Yes, we're corrupt: A list of politicians admitting that money controls politics

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• “We are the only people in the world required by law to take large amounts of money from strangers and then act as if it has no effect on our behavior.” — Barney Frank, 16-term Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, in the 1990s. (Thanks to RO, via email.)

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/30/politicians-admitting-obvious-fact-money-affects-vote/

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1. not bank lobbiest and hillary supporter barney frank?! oh say it isn't so!

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2. Thereby proving his own point.

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3. how Citizens United Helps Hillary:

http://njtoday.net/2016/04/08/citizens-united-floods-hillary-clinton-campaign-dirty-money/

Hillary Clinton fashions herself as the ultimate general in a war against big-money politics.

“You’re not going to find anybody more committed to aggressive campaign finance reform than me,” Clinton said following the New Hampshire primary.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Center for American Progress March 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. Clinton joined a panel in discussing challenges facing urban centers in the United States. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is benefiting from the Citizens United decision that permits unlimited political cash.
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

But the Democratic presidential front-runner stands poised to bludgeon her general election opponent with Republicans’ favorite political superweapon: the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which earlier this decade launched a new era of unbridled fundraising.

Clinton’s massive campaign machine is built of the very stuff — super PACs, secret cash, unlimited contributions — she says she’ll attack upon winning the White House.

Indeed, a Center for Public Integrity investigation reveals that Clinton’s own election efforts are largely immune from her reformist platform. While Clinton rails against “unaccountable money” that is “corrupting our political system,” corporations, unions and nonprofits bankrolled by unknown donors have already poured millions of dollars into a network of Clinton-boosting political organizations. That’s on top of the tens of millions an elite club of Democratic mega-donors.....

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