{"id":35855,"date":"2024-08-30T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=35855"},"modified":"2024-08-30T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T05:09:57","slug":"35855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/35855\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Trevor Chandler keep hiding his work for AIPAC?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Five years working for a group that helps to elect Republicans, often right-wing Republicans\u2014and it’s nowhere on his campaign website, resume, or what he tells voters.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By TIM REDMOND<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUGUST 28, 2024 (MissionLocal.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are so many debates and candidate forums this fall that it\u2019s hard to keep track, much less attend them all. Mission Local did a good job on this one, at City College,<\/a> reporting that D9 candidate Trevor Chandler opposes expanding rent control and would not have voted for a Gaza ceasefire resolution.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was intrigued enough by a forum for D9 candidates held at Monkeybrains, the Mission-based Internet service provider, that I showed up between other events. It was advertised as a community discussion on tech issues, including AI, robotaxies, policy spy software, and the like. All of which we need to discuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trevor Chandler, D9 candidate, says his career has been advancing LGBTQ civil rights. He left out five years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the candidates got the questions in advance, which made it less interesting. There was a bit of debate, but not much. In some cases, as with Sen. Scott Wiener\u2019s AI regulation bill, many of the candidates didn\u2019t have a position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, I\u2019m glad I went: Trevor Chandler, the candidate backed by the billionaires who are trying to take over local politics, introduced himself by saying that \u201cmy professional background is in LGBTQ civil rights.\u201d He also told the tech-friendly audience that he had worked for Citizen, the \u201cpublic safety app\u201d which has been the subject of considerable concern over privacy<\/a>, and in its early days, racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to his LinkedIn account, Chandler worked for Citizen for nine months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He worked for the Human Rights Campaign, which promotes LGBTQ issues, for six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What he didn\u2019t mention, and never mentions, is that he spent almost as much time, five years and four months, working for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AIPAC is a long-established organization<\/a>. It\u2019s been around since 1954. Unlike the early versions of Citizen, it\u2019s hardly an underground, dubious operation. Why won\u2019t Chandler talk about his tenure there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It there\u2019s nothing to be embarassed about here, why is it missing from all of his campaign messaging and all of his public statements?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me hazard a guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AIPAC is a classic single-issue organization. It raises and spends tens of millions of dollars to elect members of Congress who support the State of Israel. The group makes no distinction between Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, AIPAC has spent some of its money electing Republicans who support Israe<\/a>l\u2014but oppose same-sex marriage, rights for transgender kids, and pretty much everything the HRC works for. Senators supported by AIPAC supported the Trump Supreme Court judges who overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em> \u2014 and that decision, by many accounts, can and will be used to overturn the decision legalizing same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AIPAC has funded candidates who opposed pretty much everything the vast majority of the voters in D9 support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I guess it\u2019s not a surprise that Chandler wants to play down, or ignore, that part of his resume. I asked him about it a few weeks ago, at another event, and he told me: \u201cI care more about what\u2019s happening in the streets of the Mission than in the streets of Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think a fair number of the voters in D9 care about both.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Redmond<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder of 48hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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