(INFURIATING) UPDATE: After AIPAC spent nearly $2 million in dark-money
attacks on progressive congressional candidate Jessica Cisneros in TX-28,
she came up 289 votes short last night against Henry Cuellar -- the only
anti-choice Democrat in the House.
Dark money groups like AIPAC have spent millions of dollars on
misinformation ads to take down progressive Democratic candidates.
Democratic leadership has yet to condemn this anti-democratic meddling in
our primaries.
[ [link removed] ]Sign our coalition petition to Nancy Pelosi and other House Democratic
leaders: Take a stand and make clear that anyone who is part of corporate
dark-money misinformation ads are persona non grata with Democrats in
Congress and the DCCC. Sign here.
-- The PCCC Team
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MSNBC's Chris Hayes calls out dark money group's "disingenuous attack" on
progressive candidates.
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dark-money misinformation ads.
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[ [link removed] ]WATCH: Chris Hayes on super PACs attacking progressive candidates.
[ [link removed] ]Turn on images to see the Intercept headline: SUMMER LEE FACES AIPAC
SPENDING ONSLAUGHT IN FINAL DAYS OF PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY.
MSNBC's Chris Hayes is [ [link removed] ]calling out AIPAC and other corporate-funded
groups spending millions on misinformation campaigns against progressive
candidates like Summer Lee and Jessica Cisneros:
"They launched a disingenuous attack, claiming Lee is not a real Democrat.
But they don't care who a real Democrat is....They endorsed over 100
Republican candidates who voted to overturn the 2020 election results
after the insurrection."
We have been calling out these dark-money smear campaigns for weeks -- and
we're working to end them. Roll Call reports: "The Progressive Change
Campaign Committee is calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to denounce what it
called misinformation campaigns funded by AIPAC, cryptocurrency PACS, and
the pharmaceutical industry."
[ [link removed] ]Sign our new coalition petition to Nancy Pelosi and other House
Democratic leaders: Take a stand and make clear that anyone who is part of
corporate dark-money misinformation ads are persona non grata with
Democrats in Congress and the DCCC. Sign here.
NBC News quotes the PCCC on the stakes: "The Democratic Party is going to
lose in 2022 and beyond if the establishment remains silent as corporate
interests try to throttle dynamic young leaders and prop up those most
likely to oppose a popular agenda."
The Guardian reports that AIPAC's dark-money super PAC "has also spent
$1.2m to protect the Texas Democratic congressman, Henry Cuellar, who
faces a run-off later next week against Jessica Cisneros, a 28-year-old
immigration lawyer who is endorsed by members of the Squad." Cuellar is
the last anti-choice Democrat in the House, and he is under FBI
investigation!
These groups don't run ads on the issues they purport to care about --
such as Israel, low corporate taxes, and slashing business regulations.
Instead, they falsely accuse popular progressive candidates of being bad
Democrats. This is a rich accusation from corporate-funded groups like
AIPAC that "went Full Trump" and endorsed over 30 pro-insurrection
Republican members of Congress.
Here's Chris Hayes in his segment this week ([ [link removed] ]You can watch here, and
donate to our work fighting back.):
"But there's also something else I find insidious about this particular
use of big money. The issue they care about is whether the US is strong
and unflinching in its support of Israel. But here's the thing, crucially:
that is not the issue that this PAC is engaging in when it gets involved
in these races. They recognize Israel is not the top issue for the voters
and Pennsylvania's 12th district. So what they did instead was launch an
almost comically disingenuous attack, claiming Lee is not a real Democrat.
So here's this group you've never heard of, and they're saying, like,
'Summer Lee is bad because she's not a real Democrat. We want authentic
Democrats.' But they don't care who a real Democrat is. Their spokesperson
was exceedingly clear about their motivations in a recent statement to the
Washington Post, saying "Our goal is to build the biggest bipartisan
coalition in Congress for the US Israel relationship." Again, that's their
stated goal. That's what they care about. They care about that, over
everything else, to the point where they have endorsed over 100 Republican
candidates who voted to overturn the 2020 election results after the
insurrection.
But disingenuous as they are, their misinformation campaigns have a
devastating impact. Summer Lee had a 25-point lead just weeks before the
primary this past Tuesday. Then, a dark-money campaign spent millions
spreading misinformation and turned the race into a nail-biter. Two
progressives in North Carolina lost races after corporate dark money
groups spent $7 million on misinformation campaigns against them.
Many Democratic leaders, consultants, and agencies have cozy relationships
with the groups spending these millions of dollars of dark money trying to
stop progressive candidates.
Speaker Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders need to take a stand and
make clear that anyone who is part of these corporate dark-money
misinformation ads are persona non grata with Democrats in Congress and
the DCCC.
[ [link removed] ]Sign our petition to Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders here.
Our government relations team -- P Street, the progressive alternative to
K Street -- will share your support for this with Speaker Pelosi and other
House Democratic leaders, the media, and key allies in Congress.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- The PCCC Team ([ [link removed] ]@BoldProgressive)
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