'Dangerous Precedent': Record AIPAC Spending Helps George Latimer Defeat Jamaal Bowman | Common Dreams
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"Jamaal and our movement were such a threat to right-wing power, to GOP megadonors, and to AIPAC's influence in Congress that they had to spend $15 million to defeat us," said one progressive organizer.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16955018

“Jamaal and our movement were such a threat to right-wing power, to GOP megadonors, and to AIPAC’s influence in Congress that they had to spend $15 million to defeat us,” said one progressive organizer.

  • exanime@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    Precedent? I don’t even know why they bother when they can simply legally and openly bribe whomever wins anyway

    • Shyfer@ttrpg.network
      3·
      3 days ago

      Right? I was about to say, this can’t be the first politician AIPAC has bought and placed into our government.