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Angus King: “Clearly it is not healthy for democracy to have that amount of money sloshing around in the system.”

On the recordMarch 10, 2014
Clearly it is not healthy for democracy to have that amount of money sloshing around in the system.
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Angus King
Independent · Maine

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the negative effects of large sums of money in politics.

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