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A world where congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. and it's that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.
-Lawrence Lessig
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A World Where Congressmen Spend 30 To

Lawrence Lessig
A world where congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. and it's that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.
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