Corporate Money Is Flooding NYC Council Elections

The last few years have seen corporate interests and pro-Israel groups teaming up to try to crush left-wing congressional candidates and challengers. Now that same strategy is rearing its head way down ballot: in the New York City Council elections.

The last few years have seen corporate interests and pro-Israel groups regularly team up to beat back what they increasingly see as their common enemy: a grassroots-led socialist and progressive movement rising within the Democratic Party — usually by jumping into the party’s primaries to try to crush left-wing insurgents and incumbents. Last year, that strategy saw an avalanche of corporate money funneled through pro-Israel PACs unseat two members of the left-wing Squad from Congress.

Now that same strategy is rearing its head way down ballo