Today's JusticeDems email requires another mini-breakdown of its own.

It starts with a slam on Sara Gideon for having $14M left over after her race, so let's start with that 👇
Sara Gideon ran for Senate in Maine, but sadly lost to Susan Collins.

Sara was Speaker of the House in Maine. She studied PoliSci at GWU & worked her way up through the ranks.

She was endorsed by pretty much everyone!

JDems ran a "candidate" against her: Betsy Sweet
Betsy is a lobbyist and a psychic who charges $ to talk to grieving people's dead loved ones.

She claims to have a Master's in Spiritual Healing from an unaccredited college that is QUOTE "Definitely not a cult" (and doesn't seem to offer Master's degrees)

JD endorsed her 2x.
Betsy got a very generous 22% of the primary vote!

Sara got 42% of the vote against Susan Collins.

They claim she had $14M leftover but I'm not sure where that # came from because last 2 months' FEC data haven't been filed yet.

Sara was the recipient of $20M in attack ads.
Ok moving on...

They opine about how they could elect 7 new Squad members with that $14M!! As if that $ should have been theirs for some reason.

But since it took AOC >$14M to get re-elected in her D+29 district, I doubt that.
The $2M in support of Bowman/Bush included expenditures by the Justice Dems who QUIETLY BECAME A SUPERPAC OVER THE SUMMER.

They spent $620k on ads in support of Bowman and $300k opposing Engel.

& $150k on Cori Bush.
Their achievements are knocking great Representatives (Crowley, Clay, Engel) out of the House and replacing them with Reps that act like controlled opposition.
This claim about grassroots is even more bullshit now. By becoming a SuperPAC they can accept unlimited donations from anyone at all. Corporations, unions, individuals, billionaires...anyone.

They've already begun, look at those donations from Charles Dunlop of.. Ambry Genetics?
More info coming about the SuperPAC business but I needed to call BS on this email.

And finally...I misread that first sentence and thought they called AOC & Bowman "piece of work" which is something I could have agreed with.
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