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Man, Paul Vallas is just doubling-down and committed to proving everyone who called him a “closet-Republican” correct
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Luis Klein
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Luis Klein
@Sweet_Lou86
Chicago sports and politics. Also the occasional Simpsons reference. Thoughts are my own, etc. etc. etc.
Chicago, IL Katılım Şubat 2018
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Only 13% of dems (and 21% of indies) still have a favorable opinion of Israel. Good luck with your run!
Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom
I’ve only been a Democrat for 10 months. Maybe I’ll run for President as a Democrat if only to have ONE Democratic candidate who proudly calls himself a Zionist, who’s proudly pro-Israel, who proudly supports @AIPAC (an organization dedicated to strengthening American/Israeli relations), and who understands that the ONLY obstacle to peace in the Middle East has always been Arab/Muslim refusal to accept the state of Israel. I mean, the way things are going with the Democratic Party these days, I’m sure I’d own that pro-Israel lane.
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@jake____lewis @trackcaseyk And will be weaponized by AIPAC themselves too. They’re not above trying to get their stink on you if they think it’ll hurt you
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This is one of the big lessons coming out of IL09 that progressives nationwide can learn from: do not meet with or talk to AIPAC, even if it's in an effort to keep them out of your race.
Any interaction you have with AIPAC can and will be weaponized against you down the line.
Matthew Eadie@mattheweadie22
Daniel Biss on @BulwarkOnline today said meeting with AIPAC early in the #IL09 campaign was a "dumb idea" and recommends Dems don't do so going forward "I would recommend that candidates not meet with them because I don't think they can be trusted to operate in good faith"
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@Kid_Cryptos @EmmaRJanssen His campaign is a cautionary tale of the limits of money if there’s no compelling message behind it. 2/2
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@Kid_Cryptos @EmmaRJanssen He’s been raising for this race his entire career and had a war chest of almost $20M in his official campaign accountwhen it started. Most of the PAC money spent on his behalf was attacking Stratton. 1/2
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okay, bet.
(too many super PACs were involved to include them all here, but check my reporting for more info if you want to know issue funders)
Walter@culturecanceler
I want one of you spreadsheet nerds to rank candidates in Illinois by collective dollar spent per vote earned incl issue funders
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@gnawbone_ @north0fnorth Simple - did you move to the area for the sole purpose of running for the seat? Then you might be a carpetbagger
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@north0fnorth honestly what even is a carpetbagger in a district this gerrymandered
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as a city resident i’m really not happy about this, but due to gerrymandering il-09 is really a suburban district that happens to include some of the north side rather than a city district that crosses into the suburbs. there’s ~225k city residents & 515k suburbanites
herman milly rock@Eyoyism
the kat abughazaleh carpetbagger people make me feel crazy because she lives in the city, i would feel much more represented by someone who actually lives in chicago vs someone from out in the suburbs even if they’re technically in my district
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Abughazaleh is getting crushed in the Cook and Lake County suburbs.
Evidence that Mamdani style leftism only has purchase in deep-blue cities and college towns.
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@__Siffa @katewillett @ostonox They were boosting her to help Laura Fine. They aren’t actually cool if Bushra won. You know that, right?
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Unless Ezra Andres-Tysch can produce irrefutable evidence of the claim they just made this DNC paid wrecker needs to be ejected from DSA.
Think whatever you want about whether Bushra should have dropped out, don’t lie on an a public platform in an attempt to destroy a comrade.
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@voshmosh @OrganizerMemes So do you believe the person who the claim is actually about, or the person who’s not even from the state where the supposedly happened?
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Anon from someone in the know
clay vessel@ShabanaMir1
Glad someone asked the question at last! NO! Kat Abughazaleh did NOT reach out to #Bushra Amiwala or to Mike Simmons, the local progressives. Kat Abughazaleh made NO EFFORT to consolidate the "left" vote. But how would folks know? No one harassed KAT with the question! 🧵
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@truekino69420 @LeftyWinter AOC built deep relationships with community and local political organizations across the district during her campaign. She also lived in the district before announcing which helps with those things
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@LeftyWinter By these metrics she would not have endorsed herself in 2018 lol
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Pro-tip: the fastest way to turn voters off of your candidate is telling voters that your candidate is entitled to their votes.
This tweet is about Kat’s terminally online supporters
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@benadrylnchill @Eyoyism They’re welcome to move and run. They’re not entitled to people’s votes and voters are free to judge them by whatever metric they want. I don’t vote for judges who were states attorneys. Is that fair? Doesn’t matter. It’s my decision. That’s democracy!
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the kat abughazaleh carpetbagger people make me feel crazy because she lives in the city, i would feel much more represented by someone who actually lives in chicago vs someone from out in the suburbs even if they’re technically in my district
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@egwicks this was in reference to people in the city i know complaining idk how suburbanites feel
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@mcmill2008 @Eyoyism Also looking at how Kat performed in the city, translate that to a district that’s 60-40 city as opposed to 60-40 suburbs… and yea I think she could have won
GIF
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@secondcityy @Eyoyism Also she’d only been in Streeterville for less than a year before she announced her run for Congress, which btw she did while still living in Streeterville
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@Eyoyism this makes no sense because biss is a longtime resident of the district which you are dismissing in favor of kat moving up from streeterville?
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like she was in streeterville trying to represent lakeview… u are two sides of the same coin and now you have biss, from evanston
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@kenvogel So I don’t think it’s that surprising that DEM voters don’t like AIPAC cause dems have been demonizing PACs and outside spending for a decade. What’s more surprising is how many Dem primary voters even know who AIPAC are in order to form an opinion. Voters are very highly engaged
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A poll by Daniel Biss's campaign found 51% of Dem voters viewed AIPAC unfavorably vs 17% favorably in the Illinois district where he was running.
So, by the time AIPAC started spending against him, he had decided to make the group a villain.
It worked. nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/…
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@__Siffa @katewillett @ostonox If you think AIPAC was running those ads to help her, I got beach front property in Idaho to sell you
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@katewillett @ostonox Maybe I’m ignorant here, but are we really inclined to believe the candidate that stayed in the race after AIPAC was literally funding ads for her?
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@FjordFjairlane @AlexGodofsky I see the first statement as a different way of saying exactly this
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@AlexGodofsky I don't understand why people aren't talking about the other obvious angle: she kept silent because she assumed nobody would believe her and she'd find herself in greater danger if she spoke out
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I'm seeing "She kept her silence to protect the movement" get a kind of uncomfortably neutral-to-positive gloss.
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@erichol59443359 @inboundike @peterawolf Democratic primary voters in Red areas are the most hardened of voters. They’re under constant siege and that pushes them left. Look at Delia’s first race and you’ll see that she won DuPage County by a larger margin than she won in Cook because of the same dynamic
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@inboundike @peterawolf Except it was pretty decent turnout there--8,000 votes. Why it was so different from the Lake county portion of the district I don't understand.
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Telling how none of these Abughazaleh postmortems is willing to acknowledge the main reason behind her loss (repeated by countless actual IL-09 voters On Here): that she was a carpetbagger with no ties to the district, and more than a supermajority of voters didn't like that.
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@KaoticLeftist They literally called him a “dangerous detractor” and spent more money against him than Kat. They have to convince their donors that was money well spent so they’re going with “well it could’ve been worse”
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The fact that AIPAC doesn’t consider Daniel Biss an enemy is a red flag.
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