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alarimer

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7. Corporate money in politics

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jan 14, 2017, 12:25 PM

Jan 2017

Like the vote the other day on drug reimportation. There was a clear delineation in who voted against it based on the pharma contributions.

I think we could go a long way towards fixing it by banning corporate money and lobbying. It is poisoning everything.

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