CSpan lobbying & political corruption

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Live xmas telecast. Lawrence Lessig ($ out of politics guy/professor) hosts Abramoff who has had a conversion. Sadly, he is still a lolibertarian :

Live Video - C-SPAN | C-SPAN

 

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Its over now but will be in their video library shortly Abramoff said the Congress deserves their sub- Obama approval-rating

 

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Its being replayed now. Jack says that committee hearings are basically a kangaroo court and financed by lobbyists too. ANOTHER reason to re-institute the BCRA (know what that is Righties? ) and overturn Citizens United

 

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Its being replayed now. Jack says that committee hearings are basically a kangaroo court and financed by lobbyists too. ANOTHER reason to re-institute the BCRA (know what that is Righties? ) and overturn Citizens United

Poor right wing dupes .. left wing ones too .. "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" -

 

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NPR has this: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142506539/jack-abramoff-calls-d-c-politics-dirty-as-ever

Jack Abramoff on Corruption - C-SPAN Video Library

- but here is a video link at Harvard: http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2011/12/09_jack_abramoff_talks_about_corruption.html

- TPMMuckraker
Corruption 101: Abramoff Takes His New Reforming Zeal To Harvard
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsme...f_takes_his_new_reforming_zeal_to_harvard.php ::

 

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I heard about Lawrence Lessig while investigating how to get $ out of politics
Fix Congress First - Fighting the Corrupting Influence of Money in Politics
Rootstrikers - Fighting the corrupting influence of money in politics
Lawrence Lessig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Money in politics
At the iCommons iSummit 07, Lessig announced that he will stop focusing his attention on copyright and related matters and will work on political corruption instead.[17] This new work may be partially facilitated through his wiki, "Lessig Wiki", which he has encouraged the public to use to document cases of corruption