MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell December 29, 2019 03:44:00
At the turn of the 20th century, mining magnates known as the copper kings used their corporate coveffers to literall buy and sell political offices until the people of montana demanded change. >> in 1906, the corporations shall control the people or the people shall control the corporations. so all of that was the tipping point where montana had said enough. it was called the corrupt practice act of 1912. it made it so corporate treasuries couldn't spend or contribute in any of our elections. >> that law stood for nearly 100 years until it was struck down, reopening the flood gates to corpora...