Democratic Party fundraising platform ActBlue ended the facilitation of donations for TX-35 Democratic primary candidate Maureen Galindo, the politician said, in the wake of scrutiny for her campaign promise to imprison Zionists.
ActBlue did not immediately respond to a Jerusalem Post query about the deactivation of its fundraiser, but as of Sunday, the donation page for Galindo was still not accepting donations.
“Thank you for your interest in making a donation. At this time, the fundraiser is not accepting donations. This may be temporary,” read the ActBlue donation page.
Galindo’s website shifted to the Quick Contribute platform to gather donations, and on Instagram proclaimed that ActBlue had shut down her donation page over “lies and defamation.”
“Close all internment camps!” Malindo said on Friday, referencing ICE facilities. “Arrest pedophile billionaire Zionists!”
Democrats condemn Galindo for threat of imprisoning Zionists
After social media posts last Thursday in which Galindo pledged to turn the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center into a prison for “American Zionists and former ICE officers,” several major Democratic figures condemned her.
On Wednesday, Democratic Party Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Jared Moskowitz said that if Galindo entered Congress, they would force a vote to expel her every day.
“Maureen’s insane, antisemitic views – including putting Americans in concentration camps – have no place in our party or country,” the congressmen said in a joint statement.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Suzan DelBene released a Tuesday statement condemning her and blaming the Republican Party campaign for propping her up.
Galindo claims media twisted her words
Galindo issued a press release on Friday, arguing that she had never uttered the words “internment camps” and that the media had twisted and misrepresented her words.
“She does want Karnes ICE facility to be turned into a prison for the billionaire Zionists who have profited off genocidal prison state materials and trafficking. Prosecution has nothing to do with religion,” Galindo clarified in her statement. “It’s their behaviors and actions that will be judged. It’s also true she wants a whole department and TV channel of exposing pedophiles and yes, sending them for castration at Karnes Prison, then moved to prisons with violent criminals.”
Galindo has claimed that Zionists sought to conquer the US using Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to occupy the country, asserting that the former was trained by the IDF and the latter was based in Israel.
The politician has also claimed that the “billionaire Zionists,” which supposedly orchestrated human trafficking in southern Texas, also controlled her Democratic primary opponent, Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Johnny Garcia, and called for him to be put on trial for treason.
Galindo has defended herself from accusations of antisemitism by repeatedly claiming that Zionist Jews were not real Jews. Zionists are European colonizers, according to Galindo, in contrast to the “indigenous people to the Middle East and Northern Africa Region,” whom she dubbed Semites. Consequently, Zionism was supposedly the real antisemitism, she said in a social media post last Thursday, gushing about the support she was receiving over such comments.
Galindo faces Garcia in a runoff election on Tuesday.