Saujani on Settlements, PAC Money
Thursday, July 08, 2010 - 08:46 AM
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New York Congressional Candidate Reshma Saujani (flick user: TCDisrupt (by))
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If there's one moment where congressional candidate Reshma Saujani squirms a little during her interview with Adam Dickter of The Jewish Week, it's around the 3:30 mark, when he asks her if Israel should be permitted to keep its settlements.
Saujani pauses momentarily and says, "I think the current plan that Netanyahu supports, I would support." She also says she's "disappointed" by Obama's position on the settlements. Netanyahu wants the settlements to grow. Obama wants them stopped.
Saujani appears more comfortable later in the interview (see the video below), when outlining a critique of the person she wants to unseat.
"This is one of the biggest distinctions between me and my opponent...the influence of special interests. Carolyn Maloney, compared to her congressional colleagues, takes a significant amount [of money] from corporate PACs, and I can't tell you the damage that it has done on so many of the issues that we care about," Saujani said.
To be clear, the criticism here is that Maloney takes money from "corporate PACs," or political action committees associated with big businesses. But, as this front-page Washington Post article today notes, Saujani's main source of campaign cash is from Wall Street firms which are donating to her campaign directly, not through PACs.
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I think Saujani sounds informed and confident in this interview, and it says a lot about her candidacy that she's not taking corporate PAC money. Special interests are the number one problem in washington and before we can get anything done we need to elect people who arent pandering to them.
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