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9. Guy's #4 on Brookings List of Politically Powerful Billionaires

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 10:48 PM

Mar 2015

http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2014/billionaires-us-political-power-index

Shoot. All the billions these guys and gals are holding makes me want to become a Republican. I can understand where the Godman Sachs wing is coming from, wanting to be their friend.

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