Are you counting the contributions that AIPAC makes to candidates.
Recursion used the same standard the OP was trying to slip past us. Same standard, yet you have issues with that and pull in other expenditures. The point being made was on lobbying expenditures, the NRA does not spend much in that area, but it distorts our national agenda, just like AIPAC has people in Congress ignoring Netanyahu's efforts to completely destroy any chance at peaceful agreement between Israel and the various Palestinian groups.
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