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April 11, 2016 07:47 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/kr9zuZd_AS8/congresscritters-spend-4-hours.html
Congresscritters spend 4 hours/day on the phone, begging for money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylomy1Aw9HkJohn Oliver is, as always, a flamethrower crisping the Shield of Boringness that protects a corrupt, terrible system: this time, it's Congressional fundraising, which sends our elected reps off-site for four hours a day to a cubicle-filled call-center where they strap on a headset and wheedle strangers for money, and, on every third day, sends them to DC restaurants to host rubber-chicken fundraiser dinners. (more…)
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