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Shockingly (or not), I expect the vast majority of U.S. politicians would say that's exactly how they behave. How much you believe them is probably a good prox
by twoodfin 11y ago
Shockingly (or not), I expect the vast majority of U.S. politicians would say that's exactly how they behave.
How much you believe them is probably a good proxy for how important you think campaign finance issues are.
- JoshTriplett 11y ago> Shockingly (or not), I expect the vast majority of U.S. politicians would say that's exactly how they behave. Except I've never once seen such a claim actually made by any politician. So at the very least it seems likely to stand out. And as for how to believe them: "I intentionally have no access to the donor list, I have never seen the donor list, and if you tell me you've donated to my campaign I will have no particular reason to believe you, so don't bother".
- Bill_Dimm 11y ago> Except I've never once seen such a claim actually made by any politician. So at the very least it seems likely to stand out. Marco Rubio made a claim like that on Meet The Press two days ago. > I intentionally have no access to the donor list That would require doing away with the $50,000 per plate fundraising dinners.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Except I've never once seen such a claim actually made by any politician. I've seen it made by almost every politician I've seen questioned about the impact of particular donations, and most people defending campaign donations against proposals to regulate them more closely; and as a lifelong political junkie and Political Science major, those are things I've seen quite a lot of.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoI see; I hadn't seen that, and that explains the pile of negative responses and downvotes to my original comment. Thanks for the explanation.