1) Susan Collins is right. Threatening to fund her opponent if she doesn't vote a certain way is arguably a kind of bribery. 2) Is her objection that this money comes from many people, rather than one rich person, corporation, or PAC? Because that's the only difference I can seehttps://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1039633354268835840 …
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That's not actually been proven, in fact most the literature analyzing money on politics suggests politicians probably don't change their behavior over contributions and that the vast majority of lobbying happens through other means.https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-28038-3_8 …
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I mean “behavior” broadly, including who they’ll meet with or take a call from.
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