Saikat Chakrabarti
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And so you keep seeing Democrats who will come out and say they're for this stuff.
But even when Democrats have power, somehow none of it gets done.
And that's because the donors still control that place.
You know, they don't want to actually piss off their donors.
But, you know, in this race, like we are saying, you know, I mentioned State Senator Wiener has continued to take money.
He said he's not going to take any APAC money, by the way, but he's continued to take money from APAC board members, from APAC leaders.
But we also just saw Super PAC come in in the last week that started putting about a half million dollars that as far as we can tell, again, this is based on reporting, is a front group for APAC.
And it's spending on behalf of my other opponent, on behalf of Connie Chan, who, you know, as far as I can tell, is actually decent on this.
issues.
She was for, you know, the offensive weapons, but not defensive weapons thing.
But she managed to move on that position.
Yeah, good.
yeah that that was her position i will say she moved on it again like because we're in an election like i managed to move both my opponents on on this issue but this is the thing right like the the reason apac spends all this money is they want to have these malleable candidates that they know are movable that they know that they can actually you know influence at the end of the day i mean supervisor chan's been uh endorsed by nancy pelosi in the race by adam schiff
and so she's going in as part of the head establishment and the thing is like aipac knows that i am actually strong in this issue i mean i started just as democrats right like i helped rashida talib and ilhan omar get elected i've been fighting them for years and so their main goal is to make sure i don't win this seat so they're trying to spend everything they can right now to keep me out of the top two tomorrow to make sure that i don't go on into general both because
They know that I actually care about this issue and I'm going to fight them on it.
But also they know that I'm the best one to actually beat Scott Wiener.
Like we already have a general election polling that we did where Scott Wiener are basically in a dead heat.
We're completely tied up.
So they're doing whatever they can to keep me out.
But this is the thing.