Well, tribalism turns out to be fine if you are Jewish. A Republican Super PAC was caught donating money to the primary election campaign of a Jewish Democrat in order to help him defeat his competitor - a young black man.
The super PAC is called Americans for Tomorrow’s Future, following in the proud tradition of nonsensically named political action committees. The connections to the GOP are apparent enough that the Center for Responsive Politics lists it as “Republican/Conservative.The Democrat candidate, Eliot Engel, is an old-school Jewish warmonger whose primary interest appears to be Israel.
The PAC, presumably due to its visible Republican ties, is not spending directly in Engel’s New York primary. Instead, it funneled $100,000 to another super PAC, called Democratic Majority for Israel, on May 27.Imagine the Yiddish howls if Chinese people were to set up a 'Democratic Majority for China' PAC.
Since cashing the Americans for Tomorrow’s Future check, DMFI has spent more than $600,000 boosting Engel and hitting Bowman on TV, and with digital ads, mailers, and paid phone banking. DMFI has not spent money on any other race since taking money from the GOP operation.Israel is the main issue for Engel's donors:
Pro-Israel groups have contributed more than $1.3 million to Engel over the course of his career. NORPAC, another pro-Israel PAC, is Engel’s second largest contributor this cycle, after the Pro-Israel America PAC, and has given his campaigns $132,509 throughout his career.Welcome to the world of dark money:
Engel is on the receiving end of nearly $1 million of outside big money and counting, including funding from two other dark-money groups that can’t be traced. One group is called Avacy Initiatives Inc., and has reported spending roughly $120,000 so far to boost Engel, using the firm Red Mountain Media LLC, which has left precious little digital footprint.
The only other spending that dark-money group has done was in support of Teresa Leger Fernandez, who recently won a New Mexico congressional primary against Valerie Plame, who came under fire for a series of anti-Semitic Twitter posts.
Another dark-money group, Perise Practical Inc., has spent $180,000 in support of Engel. It also spent on behalf of Leger Fernandez, and also uses Red Mountain Media LLC for its spending. Both groups have the same treasurer on their founding documents, David Krone, the former chief of staff to former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.Remember, being tribal and identifying with your European history is terrible. Jordan Peterson and a host of other people repeatedly hammer that home.
There appears, however, to be a highly tribal group that never gets called out for ethnic nepotism. They are so interested in their own causes/interests that they will fund the alleged opposition party.
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