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Stephen A. Zappala Jr. is running against former county chief public defender Matt Dugan for District Attorney. During May’s primary election, Zappala, a longtime Democrat, lost to Dugan while successfully campaigning for the Republican nomination.
And author of "winners take all." the root.com political editor and msnbc political contributor and a professor at morgan state university and rick tyler, republican strategy ikist and msnbc political analyst. when i saw this i'm like holy cow, this is a rageing ball of fire at the heart of everything you have worked on. these parents, we know it's the system. we know that college is now a business. okay. admission officers have metrics to meet. what used to be a college admissions process is now a system. they need to up the amount of applications, they need to lower the amount of acceptances...
>> regardless of how you feel about all of the super pac money and all of the money being handed out by dig donors, the citizens united case. obviously both sides of this issue, of course. free speech. contribute to a campaign however you feel fit to. your name put up by the opposition's web site in some sort of laundry list. reminds me of 1950's hollywood scare tactics. >> you know it sin tim accommodation. obviously the goal here is to it keep these large donors from giving money to shame them from giving money to the romney camp. now, some have suggested that if you give a million dollars, ...
Know. no. he is a damaged brand, but what you're seeing is that the republicans are sort of setting up an alternative infrastructure in order to go -- in order to go after democrats. that's what we see with steele circling the wagons here. he's going to be kind of an isolated figure. that's going to have an actual real world impact, though, in that the rnc, the only way they're going to have to raise money now is they're going to e-mail out to their supporters and they're going to send mailouts to supporters. you don't raise money over an e-mail list or mail list by asking nicely. you do it wi...
I've been enjoying watching you work. you have a tough job. >> i love my job. let get to the job that you want to get to. you've said that politics is corrupted. especially by dig donors. is this realistic to only accept small individual donations, a hundred bucks at a time rather than huge sums of cash? >> i need a million people. i need a million people who are looking for decent work who think trade with china is unfair the way it's practiced who want to grow america and who don't think wall street should own washington. i need a million people at a hundred dollars. you know, we have contri...