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Iwillnevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 10:10 AM
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Sheldon Whitehouse: Clean Out Corporations from Government
Edited on Sat Jun-19-10 10:11 AM by Iwillnevergiveup
"This American Government of ours should never give the American citizen reason to question whose interests are being served. Never."

--snip--

Impassioned speech from 6/18/10. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/karoli/sheldon-whitehouse

Edited for link.


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Iwillnevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 10:16 AM
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1. Senator Whitehouse
has long been a sane and consistent voice IMHO. Brilliant and thoughtful, speaks truth to power. But too many other bought-out senators fail to rally around him.
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Phlem Donating Member (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 10:42 AM
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2. Can he be President Please
just sayin.

-p
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 10:54 AM
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4. He's not historic enough
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 10:56 AM
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6. ...
:evilgrin:
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neverforget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 10:48 AM
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3. Amen!
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 10:54 AM
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5. The right Honorable Senator proposes to turn Washington D.C. into a ghost town
Banish corporations from the halls of government? Banish Diamond Jim, banish all the world.
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 11:17 AM
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7. absolutely need to stop corporate/moneyed interests BUT
it's never happened so far.
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Iwillnevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-10 01:07 AM
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8. Sheldon deserves our thanks
Edited on Sun Jun-20-10 01:10 AM by Iwillnevergiveup
for his heroic speech. We need so many more like him. Oh, and by the way, his wife is a marine
biologist! Here's where you can reach him:

http://whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
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