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4 Responses to Campaign contributions

  1. How skewed has the distribution of wealth in North Carolina become? If your gonna write about inequality you have to discuss the concentration of riches at the top as well as poverty. Right?

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  2. Burr might regret taking up the ‘bioterror mantle’ as its pretty darn clear that Big Pharma was behind the BARDA legislation that would creat a super secret vaccine agency and exempt manufacturers from product liability.

    Doesn’t the drug/biotech industry have enough influence around here?

    Medical consumers: hold on to your wallets!

  3. If Richard Burr has any unspent campaign contributions from his 2004 Senate run, he should immediately return them to the pharmaceutical companies who were so generous to him and other politricksters!

  4. Candidates should have to return excess funds to their contributors on a pro-rated basis. Raised $100K, used $$90K? Fine–now give back 10% of each contribution to the people who gave it. Exceptions: contributions from individuals less than, say, $100. Lump all those together and give them to any qualifying 501(c)3 charitable (and non-political!) not-for-profit organization.