AIPAC Operative Speaks:
“So I think you know that AIPAC is, is both a grassroots organization and also a leadership empowerment organization. So a particular concern to us are not African Americans, but those African Americans that will be part of the Congressional Black Caucus, those African Americans that will be governors, those African Americans that will be part of the cabinet of successive administrations.
And we have. And rather successful, in identifying young emerging political leaders, sometimes when they’re in their teens. Sometimes when they’re in college campuses, sometimes when they’re just getting into a state politics, and sometimes when they first emerge as congressional candidates.
AIPAC built a relationship with Barack Obama before he was a president, before he was a presidential candidate. Before he was a US senator, we built a relationship with him before he was in the Illinois State House.
The relationship we built with Sarah Palin was before she was mayor. Ohh, the groups that we are most excited about bringing to Israel for the first time would be the national, state and local leaders of the College Republican National Committee and the College Democrats of America. And the fact that we bring them to Israel together, lock them in a bus, don’t let them come down from the top of Masada until they understand the importance of working together, may be one of our only hedges against the breakdown of bi-partisanship that we’re witnessing today.”
https://www.aipacpac.org/congressional-black-caucus
