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It Didn’t Used To Be Like This: A look back to when a U.S. Senator campaigned on $200 total

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Joanne Boyer

It really wasn’t that long ago when campaigns were run without the truly obscene influence of money brought on by the disastrous U.S. Supreme Court Citizens United ruling. We take a look back at the great U.S. Senator Bill Proxmire, who as recently as 1982 (that’s not that long ago) ran his re-election campaign on $200. We don’t have to run our “democracy” as we do today. There are better ways. Continue reading →

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