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Tue Feb 18, 2020, 09:26 PM

Bluesaph (531 posts)

Buying election? Really?

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We need to get money out of elections.

But I don’t see a difference between a candidate using his/her own money or that of super PACs full of billionaires. Mike Bloomberg could have had a friend start a super PAC and kept it overflowing with mysterious donations. He straight up is paying for ads that help ALL Democrats because they are ALL against Trump.

I’m not a fan of Bloomberg since Biden is my first choice. But please stop with the money accusations! We WANT him to keep getting under Dump’s skin!

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4 replies	Author	Time	Post
Buying election? Really? (Original post)	Bluesaph	Feb 2020	OP
"money out of elections"	handmade34	Feb 2020	#1
The billionaire in the race is self funding. The millionaires in the race are asking	stopbush	Feb 2020	#2
He is the 62 billion dollar man. The $344 million thst he has put into the campaign is 0.56% of his	CentralMass	Feb 2020	#3
Locking.	GP6971	Feb 2020	#4

Response to Bluesaph (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2020, 09:30 PM

handmade34 (22,172 posts)

1. "money out of elections"

I don't see the difference when it is millions of small donations (taking money from the poorest

)

we need to rethink the entire system

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Tue Feb 18, 2020, 09:40 PM

stopbush (24,128 posts)

2. The billionaire in the race is self funding. The millionaires in the race are asking

millions of people who have five-figure incomes to fund their campaigns.

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Tue Feb 18, 2020, 10:00 PM

CentralMass (14,514 posts)

3. He is the 62 billion dollar man. The $344 million thst he has put into the campaign is 0.56% of his

wealth.

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Response to Bluesaph (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2020, 10:14 PM

GP6971 (24,501 posts)

4. Locking.

Please repost in the Primaries forum.

Thanks.

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