BRAVO AISHA WAHAB!
SHE DEFEATED AIPAC = ANTI-DEMOCRACY AND AN AIPAC FUNDED
SUPER PAC!
ALWAYS BE SUSPICIOUS WHEN AIPAC = ANTI-DEMOCRACY TRIES
TO BUY ELECTIONS AND OWN A CANDIDATE!
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| ‘Organized People Won’: Aisha Wahab Defeats Millions in AIPAC Spending to Win US House Race |
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| Progressive California state Sen. Aisha Wahab has won a special election to serve the remainder of disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s term in the US Congress, defeating a centrist Democrat backed by millions of dollars in AIPAC spending.
“This victory belongs to the voters who made clear that our district cannot be bought,” Wahab said in response to news of her victory, which came some 48 hours after election day. “Through one of the ugliest, most expensive elections we’ve ever seen, we never took the bait or went negative. We stayed focused on the people, and I will fight for this district that raised me.”
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Our Revolution, a progressive advocacy organization that backed Wahab, called her win “a national model for how progressives can defeat big-money outside groups and build a Democratic Party rooted in working people.” The United Democracy Project, AIPAC’s super PAC, spent $2.5 million on the contest in an effort to boost Hernandez. BOLD America, a separate super PAC that has received funding from AIPAC, also threw millions of dollars behind Hernandez. By contrast, The American Prospect reported that Wahab’s outside support came “from the state’s leading labor organization, from the leadership PAC of Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and from the PAC for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.” |
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