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Related: About this forumRep. Ocasio-Cortez Dissects Broken Campaign Finance Laws & Democracy *20 MILL VIEWS*
WATCH: This week's Viral Video of Ocasio-Cortez Explaining "Fundamentally Broken" US Democracy Has Been Viewed More Than 16 Million Times. Lawmaker "exposes just how much 'bad guys' can get away with."
Feb. 8. In a critique of campaign finance laws that has now gone viral, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) this week showed how the United States has "a system that is fundamentally broken" due to the pervasive influence of corporate money that infects every aspect of the nation's democracy.
The take-downwhich took just under 5 minutesoccurred Wednesday during a hearing held by the House Oversight Committee. To make her point, she played "a lightning round game" with the watchdogs on the panel, including Common Cause's Karen Hobert lynn, CREW's Walter Shaub, and Brennan Center for Justice's Mehrbani Spitzer.
With her creative attack, said Common Cause, the freshman lawmaker "exposes just how much 'bad guys' can get away with under the shameful state of our campaign finance laws."...More.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/08/watch-viral-video-ocasio-cortez-explaining-fundamentally-broken-us-democracy-has
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Dissects Broken Campaign Finance Laws & Democracy *20 MILL VIEWS* (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Feb 2019
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KayF
(1,345 posts)1. 20.8 Million now
just on NowThisNews (which is a great twitter feed by the way).
I wonder how many people saw that on TV? Somewhat less than 20.8 Million I bet.
appalachiablue
(41,204 posts)3. Tx for the update. I need to update Java /smthg. to watch T. videos.
eissa
(4,238 posts)2. Brilliant!
We're lucky to have her, hope she continues to shine.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)4. bet she has a bat with a lightning bolt on it?
bc she's a natural.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)5. Has Scotty Walker responded with a tweet of his own?
He's an expert when it comes to the pervasive influence of corporate money.
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)6. No squishy pablum there.....
Just free range, good for you, crunchy, spicy granola.
mysteryowl
(7,443 posts)7. Nicely done. Good work!
Hotler
(11,484 posts)8. Let the cleasning begin
with our freshmen representatives.