Monica Alponte
I · U.S. House, AZ-1 · Tier 4
Tier 4, “Critical / conditions aid”
A retired business writer and former conservative TV talk-show co-host, the Libertarian nominee for the open AZ-1 seat, she runs on non-intervention, abolishing the IRS and the Federal Reserve, and refusing AIPAC money. The “Reject AIPAC” pledge on her campaign site says her campaign “recognizes the genocide in Gaza, stands firmly for an immediate arms embargo,” and her foreign-policy section rejects aid to Israel (“specifically Israeli aid”) within a call for “ending all foreign military and economic aid to every country without exception.” The Anti-Zionist America PAC (AZAPAC) endorses her.
A 4, on a thin record: a pledge graphic and a few lines on her first campaign’s site. The “Reject AIPAC” pledge on her site says “Our campaign recognizes the genocide in Gaza, stands firmly for an immediate arms embargo,” and her own statement names “aggression and genocide in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran,” in a list of wars that runs on to Ukraine, Russia and Venezuela. Her foreign-policy section rejects “specifically Israeli aid” within a call for “ending all foreign military and economic aid to every country without exception.” That is the genocide named and U.S. weapons for Israel refused. But the embargo appears once, in the pledge graphic, with no record of activism behind it, and her aid cut is the Libertarian end to all foreign aid, with Israel named inside it. Counter-cases: 4/5, if the pledge, the Israel-specific aid line and the AZAPAC endorsement are read as one consistent stance; or 3/4, if the embargo graphic is treated as template text inside a blanket non-intervention platform.
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