Dem Congressional Candidate's Uncle and Top Campaign Donor Is CCP-Tied Businessman Calling on US To 'Join Forces' With Beijing
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
A congressional candidate's uncle spends decades cultivating ties with Chinese Communist Party officials, cuts checks to Soros-aligned outfits, and then writes checks to his niece's campaign. That's not guilt by association. That's a paper trail, and Janelle Stelson owes voters in Pennsylvania's 10th an actual answer, not a shrug.
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The uncle of the Democratic nominee running in Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District, Janelle Stelson, is a New York businessman who has spent his career advancing Chinese interests, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
He has routinely rubbed elbows with Chinese Communist Party members, holds significant ties to liberal megadonor George Soros, and has donated thousands of dollars to his niece's political campaign. The post Dem Congressional Candidate's Uncle and Top Campaign Donor Is CCP-Tied Businessman Calling on US To 'Join Forces' With Beijing appeared first on .
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A congressional candidate's uncle spends decades cultivating ties with Chinese Communist Party officials, cuts checks to Soros-aligned outfits, and then writes checks to his niece's campaign. That's not guilt by association. That's a paper trail, and Janelle Stelson owes voters in Pennsylvania's 10th an actual answer, not a shrug.
Family is family, sure. Nobody picks their relatives. But a top donor isn't a relative you're stuck with at Thanksgiving, it's someone whose money you chose to accept and whose influence you're now carrying into a campaign. If your uncle has spent his career arguing America should "join forces" with Beijing while the CCP steals our technology, floods our streets with fentanyl precursors, and threatens Taiwan, that's a conversation voters deserve before Election Day, not after some opposition researcher digs it up.
What's telling is how routine this has become. Chinese money and Chinese-aligned money keep finding their way into American politics through side doors, relatives, shell donors, foundations, and the candidates on the receiving end act shocked when someone notices. Stelson doesn't have to answer for her uncle's views. She does have to answer for whether she's going to keep his money and keep dodging the question.
Voters in the 10th District aren't asking for a loyalty test. They're asking whether the person who might represent them in Congress can look at a donor with these ties and say plainly that it's a problem. So far, silence isn't a good look.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.