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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Replying to @justicedems
This seems like one of those Michael Kinsley gaffes where a politician is being pilloried for telling the truth. Biden is clearly explaining how money buys access in politics without outright bribery taking place, due in part to basic human nature.
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Replying to @Pinboard @justicedems
Also, an American politician who refuses to take a meeting with someone who raised $250K for them is... just not a very good politician. Even large single donors get a thank you call.
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Replying to @Pinboard @justicedems
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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No one benefits from making it a political sin to honestly describe the role and importance of fundraising.
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