Buttigieg 2020

IndianaDave

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14. Until Citizens United is overturned and the financial laws change for candidates

Fri Apr 26, 2019, 01:27 AM

Apr 2019

all of them are in a monetary bind. They cannot compete unless they raise large amounts of money, and so they are constricted by the system. Pete wants to rescind Citizens United, but he can't do that until he is elected. Please give him -- and other candidates who are forced to operate within the current, unjust, broken, but real electoral system -- some leeway to raise funds without attacking them for operating within a process they did not create, but must function within until they gain the power to change it.

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If true, I'm back to [View all] cilla4progress Apr 2019 OP

For crying out loud leftofcool Apr 2019 #1

look up bundlers, they ALL (the ones who survive through the first 5 primaries) will get MILLIONS Celerity Apr 2019 #2

Impressive cilla4progress Apr 2019 #5

I was drunk as shit, so THANKS! Celerity Apr 2019 #6

hahaha! cilla4progress Apr 2019 #7

we are back in the EU atm, visiting my mum and my wife's parents Celerity Apr 2019 #8

Wow - awesome! cilla4progress Apr 2019 #9

Wait to see how Brexit shakes out, unless she is willing to go to a non Anglophone nation. Celerity Apr 2019 #10

Absolutely. cilla4progress Apr 2019 #11

Stockholms Universitet has a magnificent environmental post grad programme. Celerity Apr 2019 #13

Shaun King ? You take his word ? left-of-center2012 Apr 2019 #3

And then there's this... True Dough Apr 2019 #4

I think we need to be careful posting disparaging remarks defacto7 Apr 2019 #12

Until Citizens United is overturned and the financial laws change for candidates IndianaDave Apr 2019 #14