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KT2000

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2. the Kochs

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:40 PM

Nov 2017

have been busy buying state legislatures on this. Until we get a grasp on the money paid to politicians, they will eventually take over, with their other billionaire friends. We cannot win on policy alone because they also buy "their truth" for the foolish.

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