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Candidates Who Shun Corporate Cash Are Winning

By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted February 26, 2007.


Electoral reform isn't just starry-eyed theory: Clean elections are taking place in states from Arizona to North Carolina, reversing the big-money corruption that rampages throughout our political system.

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From "The Hightower Lowdown," edited by Jim Hightower and Phillip Frazer, February 2007. Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of "Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back."

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