If the NRA endorses a Democrat, would that make you less likely to vote for that Democrat in a primary? How about the Susan B Anthony anti-Choice mess? Someday— hopefully very soon— support from AIPAC and the rest of the GOP-financed pro-genocide lobby will be the kiss of death for candidates in Democratic primaries. Right now there are many conservative Democrats who have been endorsed and funded by AIPAC and DMFI, the two most virulent of the pro-genocide operations. AIPAC endorsed the Democrat running in my own district, Laura Friedman, a signal to progressives like me to not vote for her. Other California Dems AIPAC and/or DMFI have formally endorsed include Gil Cisneros, Luz Rivas and Rudy Salas. If genocide is important to you, don’t vote for any of them. If genocide’s not important to you… well, I don’t want to use profanity but the 4 word expression I have in mind ends with “and die.”
The worst of the store-bought genocide candidates right now are George Latimer and Wesley Bell, the two right-of-center Dems who are trying to help AIPAC beat, respectively, progressive incumbents Jamaal Bowman (NY) and Cori Bush (MO). The pro-genocide lobby— and their crypto-criminal allies— have dumped $15 million into their jihad against Bowman and about $1.5 million (so far) against Bush. And that doesn’t even count the money bundled for them!
But other DCCC-AIPAC-DMFI candidates include April Delaney (MD), Sarah Elfreth (MD), Monica Tranel (MT), Adam Frisch (CO), Tony Vargas (NE), Maxine Dexter (OR), Janelle Bynum (OR), Janelle Stelson (PA). [Yesterday, genocide shill Eileen Filler-Corn came in a distant 4th in Virginia.] You may want to vote for some of these characters because, they’re “better than the Republican,” but just keep it in your mind, you’re voting for a pro-genocide candidate. Can you think of something worse than that? Candidates who accept money from AIPAC, DMFI and other pro-genocide groups should be looked at the same way candidates who take money from pro-gun and anti-Choice groups are looked at.
Is there anything you can do about it? Of course. Don’t contribute to any candidates who take money from AIPAC or any of the other pro-genocide groups. Be very careful when someone is backed by the DCCC, which is still an AIPAC-adjacent organization. And contribute what you can to the kinds of candidates who have rejected genocide and rejected AIPAC, like these men and women.
Yesterday, David Dayen noted that 4 former (revolving door) executive directors of the DCCC work for firms that are being paid by the genocidal maniacs to defeat House Dems. He began by reminding his readers that in 2019, DCCC chair Cheri Bustos instituted a rule: “Any vendor—a consultant, media placement firm, pollster, or provider of services to campaigns—who worked for a challenger to an incumbent House Democrat would be barred from working for the DCCC, and the DCCC would block them from an approved vendor list used to recommend firms to other campaigns… [Today] top officials from when the DCCC had either a formal or informal policy of banning campaign firms that work for primary challengers now help run firms that are working for primary challengers.”
Some of the worst of the DCCC scumbags, like Lucinda Guinn, John Lapp, Jon Vogel and Tim Persico own and run consulting firms that are working for AIPAC to defeat Bowman and Bush. “This,” wrote Dayen, “was the kind of behavior that in previous years triggered a full ban on working with the DCCC or its frontline campaigns… In other contexts, vendors to the DCCC would shy away from working for entities that were openly challenging Democratic incumbents. The committee has not announced any vendor changes this year as a result of these firms working for primary challengers. A request for comment to the DCCC did not yield a response. These firms are also taking money from the biggest source of Republican donor funds in Democratic races. Nearly half of all AIPAC donors giving directly to Democratic candidates like Latimer and Bell have some previous history of funding Republicans. UDP’s base of donors, primarily from Wall Street, have Republican donation histories as well, and $10.5 million of its war chest comes from AIPAC. ‘It is shameless and unsurprising that the same leaders of the DCCC who created a blacklist to keep progressives out of Congress are now cashing checks from AIPAC’s Republican megadonors to run right-wing primaries against progressive incumbents,’ said Usamah Andrabi, communications director for Justice Democrats, one of the remaining campaign organizations working for progressives. ‘As always, the Democratic establishment makes clear that their own rules don't apply to them, only to working-class people who want a voice in our democracy.’”