Kathy Sullivan is right: there’s a lot to unpack in NHPR’s reporting on Maura Sullivan.
Because @NHPR didn’t examine just one claim about her experience. There’s a pattern here.
Let’s go through it.
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@maurasullivan Maura Sullivan has accepted nearly $32,000 directly from pro-Israel PACs this cycle, including $5,000 from AIPAC spin-off Democratic Majority for Israel and $20,000 from NORPAC.
New: I checked the AIPAC money claims in #NH01 myself.
$370,630 confirmed for Sullivan. $29,650 for Shaheen. Independently verified.
Shaheen donated hers to NH health centers. Sullivan: crickets. See blog for results & receipts. https://t.co/hnm02nU4YI
New: I checked the AIPAC money claims in #NH01 myself.
$370,630 confirmed for Sullivan. $29,650 for Shaheen. Independently verified.
Shaheen donated hers to NH health centers. Sullivan: crickets. See blog for results & receipts. https://t.co/hnm02nU4YI
“I haven’t taken a dime from AIPAC” doesn’t address the criticism.
No one claims AIPAC wrote Sullivan a $370,630 check.
The issue is the $370,630 her campaign received from individual donors also supporting AIPAC and aligned groups.
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I have spent my life serving this country. I am proud of my service and of the grassroots movement we have built on this campaign. I wanted you to hear it directly from me: I haven’t taken a dime from any corporate PAC or AIPAC. In Washington, I’ll fight to overturn Citizens United and abolish Trump’s ICE. #EarnedNeverGiven #NHPolitics
“Unrig the system” is quite a pitch from a hybrid PAC that financially backs Maura Sullivan and operates a joint fundraising committee with House Democratic leadership.
Apparently the plan is to unrig the system from inside the machine that rigged it.
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Turns out the $300,000 figure may be an undercount
Shaheen donated an equivalent amount. Beriont returned the contribution
Messmer independently identified $370,630 in AIPAC-adjacent contributions to Sullivan
What will Sullivan do with it?
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“Refusing to return” is an interesting choice of words.
Shaheen didn’t return the contributions identified on her side either. She donated an equivalent amount elsewhere.
If returning the money is the standard for Sullivan, that standard should apply to Shaheen too.
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Watching the two establishment candidates who have raised millions accuse each other of representing “the same-old establishment politics” is becoming one of my favorite features of this primary.
The funniest part is that they’re both right.
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Kathy, that’s different. You’re right @Stefany4NH returned the corporate PAC check
I’m asking about AIPAC-linked money. Stefany didn’t return those; she donated an equivalent amount elsewhere
If Maura should return hers, why wasn’t Stefany held to the same standard?
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Bryce, you’re calling @Stefany4NH attacks on @MauraSullivan a “smear campaign of lies.”
@NHKathySullivan, you’ve been defending Shaheen’s case against Sullivan.
So what, specifically, is false here? This seems like a factual disagreement worth settling.
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Natalie gets at the problem.
Shaheen faces criticism that her candidacy rests on family and inherited political identity. “My family has been here for generations and I was born here” doesn’t rebut it. It reinforces it.
Does @NHKathySullivan think this is fair game?
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“Nepo baby running as a change candidate” is a hell of a line, Natalie.
But Harrell challenged your characterization of the NHPR reporting, and you attacked Shaheen instead.
Where exactly did @NHPR tell Sullivan her Obama administration service “wasn’t a real job”?
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This may be the hardest attack for Shaheen to answer.
If Sullivan’s argument is that Shaheen’s political pedigree created the name recognition, connections and institutional advantages she’s now using to run as the “change” candidate, what’s the substantive rebuttal?
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Serving on a federal commission as an Obama appointee while working for PepsiCo is not the same as six years working in the Obama administration.
If a candidate claims six years “in the Obama Administration,” voters deserve to know what those six years consisted of.
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@Stefany4NH’s campaign manager is now publicly challenging @MauraSullivan’s claim that she “doesn’t take a dime from… ICE vendors.”
@NatSilverVT, does Sullivan’s campaign stand by that statement?
Two weeks before the primary, the gloves are officially off.
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Kathy Sullivan is right: there’s a lot to unpack in NHPR’s reporting on Maura Sullivan.
Because @NHPR didn’t examine just one claim about her experience. There’s a pattern here.
Let’s go through it.
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First in @UnionLeader. @maurasullivan returns fire @stefanyshaheen with response ad with vets speaking direct to camera. “Stefany is the kind of person who was born on third base and thought she hit a triple.” #nhpolitics
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