Shocker: No Pro-Israel PAC Benjamins to Omar, Tlaib or Ocasio-Cortez
As has been previously pointed out, pro-Israel PACs, or political action committees, are no longer the brash campaign contributors of yore--having discovered that the requirement that all their activities be reported to the FEC makes those activities a little too public for comfort. In this era of d...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Washington report on Middle East affairs 2019-05, Vol.38 (3), p.72-72 |
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Zusammenfassung: | As has been previously pointed out, pro-Israel PACs, or political action committees, are no longer the brash campaign contributors of yore--having discovered that the requirement that all their activities be reported to the FEC makes those activities a little too public for comfort. In this era of dark money and massive bundling of individual contributions, these PACs are now described as being the tip of the iceberg of pro-Israel campaign contributions. Only two Arab-American PACs made contributions in the 2018 election, the AA Democratic Action Fund and Arab American Political Action Committee, for a total of $20,700--less than a third of what Roskam alone received, and more than $3 million less than pro-Israel PAC contributions last year. |
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ISSN: | 8755-4917 2163-2782 |