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What allowed this extreme amount of money to go into politics when we have been working with some form of campaign finance my entire life and it s the citizens united supreme court decision which allowed billionaires and corporations to use their resources, their money, to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens and it is very undemocratic and i would say, frankly, dangerous. david, you want to weigh in with something? well, you know, the examples of peek like checky who didn t get elected in california. politics is venture capitalism to sheldon adelson. what we have done with citizens united is gone from risky venture capital you may donate and not get your person elected to mezzanine finance. we don t hear from the voices of people who could change the political debated unless people with a lot of money backed them. that is part of the problem. we are limiting who gets into ....

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