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JT45242

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4. Same problem as education advocates..no big donors

Reply to LearnedHand (Original post)

Fri Dec 31, 2021, 04:24 PM

Dec 2021

In our pay to play system, made worse by citizens united, only those interests that put cash on the barrel head move.

Money pays and money says.

If we donated as much money as the CEO of the airlines and coal companies, we might be able to move manchin.

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