John,
Last month, a story broke that the Philadelphia-based far-right billionaire, Jeff Yass, had set up a $20 million dollar bank account to aid a Republican candidate in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race of his choosing.
Congressman Dwight Evans (left) and far-right super donor Jeff Yass (right) First, let me tell you about Jeff Yass.
Yass is the richest man in Pennsylvania and has used his fortune to back a plethora of right-wing causes. One of his favorite pet projects is the Club for Growth, a conservative organization instrumental in funding the campaigns of January 6th accomplices Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO).
On top of this, Yass donated to multiple political action committees backing Matt Gurtler, a Georgia Republican who was photographed in 2020 with a known neo-Nazi and KKK member. When confronted by the press about the photo, Gurtler stated, it’s “straightforward.”
Here’s what my team found when looking through Dwight Evans' big donors: Yass’s contributions to Evan’s PA House of Representatives Campaign Why did Evans accept money from Yass? Why would Yass, a far-right activist, go out of his way to fund a prominent Philadelphia Democrat? The answer lies in the multi-decade right-wing operation to defund and dismantle America’s public school system, of which Yass is a major player.
Back in 1998, the Philadelphia school district, the NAACP, and countless other coalitions of Philadelphians sued then Republican Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge.
They found the state’s funding model to be racially discriminatory, calculating that the poorest school districts received significantly less than wealthier and whiter school districts. So what did Evans, the chair of the PA House Appropriations Committee at the time, do when he heard about this civil rights lawsuit?
Evans turned his back on PA families and sided with the Republican governor laying the foundation for Philadelphia’s charter school system, the brainchild of arch-conservatives obsessed with defunding public education, which to this day continues to drain much needed resources from Philly’s struggling public schools.
Evans' strategy is simple- feint to the left while running for office and then dart to the right once elected. It’s because of this that donors like Yass, dead-set on destroying our public school system, are writing big checks to a Democrat like Evans. America's bluest congressional seat: currently represented by a Manchin esque right-wing Democrat PA-03 is rated by the Cook political report as the bluest district in America. We deserve better than being a cog in the right’s operation to defund our public schools. We deserve better than someone willing to accept money from ghouls like Jeff Yass.
I refuse to make deals with the devil to fund my campaign.
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Alexandra Hunt Candidate PA-03 MPH, MS, ACRP-CP
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