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• The total spent per month by special interests dining, and seducing federal officials is now nearly $200 million.
• The masters of the money game taken advantage of that weakness in our democracy to turn our elections into auctions.
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Look what happened Connecticut last year, a state rocked by multiple political scandals. While examples abound of how the rules stacked the deck, consider one: the Medicare prescription bill. Since President Bush was elected the number of registered in Washington has more than doubled. Our system of privately financed has shut regular people out of any meaningful participation in democracy.

• A movement is gathering the country that could restore democracy to a country run by money.