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Who Really Runs Politics: Understanding Super PACs · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about, you know, what this political
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  Speaker 2: funding situation really is and who's really moving a needle
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  Speaker 2: because they put they put thirty million on you, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was taken aback by that. I was telling the
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  Speaker 1: guys right before the shows they have an ad that's
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  Speaker 1: attacking to more bollmen. I'm like, that's the friend of
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: So all right, they put they put they put thirty
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  Speaker 2: million on you. So what does this mean? Break this
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  Speaker 2: down and layman term for the people to understand. You know,
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  Speaker 2: how big money is really influencing elections.
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  Speaker 3: No, absolutely, especially in congressional elections. So one quick point
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  Speaker 3: of clarification, the election is not weeks away, it's actually
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  Speaker 3: days away. So the first day of early voting is
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  Speaker 3: this Saturday. So that's Saturday, June fifteenth, literally six days away,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're treating the first day of early voting
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  Speaker 3: as as election day. So please get out there and
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  Speaker 3: vote everyone who's watching. So, when you run for office
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  Speaker 3: at any level, you got to raise money to run
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  Speaker 3: your campaign. So that money goes towards paying staff, it
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  Speaker 3: goes towards getting flyers and palm cards, posters, banners, mailers
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  Speaker 3: to people's homes, advertisement, it goes to a variety of things.
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  Speaker 3: When you run for Congress, the most that someone can
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  Speaker 3: donate to your campaign it's thirty three hundred dollars for
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  Speaker 3: the primary and another thirty three hundred for the general
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  Speaker 3: if you win the primary. But there are organizations that
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  Speaker 3: work outside of your campaign that are called super packs
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  Speaker 3: and cfors. Those c fours can raise an unlimited amount
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  Speaker 3: of money. They do not have to publicly disclose who
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  Speaker 3: gives them money, and then they can operate on the
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  Speaker 3: campaign's behalf and or give that money to super packs,
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  Speaker 3: which operate on the campaign's behalf. So in my race,
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  Speaker 3: when you talk about that thirty million dollar number, most
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  Speaker 3: of that is coming from the C four and the
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  Speaker 3: superpack that is being spent on behalf of the person
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  Speaker 3: who is running against me. That is not his campaign money.
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  Speaker 3: His campaign money can be anywhere from like a couple
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  Speaker 3: million dollars most likely, right, usually a couple million dollars,
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  Speaker 3: and he spends that for flyers and mailers and ads.
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  Speaker 3: But then if you have a C four or superpack
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  Speaker 3: that is well endowed, they can spend money on his behalf,
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  Speaker 3: which is what's happening in this race. Most of that
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  Speaker 3: thirty million is happening from the superpack side of it.
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  Speaker 3: And this is more money than they have ever spent
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  Speaker 3: in their history. And I'm speaking specifically about the group
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  Speaker 3: A PAC.
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  Speaker 2: So, okay, so let's get let's get straight to the point.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he said today though, so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Nate, So a pack, Yes, who is a pack?
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  Speaker 2: For the audience, and why would a pack spend thirty
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  Speaker 2: million allegedly, why would APEX spend thirty million dollars to
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  Speaker 2: defeat Jamaal Bowman?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so APAC stands for and I want to get
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  Speaker 3: this right. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, they are
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  Speaker 3: one issue organization Israel. They support the State of Israel,
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  Speaker 3: and their lobbying in Congress goes to ensure that Israel
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  Speaker 3: continues to receive three point eight billion dollars a year
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  Speaker 3: in military funding and whatever additional billions or money they
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  Speaker 3: need for whatever it is that they want to do.
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  Speaker 3: That's who APAC is. They are targeting me and spending
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  Speaker 3: so much money against me because I called for a
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  Speaker 3: permanent ceasefire in Gaza and because I'm calling out and
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  Speaker 3: fighting to end the genocide and the famine that is
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  Speaker 3: happening in Gaza. They are not used to members of
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  Speaker 3: Congress criticizing Israel or speaking up against APAK. Now that
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  Speaker 3: they have members of Congress doing that, they are targeting
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  Speaker 3: those members of Congress and targeting other people around the country.
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  Speaker 3: So they don't just fund congressional races, they fund state races,
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  Speaker 3: county races, local races, et cetera. They've been around for
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  Speaker 3: sixty years advocating for Israel and Israel only, and they've
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  Speaker 3: pledged to spend one hundred million dollars this election cycle.
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  Speaker 3: But the majority of that going towards your boy, Congressman Bowmen.
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  Speaker 4: Of what they're going to know, they're willingending you, which
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  Speaker 4: is and I mean when we talk about wealth and
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  Speaker 4: will have a conversation with that, I'm sure, But we
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  Speaker 4: don't have super PACs. And that's something that we've had
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  Speaker 4: plenty of conversations about even educating people on what they are,
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  Speaker 4: how to form them, and how to figure out what
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  Speaker 4: exactly they'll be for. Right, we need to know the
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  Speaker 4: things that we want.
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  Speaker 1: When you hear those type of numbers, thirty million, which
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of money to be spending on the
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  Speaker 1: capital on a local well, we could not a local election,
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  Speaker 1: but a regional election, right, right, how do you combat that?
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  Speaker 3: Is it? Hey?
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  Speaker 1: I need to raise more. We have to become strategic
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  Speaker 1: because I've seen their ads every morning. I see your
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  Speaker 1: ads too, right, I love I love like when it's
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  Speaker 1: like you're going back to the schools and education is part.
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  Speaker 4: Of the campaign. How do you combat that?
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  Speaker 1: Like, what's the strategy to run against somebody that seems
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  Speaker 1: to have capital that's almost pretty extensive, I want to
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  Speaker 1: say unlimited, but very extensive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, just to give you some more context, before
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  Speaker 3: I answer your question. So they spent ten million on
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  Speaker 3: ads within a four week period, just a couple of
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago. That is more money than President Biden has
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  Speaker 3: spent on broadcasts all year. So literally within a four
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  Speaker 3: week period, they were trying to bombard people with the
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  Speaker 3: message that they wanted to send out about my record,
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  Speaker 3: which is complete misinformation and disinformation and propaganda, not accurate
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  Speaker 3: at all. But that gives you an idea. Comparing it
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  Speaker 3: to President's Biden overall spending for the year, it's not
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  Speaker 3: even close, and so you can't compete with them dollar
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  Speaker 3: for dollar. But what you can do is you can
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  Speaker 3: have an incredible field operation and ground game that literally
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  Speaker 3: goes door to door. And so for us, we spend
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time and effort on our field operation.
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  Speaker 3: We spend money on field to make sure we are
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  Speaker 3: knocking doors in particular areas. But then we also have
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  Speaker 3: an incredible volunteer army of at least that volunteers who
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  Speaker 3: are making tens of thousands of calls and knocking tens
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  Speaker 3: of thousands of doors every few days. And so that's
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  Speaker 3: how you combat it. They got money, we got people.
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  Speaker 3: This is the many versus the money. And most of
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  Speaker 3: the district supports my policies as it relates to Gaza.
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  Speaker 3: For example, they support the permanencies fire, They support you know,
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  Speaker 3: me wanting to fight to bring that three point eight
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  Speaker 3: billion dollars back here to help people with you know,
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  Speaker 3: entrepreneurship opportunities, affordable housing, affordable childcare, fully funding schools, et cetera,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. Most of the American people are with us.
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  Speaker 3: The challenge is they have all the money, and they
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  Speaker 3: also have media infrastructure in place where they can, you know,
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  Speaker 3: quickly pivot and weaponize something I said or did against
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  Speaker 3: us as well, which is part of what they're doing
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  Speaker 3: during this campaign.
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  Speaker 5: With hindsight being twenty twenty, do you regret making some
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  Speaker 5: of the statements that you did and maybe that could
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  Speaker 5: have prevented the attack. Do you feel as if, no
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  Speaker 5: matter what was stated, they were going to attack you
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  Speaker 5: through media.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and no, I don't regret it at all. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not in Congress to be comfortable or to be quiet,
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  Speaker 3: not in Congress to just go along and get along.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm not there fighting for justice like racial justice,
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  Speaker 3: economic justice, adjust foreign policy, then you know I'm not
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be there. If I'm not there fighting for
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  Speaker 3: those things. So no, I don't. I don't regret it
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  Speaker 3: at all. And as a matter of fact, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: this is exactly what we needed to be doing at
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  Speaker 3: this time. This is an example of us carrying on
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  Speaker 3: the legacy of our ancestors who fought and died for
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  Speaker 3: everything from the end of slavery to the end of
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  Speaker 3: Jim Crow to the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look at what happened during the sixties, with
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  Speaker 3: so many martyrs, Doctor King, Malcolm X Mega Evers, and
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  Speaker 3: so many others, you know, And so this is kind
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  Speaker 3: of my responsibility, I think, as you know, not just
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  Speaker 3: a black man in Congress, but a certain type of
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  Speaker 3: black consciousness in Congress. You know, I'm supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: doing this, and I actually take it as a badger
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  Speaker 3: honor that they're spending more money than they ever spend
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  Speaker 3: history to get me out of office.
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  Speaker 2: So let me ask you this. Okay, So three points
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  Speaker 2: eight billion, you said, goest Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Three point eight billion a year plus plus let me
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  Speaker 3: just add real quick before you asked your question. Plus whenever,
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  Speaker 3: like whenever something occurs out of the ordinary. A pac
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  Speaker 3: writes a bill for Congress to appropriate more money for Israel.
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  Speaker 3: So during my first term we annually, no matter what,
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  Speaker 3: if everything's quiet, calm, three point eight billions already earmarked.
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  Speaker 3: But my first term, Hama sent rockets to attack Israel
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  Speaker 3: and Israel had to use some of this I am
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  Speaker 3: don't defense resources. And right after that, Apak wrote a
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  Speaker 3: bill so that we could send an additional billion to
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  Speaker 3: Israel on top of the three point eight billion. Right
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  Speaker 3: now with the attacks happening in Gaza right now, we
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  Speaker 3: just passed a bill of sending an additional fourteen billion
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  Speaker 3: into Israel, almost like to help them re up their
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  Speaker 3: military resources after this conflict, so that whenever they need it,
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  Speaker 3: we got it. That's how it goes.
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