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Bernie Sanders

sabrina 1

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6. Once you take money from corporate sponsors, you are no longer your own person.

Reply to Autumn (Reply #5)

Wed May 13, 2015, 11:38 AM

May 2015

That of course is the goal of Citizens United, to OWN our government.

Whatever her own positions on issues may be, she has to consider the people who are paying to put her in the WH.

Otoh, with Bernie now refusing to take Corporate money, she could join him and then challenge the Republicans to do the same.

IF her own views are different from those of her corporate funders, she can free herself up and cast off the chains of Wall St money, and speak her own mind. Assuming that she does not support their views.

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Now this is what a Presidential candidate does. He speaks out. Hillary isn't a Senator Autumn May 2015 #5

Once you take money from corporate sponsors, you are no longer your own person. sabrina 1 May 2015 #6