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In reply to the discussion: HOW INFLUENTIAL IS AIPAC? LESS THAN BEER SELLERS, PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS, AND TOYOTA [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)39. Are you counting the contributions that AIPAC makes to candidates.
Recursion used the same standard the OP was trying to slip past us. Same standard, yet you have issues with that and pull in other expenditures. The point being made was on lobbying expenditures, the NRA does not spend much in that area, but it distorts our national agenda, just like AIPAC has people in Congress ignoring Netanyahu's efforts to completely destroy any chance at peaceful agreement between Israel and the various Palestinian groups.
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HOW INFLUENTIAL IS AIPAC? LESS THAN BEER SELLERS, PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS, AND TOYOTA [View all]
Mosby
Mar 2019
OP
Ah, I see your confusion. There are two categories of spending opensecrets tracks
Recursion
Mar 2019
#27
what did the chamber spend 1.5 billion on if not infuence, favorable legislation?
Mosby
Mar 2019
#12
Wouldn't a more accurate example of 'parsing words' be ignoring other forms of influence
LanternWaste
Mar 2019
#18
Do beer sellers, accountants, and Toyota attempt to influence US policy toward Israel?
Mr. Smith
Mar 2019
#14
Nothing. The soldier ran over her knowing that he would walk Scot free and our politicians
Blue_true
Mar 2019
#41
Progressive Democrats have a solution for America's distrust of politicians: Stop accepting corporat
Mosby
Mar 2019
#25
Highly influential if you consider the 127 billion lifetime aid delivered to Israel
Devil Child
Mar 2019
#29
The article addresses the differences in spending and organization of AIPAC vs. PACS
Mosby
Mar 2019
#37
Why are we quibbling over a dollar amount of bribes paid to corrupt politicians?
procon
Mar 2019
#38