https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/aipac-super-pacs-illinois-house-primaries-melissa-bean-laura-fine-donna-millerWith Israel’s reputation reaching record lows among Democrats, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is resorting to ever more sophisticated methods to support its preferred candidates while cloaking its own involvement.The amount of money that the premier pro-Israel organization is able to spend in elections is extraordinarily valuable to candidates who would otherwise have little chance of winning. But it now comes with a catch: If voters know the money comes from an organization advocating on behalf of Israel, it can do more harm than good.AIPAC road-tested its stealth approach in a 2024 House primary in Oregon that pitted Susheela Jayapal, the sister of Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), against physician Maxine Dexter. Dexter raised relatively little money throughout much of her campaign, then saw a last-minute deluge organized by AIPAC coupled with outside spending through super PACs, which themselves turned out to be funded by AIPAC. The timing of the donations meant that there was no meaningful transparency before voters went to the polls, and Dexter expressed a mixture of ignorance and umbrage when her opponents suggested the money actually came from AIPAC.The main super PAC in question (named 314 Action) explicitly denied that any funding came from AIPAC—a claim revealed as a flagrant lie once disclosure records finally became public. But by then, Dexter had triumphed and was on her way to Congress.Campaign staffers expect AIPAC to continue using the tactic in this year’s primaries. “In these districts where we have a progressive primary fight, you’re going to see AIPAC put out a network of shell PACs, putting money into races without putting their name on it,” said Usamah Andrabi of the progressive campaign group Justice Democrats.
>>1487229And indeed, the same pattern is emerging in three competitive House primaries in Illinois. The pieces of the puzzle can be found in the campaign disclosures of House candidates Laura Fine, a state legislator running in Illinois’s Ninth Congressional District for the open seat vacated by Rep. Jan Schakowsky on the North Side of Chicago and its northern suburbs; Donna Miller, a Cook County commissioner running in Illinois’s Second District to replace Rep. Robin Kelly on Chicago’s South Side and southern suburbs; and Melissa Bean, a banker and former member of Congress making a comeback in Illinois’s Eighth District in the western suburbs of Chicago. Bean is also running for an open seat to replace Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who like Kelly is running for Senate.Putting the pieces together, it is clear that AIPAC is again funding super PACs in order to secretly funnel money to its preferred candidates, while also coordinating donors to give to those candidates directly.Miller is running in a race that features an attempted political comeback by Jesse Jackson Jr., and Fine is squaring off against progressive Daniel Biss and Kat Abughazaleh, who became a national figure after she was indicted by the Trump Justice Department for her role in anti-ICE protests. Bean is facing Junaid Ahmed, who supports ending all military aid to Israel.A look at Miller, Fine, and Bean’s filings betrays an impressively coordinated operation at work. Sixty-five donors who previously gave to AIPAC or its affiliated super PAC United Democracy Project (UDP) have given to both Miller and Fine. These donors delivered $88,066.66 to the Fine campaign. They also contributed $119,746.33 to Miller. A whopping 237 former AIPAC/UDP donors have given to both Miller and Bean, contributing $396,288.01 to Bean and $429,083.00 to Miller. Forty-four of these donors have given to all three candidates, sending a total of $208,753.33 to them
>>1487230Several of the donations were given to the candidates on the same day, by the same donors, for the same amounts.“This coordinated effort by Trump and AIPAC donors to buy multiple congressional seats in Illinois should be alarming to anyone who cares about the integrity of our democracy,” said Matthew Fisch, campaign manager for Robert Peters, who is running against Miller in IL-02.ALL THREE OF AIPAC DONORS’ Illinois candidates are benefiting from new pop-up super PACs with anodyne-sounding names. Affordable Chicago Now! is supporting Miller, and Elect Chicago Women is supporting Fine and Bean.The super PACs, whose donors are currently secret, were both organized in January and began rolling out television ads in the last week. The spots (here’s Fine’s, here’s Miller’s, and here’s Bean’s) are generic positive biographical ads. The total ad buys appear to be in the millions of dollars. Illinois primaries will be held March 17, and the names of the funders of the super PACs will not have to be released until near or even after that date.The ads do not mention support for Israel. Neither AIPAC, UDP, nor indirectly associated PAC Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), which often supports the same candidates, have endorsed or spent money in these three races. But Jewish Insider and several others have reported that AIPAC appears to be behind the pop-up super PACs. AIPAC, United Democracy Project, and the two shell PACs did not return requests for comment.
Maybe money in elections isn’t a good idea?
>>1487234I agreeIs there any country which doesn't have money in their politics?
>>1487235I don’t know, but I wouldn’t mind being the first.
>>1487229>If voters know the money comes from an organization advocating on behalf of Israel, it can do more harm than good.What a wild thing to admit and be okay with covering up.
>>1487236If you were the first country to promise a workers paradise, where the only thing poor people had to lose was their chains, I would not want to be in that country. I wouldn't want to be in that first category
>>1487239What the fuck are you talking about?
>>1487244Sounds like gommunist horse shit.>Lose your chains>Become a slave to the collective (the government)!We should bring back slavery and put all commies into free housing (camps) and feed them their work's worth (starve them) like they deserve.
>>1487245>>1487244
>>1487245>>1487239>>1487251The jew starts spouting non-sequiturs, when the spotlight is turned on him.oy vey.. don't look at my massive blackmail operation... l-look at the gommunists!!!! you hate gommunists, right???? vote for my pedophiles!!!!!
>>1487266>you hate gommunists, right????No, not really.
>>1487266>you hate gommunists, rightI hate communists so goddamned much.Gommunism is a fill to the retard knowledge gap of what's wrong with the current monetary system.>There's poors!!>Gommumism'll fix that!>There's rich folk!!Gommunism'll fix thatIt's a snakeoil cure-all the the woes. It appeals to idiots smart enough to see the issues with the current system, but traps them in a retard fantasy so vile that people who don't want all their shit stolen by hobos and worked to death by starvation ignore the problems with the current system.Gommunism needs to be shit-canned and everyone who thinks it's a good idea needs to be run over with a truck.
>meanwhile in New Jersey, AIPAC spends $2 million only to tip the balance toward a more hardline anti-Israel candidateOops?https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/pro-israel-super-pac-losing-bet-new-jersey-democratic-primary-rcna257779
MAGA is doing to the USA, what Zionists did to Israel
>>1487245don't want israel to buy out your government? must be a heckin antisemitic communist>>1487411that's zionists doing it to both countries. MAGA are zionists first, americans second
>>1487531>MAGA are zionists first, Americans secondIf the Democrat side would just come together on the 'kicking out the browns' issue they'd have record attendance. They just won't because they made their money selling out American labor to the third world and then finally importing the third world here to undercut transportation costs.We'd be happy to vote leftist if they would just re-establish protectionism for Americans and nationalism that promotes Americans.
>>1487540>Wenon-Americans still can't vote, now matter how much MAGA propaganda tries to convince you otherwise
>>1487229>Susheela Jayapal>Pramila Jayapal >Usamah Andrabi>Raja KrishnamoorthiAnybody want to take the opportunity to signal how normal and healthy they think this is?
>>1487542I didn't say anything about voting, you troglodyte. Its a money issue and people don't appreciate being replaced by subhumans whether its a voting issue or not.
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>>1487411MAGA didn't found America you fucking moron.
>>1487540Exactly! I cannot state this enough!
>>1487286It's funny how this makes more sense even the word "communist" is replaced with "capitalist." I resent that I'm being propagandized on a budget. Billionaires always cheap out on this shit.
>>1487237Right?!>They don't want us participating in their national elections, what can we do to get around that?How much does that miss the point of US democracy and demonstrate a will to undermine the will of US citizens?So I live in a blue state. Nothing I can do will change how blue it is.I'm pretty right wing. Grew up in the woods (pop. 250 towns) I like pretty traditional man shit. I don't trust any memeber of either party at all though.That said, if I want any say, I have to vote in dem primaries.I posted this article on the off chance that it would inspire people who vote on issues, rather than party lines, to do their due dilligence, and make sure their candidate isn't secretly taking money from a special interest group they don't comment on, or even come out vocally against.I vote on support for Israel now, because it seems to be the biggest divider between politicians who work for the US and politicians who literally work for another country.PACs are dark money groups. Now the FEC rolls are full of individuals working with these dark money groups.I don't know of any groups doing work to identify individuals and associate them with PACs. I know how to follow PAC money, I don't know how to follow this, and more importantly, I'm not sure how you would follow it ahead of the reporting deadlines. If anyone else does, I'm all ears.
>>1487578It's more funny that you're retarded.But what can I do? Communism appeals to the gays, such as yourself for some reason.And all any faggot has to do is go to prison for free communism. So, I don't know why all you homos don't just all go to prison.
>>1487292Hopefully it keeps getting worse for them. If all western countries wind up like this, we might quietly coup our countries back from neoliberals and Zionists.
