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In my experience the influence you describe has more to do with motivation than money.
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The point for me is not how money effects outcome of elections, though I'm sure others can show it does and how it does. Its how the money spent equals votes for those lobbyists interests instead of the popular voice of the constituency, even if they happen to agree.
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I suspect motivated people can have a bigger impact than the biggest campaign donors.
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If only... what a world that would be.
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So, I am either optimistic about the power regular people have or I am a pollyanna. I truly believe that once regular people have had enough and get motivated, they will easily over-come big money interest. I think the Tea Party is and will be a reflection of that.
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I agree, but then not really... I cannot consider a billionaire/corporate backed group as being a reflection of people easily overcoming money interests. It's a money interest overcoming another money interests and using a wide swath of societal ignorance to create the illusion of a peoples populist movement by sticking them out in the front. I think the real reflection is yet to come and with it will come finance reform, laws that support truth in campaign advertising,
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I don't lie.
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Everyone Lies. It's not just a clever line from a TV show. This is my area of expertise, it is a fact.
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I find that much more of a problem than how a person fills out a form, who pays them for a speech, or what their wife does.
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I think they are all relevant to character and in considering if a conflict of interest exists.