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On the recordApril 11, 2011
I find it interesting that we think it is corrupting for a corporation to give me money which I then use to buy ads, but not corrupting for the same corporation to buy its own ads through Citizens United.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse critiques the perceived hypocrisy in corporate spending on political ads.

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