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., after they both opted to run in the state's 11th District following redistricting. Stevens on Tuesday defeated Levin, 60-40.
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Please tell me the ‘Rats don’t do the same thing to interfere with Republican politics. FJB.
Progressives Dems are indistinguishable from the moderates. It is not like the 1970s and 1980s when progressives like Bela Abzug and moderates like Henry Scoop Jackson had strong differences of opinion on many issues. Today, the party has become completely radicalized, and the moderates are only slightly less vocal about it. In other words, moderate only in their disposition and temperament, not in policies.
Getting not insane candidates in the Democrat Party would be better imo. Don’t see a downside to this.
GOP: American PAC funding pro-American candidates.
Democrat Party: Foreign billionaires funding anti-American candidates.
womp womp
‘Rats don’t do the same thing to interfere with Republican politics.
When someone has to say “I’m really Jewish.”, they probably are anti-Jew.
ALL DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL.
Usually we hear about this with outside money influencing progressives to help them. This is a switch.
Stupid party. The GOP should want to run against progressives, not “moderates”. But again, we see the GOPe are actually assistant democrats
Alarming?
It isn’t ‘alarming’ when Soros and the Dems do that for establishment-type Republican candidates.
Maybe Republicans are finally playing some of the same political games Dems have been playing for decades.
The good guys getting smart?
Imagine that.
About damn time we started hitting back.
No such thing as a moderate Dem anymore.
Grandstanders….for sure…..Sinema & Manchin….no sane person would have voted for the latest bill that is floating.
But even if there are some that could be considered moderate, their moderation is behind closed doors. In public there’s no separating them from The Squad, they may not be as vocal. It’s all about how they vote and they vote with the progressives every time.
“But AIPAC can’t stand the idea that I am the clearest, strongest Jewish voice in Congress standing for a simple proposition: that there is no way to have a secure, democratic homeland for the Jewish people unless we achieve the political and human rights of the Palestinian people.”
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I thought he was supposed to ‘Represent’ Michigan voters.
Why do we still call these people “progressive”?
Take out your opponents at every turn, that’s a good thing.
Don’t see a downside to this.
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They will still follow and vote the progressive line.
They just won’t look so extreme and wacky doing it, being ‘moderate’.
Because the left controls the narrative and we always have allowed them to do that by adopting their terms.
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