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Who would that be? Well, he is not a recipient of large corporate contributions. 80% of his contributions came from over 15,000 individual donors, many of whom who have given multiple donations.
He is not a teabagger relentlessly promoted by Fox news, and he gets little media coverage by any news outlet. He does not think that the Earth was created 6000 years ago, that President Obama was born in Kenya, or that global warming is a hoax. He is not a high-profile Democrat like Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank that gets under the skin of conservative commentators. He is not even a Republican.
In fact he is a populist congressman that has been outspoken against the wars, has railed on too-big-to-fail bank executives and the Federal Reserve, and let his do-nothing colleagues in the House opposed to health care reform have it in a controversial speech in which he apologized to the 45,000 Americans who die from lack of health care each year.
He was also one of the first to write a package of bills to counteract the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a decision which would allow unlimited funding of campaign ads by corporations, saying, “If we do nothing then I think you can kiss your country goodbye. You won’t have any more senators from Kansas or Oregon, you’ll have senators from Cheekies and Exxon. Maybe we’ll have to wear corporate logos like Nascar drivers.”
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