AIPAC vs. Jamaal Bowman: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Pro-Israel Lobby Challenge to "The Squad"

[Uncle Joe]

Tuesday is the culmination of the most expensive primary race in U.S. history in New York’s 16th Congressional District. Democratic Congressmember Jamaal Bowman, a former Bronx middle school principal and one of the first to call for a ceasefire in Gaza in October, is being challenged by a former corporate executive, George Latimer, who was encouraged to run by the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC. Outside spending in the race has topped $23 million, much of it from pro-Israel groups like AIPAC. Bowman, a recent guest on Democracy Now!, is a member of the progressive “Squad” in Congress, a coalition of congressional representatives that includes New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who campaigned for Bowman at a reelection rally in New York City Saturday, and Massachusetts’s Ayanna Pressley. Bowman “needs to be decisively returned” to Congress, says Pressley, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss the final push to get out the vote for Bowman and characterizes him as the “pro-peace, pro-humanity, pro-justice candidate.”

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[JohnSJ]

1. Bowman and his surrogates have no one to blame except Bowman

From his false statements about the Oct 7 attacks, to his votes against the infrastructure, raising the debt limit, etc., that has nothing to do with AIPAC, but blame it on that “Jewish money”, that’s always a good target for someone’s personal failures, as though people can’t see with their own eyes. Same excuse Nina Turner gave for her loss against Brown, it was that “evil money”

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. Didn't Katie Porter use the same excuse when she lost to Schiff? NT

[JohnSJ]

4. I don't know, but I know Nina Turner did

[Cha]

11. Yes.

[Oopsie Daisy]

12. Yes, I believe so.

It was a disgusting and shameful thing to do.

[Uncle Joe]

3. "Money" is incapable of being evil, or religious, it's just free speech

[czarjak]

10. The way Ann Coulter likes it.

Who'll be lynched first, Clarance? You're the puppet!

[sheshe2]

15. WTAF!? 😳

You are comparing Latimer, a good solid Democrat, to Thomas?

I can’t even.

[Uncle Joe]

16. The subject was excessive money in politics.

Do you believe that Citizens United was a good or sound decision?

Do you believe that C.U. is good for our democracy?

[sheshe2]

17. The subject as I see it...

Is your comparing Latimer to Thomas. That suggestion implies Latimer is pocketing boatloads of cash like Thomas did. Spin it as you wish, that is what you and apparently DN is saying.

[Uncle Joe]

18. I can't help the way you see things. The post that you replied to clearly states

'""Money" is incapable of being evil, or religious, it's just free speech"

Free speech being a direct reference to how the Supreme Court decided Citizens United, and Clarence Thomas was one of those justices that made the decision to elevate money above actual speech.

I thought you were against Citizens United and AIPAC funds election denying Republicans, did you know that?

The way I see it, funding from the Oligarchic financial backers of people that tried and are trying to overthrow the United States government and turn us into a dictatorship under the cult of *rump is a major negative...but that's just my perception.

[sheshe2]

19. "I can't help the way you see things. The post that you replied to clearly states:"

'""Money" is incapable of being evil, or religious, it's just free speech"

Then you added a picture of traitor Thomas with his cronies, that implies Latimer is just like Thomas.

You never sourced a link to the quote and picture, please do so. I would be curious to read exactly what all was implied. Was it just an article about Thomas himself and DN implied that Latimer is just like Thomas?

[Uncle Joe]

20. The quote was mine in response to a post about "evil money" and "Jewish money"

and Thomas is the most corrupted Justice insofar as "presents" over 4 million dollars worth from oligarchs.

That pic is easily identifiable, it's Thomas and Harlan Crowe; an oligarch if you didn't know that.

Neither my post which you responded to nor the post that I was responding to even mentioned Bowman's primary opponent.

You would've known that if you just scrolled up and read that post.

So if you're not willing to look, don't blame me on how you see things.

[sheshe2]

21. It's in your OP.

20. The quote was mine in response to a post about "evil money" and "Jewish money"

“Evil Money” and “Jewish money” in the same sentence.

and Thomas is the most corrupted Justice insofar as "presents" over 4 million dollars worth from oligarchs.

I know exactly what Thomas is, yet your quote and image is telling when your Op is a lot about Latimer.

That pic is easily identifiable, it's Thomas and Harlan Crowe; an oligarch if you didn't know that.

I do, see above.

Neither my post which you responded to nor the post that I was responding to even mentioned Bowman's primary opponent.

Your Op does just that.

You would've known that if you just scrolled up and read that post.

I read everything.

So if you're not willing to look, don't blame me on how you see things.

I did, dear Uncle Joe.

[Uncle Joe]

22. You didn't respond to the OP, you responded to that post which was a post in response to another. Dear sheshe. n/t

[sheshe2]

23. Your Op like any other is the key to the comments.

It is part of what the thread is based on.

Night night.

[Uncle Joe]

24. Comments being related to or "part of" is not "the OP" anymore than weather is related to climate.

Conflating peoples posts as the OP even less so.

If you have something to say about the OP say it, if you have something to say about an individual sub-thread conversation, say that as well but don't conflate the two.

Night night

[Cheezoholic]

6. This is more than that, this is a festering cut in the party for a decade now and the first step is to get big money

the hell out of politics. There IS a new young and more progressive group of Democrats coming up in our party and they are going to challenge the old money Democrats, like it or not. I'm not implying "Jewish" money here so don't go there, there are plenty of corporate Democrats to go around and there is and has been a movement within the party to reform, rightfully so, the insane amounts of cash BOTH parties spend on elections. It's personally disgusting to me.

The racist mudslinging AND gross amounts of money in this primary are embarrassing to me as a Democrat. It is a sign of whats to come after Nov. in our party. I'm afraid that if it wasn't for the fear of a fascist takeover right now this divide in the party would be much more prominent right now. Once we win in Nov., and I believe we will win handily, it's going to take some powerful compromising and unifying to hold our party together. We are not immune to the kind of division that destroyed the other side in the last 8 years (division, not radical fascist ideals). I could even see a scenario where a split in our party fills a massive vacuum that's being created by TSF and his little coup brigade.

Once again I'm not talking about Gaza here and I'm not implying "Jewish" money in any way shape or form. I am saying is all the fucking money poured into our insane gross capitalistic style of electioneering has to go or it will devour us all from the inside.

Respect

[lapucelle]

5. "The Many"...

AOC takes the stage after Bernie Sanders's speech at the star-studded GOTV Rally for Jamaal Bowman in the Bronx, Saturday, June 22.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Why was this event not held in Bowman's congressional district?

https://politicalwire.com/2024/06/22/quote-of-the-day-3869/

Quote of the Day

June 22, 2024 at 4:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 172 Comments

“We’re gonna show fucking AIPAC the motherfucking power of the South Bronx.”

— Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), at a rally, apparently not knowing his congressional district doesn’t include the South Bronx.

[lapucelle]

9. It's pretty sad. The self-proclaimed "hip hop congressman" did not even realize

that he wasn't in the South Bronx and that he doesn't represent the South Bronx. Ritchie Torres does.

[Oopsie Daisy]

13. It looks like a very small crowd. Very small. I wonder why.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Look at Bowman's voting record

There are some good reasons why Bowman is NOT doing well

Link to tweet

[Oopsie Daisy]

14. You couldn't be any clearer than that!! That spells it out in an easy-to-understand way *

* and it's clear to me that his voting record will come back to bite him in the rear end.

[sheshe2]

25. It is tonight!

MSNBC just said he is expect to loose. Sad.