J Street Launches Six-Figure ad Campaign to Boost Progressive in Swalwell’s Former Seat

J Street launches six-figure ad campaign to boost progressive in Swalwell’s former seat

J Street Action Fund, the super PAC affiliated with the progressive Israel advocacy group, spent $108,000 on Thursday on digital advertisements to boost progressive California state Sen. Aisha Wahab in the special election in California’s 14th Congressional District. The AIPAC-affiliated super PAC United Democracy Project has spent $1.2 million — along with significant independent expenditures by other groups —attacking Wahab and boosting modera…

AIPAC’s $4.4 million gamble on a California special election

AIPAC is pouring an eye-popping $4.4 million into an obscure California special election, spending heavily to defeat a Democratic state senator who won the primary by 26 points for a congressional seat that will be occupied for only a few months. The extraordinary spending against state Sen. Aisha Wahab has transformed the Aug. 18 contest to replace disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell into one of the largest political investments by the American…