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But if you're not part of the 1% to the billionaires club or the rest, your influence is so much less. i mean, there is no pac out there for poor kids. >> yep. no money, no voice. let's talk about this, you say that this violates the protection of political speech. how so? >> well, there is this debate that's been going on since 1976. we used to say, is money speech? obviously nothing is more important than participation in the political process. but i would also argue that nothing is more important than the integrity of the political process. and equating money with participation, which is re...

State and, suddenly, this is all taken care of within the state. suddenly hiring out of state workers and young people who don't know what they're talking about. when we follow the trail of the story, we came back and looked for howard rich's offices and rang his bell, you know, for about an hour. no answer. he didn't have to respond. he didn't want to talk to us and this is what was happening in 2006. >> you know, the two head scratching things for most average people in citizens united. money speech, corporations people. in most the average people think, no, corporations aren't people and mo...