End Citizens United aggressively seeks campaign finance reform

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By Joe Garofoli, San Fransisco Chronicle

(July 4, 2016 07:12 pm) — In one of his earliest moments of raw candor during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that when big donors like him give politicians money, they “do whatever the hell you want them to do.”

“That’s a broken system,” Trump said during a Republican debate back in August. He piled on by mocking his opponents who pandered to the Koch brothers as “puppets” of the billionaire conservative businessmen.

Yet even as the political polar opposites Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont spent the past year railing on about a “rigged” political system that allows wealthy donors outsize influence, campaign finance reform isn’t the kind of sexy issue that drives voters to the polls.

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