04:52 pm
- you talk in the book, that money does not necessarily mean "influence", but it does mean "access"?
- yeah, it means access, but the most important thing it means is - this is the thing that congressmen are obsessing about all the time/ they spend 30 to 70% of their time raising money. which means they are constantly focused on shape shifting to get the money; to avoid doing thing that might drive the money away. so it's no surprise that when they live this life they become dependent upon the funders as opposed to people. and that is the corruption.
Lawrence Lessig @ the daily show ; 2011.12.13.
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