Joe Biden: “If you go out and bundle $250K for me, all legal, and then you call me after I’m elected and say ‘Joe, I’d like to talk to you about something.’ I’m gonna say ‘Come on in.’ It’s human nature.” https://twitter.com/IbrahimAS97/status/1127031297505935360/video/1 …
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Punishing politicians for correctly describing the way campaign funding works is counterproductive. You can argue (and I will!) that bundled money is less corrupting, because it frees candidates to talk to voters rather than make hours of phone calls to donors every day
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Fundraising is the chief activity of every Congressperson and presidential candidate. It consumes literally hours a day of legislators' time. They do it between votes and during committee hearings (scurrying across the street to stay legal). They hate it more than you ever will.
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Thanks for bravely defending *checks notes* large donors buying our democracy.
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