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6. My senator ... not by my choice ... Rob Portman (R OH) got 10 million from the NRA in 2016

Reply to watoos (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 23, 2018, 09:57 AM

Nov 2018

The Citizen's United ruling that allowed unlimited dark money into our elections
might have opened the spigot to dirty Russian money pouring into the NRA.

BTW Trump and connections to organized crime go back 50 years. Don's "formative
education" was from mafia lawyer Roy Cohen.

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My senator ... not by my choice ... Rob Portman (R OH) got 10 million from the NRA in 2016 Botany Nov 2018 #6

As has been suspected all along paleotn Nov 2018 #7

Fraud of DJT marieo1 Nov 2018 #8

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Wow! kentuck Nov 2018 #12

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