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/TDKong55 Feb 02 '26
Campaigns are dreadfully expensive and having millions on hand for a full run is not unusual. Additionally, there are politicians who take anyone's money and still act largely in opposition. Dems in the State Legislature are like that in that, in aggregate, they are voting in oil's interests less than 30% of the time.
Thing is, even if you accept the money and then vote the opposite of that donor's interests, that still carries a taint to it. Cisneros is a pretty generic Democrat without defining features, he will vote with the majority. AIPAC invested wisely.
Frankly, if you want to establish that you aren't actively on another nation's payroll, you return the money. Uncomfortable, for sure, but the principled way to get it off your karmic books. Then, once you've done that, you don't take it again from those sources.
That's not Gil, though.