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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Increasingly, we are living in a country that is controlled by special interest cash.   [/quote]

You can thank the Rs for fighting against campaign finance laws.   Dems tried to restrict big money in politics, but the Rs fought it all the way to SCOTUS, and the conservative leaning SCOTUS sided with the Rs.

You want strict gun control laws and big money out of politics?  Don't vote R.

Worth a read:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/01/21/how-citizens-united-changed-politics-in-6-charts/?utm_term=.9cba40cfa251
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 the Supreme Court issued the Citizens United ruling, a case that has drastically re-shaped the political landscape in its relatively short life span. President Obama condemned it in his 2010 state of the union address, Democrats tried, unsuccessfully, to make the 2010 midterms about it,...
 Citizens United -- which, in short, allowed corporations and labor unions to spend unlimited funds on direct advocacy for or against candidates ... [/quote]

In pictures:
[img]https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-21-at-2.15.28-PM.png&w=1484
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-jolly-flip-the-house_us_5a85274ae4b0774f31d1f615

[quote]“Republicans will never do anything on gun control,” says former GOP Rep. David Jolly. “The idea of gun policy in the Republican party is to try to get a speaking slot at the NRA and prove to that constituency that you are further right....Then, he called on voters to take to the ballot box in November:

“[b]If this is the issue that defines your ideology as a voter, there are two things I would suggest tonight. First, flip the House. Flip the House. Republicans are not going to do a single thing after this shooting we saw today[/b].”
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