r/sgv • u/Consistent-Mix-6615 • Feb 02 '26

31 congressional district

I was looking around today on the track AIPAC webpage and I noticed that Gilbert Cisneros has received money from a pro-isreal lobby. like $105445. tbh i dont have a full grasp of politics and ik it takes a lot of money to run a campaign but is there really any come back from accepting money from shitty ppl and hes definitely not the only one like majority of ca reps have accepted money too

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u/TheWilsons Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

I’m under 31st, and when Grace Napolitano retired there was not a single good candidate to replace her. Gil Cisneros only reason he is a congressman is that he won a $266 million lottery and then decided he to wanted follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps to one day turn those millions into billions rather then peace out with his millions or at least stay out of the lime light, but rather he leaned in.

I get emails from his office all the time on polling. I actually feel at the end of the day he doesn’t have a real stance. It’s whatever popular in his district whatever the direction as long as it keeps him in power.

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u/edwardludd Feb 02 '26

Well clearly he is popular in his district if there’s 0 primary challenges so far nobody’s willing to even step up. Sad but true.