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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 08:53 AM
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Edwards Would Ban Lobbyists' Donations



http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/13/edwards_sharpens_view_on_lobby.html?hpid=topnews


John Edwards
Edwards Would Ban Lobbyists' Donations

Former North Carolina senator John Edwards (D) proposed Saturday banning lobbyists from contributing to federal campaigns, part of his growing effort to cast himself as the candidate to clean up the election system. He also said he would expand public financing of elections.

Describing the Democratic front-runner, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), as "the poster child for what's wrong in American politics today," Edwards said, "They talk about changing the system, then they conduct business as usual." He added that in the next election, "we're not going to have an auction, we're going to actually have an election."........

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