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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the real HRC:
[url]http://www.salon.com/2015/07/27/hillary_has_her_hands_out_democracy_for_oligarchs_and_bernie_sanders_radical_campaign_finance_pledge/[/url][/quote]
Here's a summary of the column for others: It basically says that because Clinton has accepted money from wealthy donors and PACs, she cannot creibly claim to want to reduce the influence of money on the political process.  "[i]Sanders’ campaign is exclusively voter-financed. “I am raising money from small individual contributions,” he told CBS’s John Dickerson. “I don’t have a super PAC. I don’t want money from the billionaires. And that’s the way we’re going to run our campaign.” Sanders’ reliance on individual contributions for campaign funding means he’s beholden to thousands of voters, to the people, not to a handful of corporate backers. In short, it means he’s an authentic populist.[/i]"  In effect, the column is a love letter to Bernie Sanders, and a completely unrealistic proposal.  It's like saying Clinton should refuse to travel in gasoline-powered vehicles while campaigning, to prove her environmental bona fides.  Interesting challenge, but it would basically doom her (and any candidate) to losing in the name of an idealistic principle that the candidate doesn't even espouse.  [/quote]

All the more reason to pass campaign finance reform legislation. More effort is spent on campaigning and fundraising than on serving the people.

That is their job...right?[/quote]

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