Word: beholdenness
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...actually spent: not much. The more important question in this particular election is how contributed money will affect the way the winner votes once in office. Because of the need to accept money from special interests to stay competitive with the other guy, whoever wins will be even more beholden to special interests when he takes office...
While I would be very sorry to see a Bush in the White House again, I am even more concerned for the fate of our democracy as it becomes ever more dominated by the two major parties, both of whom have undemocratic primary systems, both of whom are beholden to the same corporate financing and both of whom compete for an ever more right wing "undecided voter...
...They're also in charge of Congress, as Speaker wannabe Dick Gephardt was all too happy to point out. "This is not a do-nothing Congress, this is a dysfunctional Congress," Gephardt said afterward, tossing in a "they're beholden to special interests" line just to make sure everybody got the point...
...appeal of Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) and former Sen. Bill Bradley was their almost idealistic commitment to take special interests out of politics. As McCain has noted, without campaign finance reform, it is difficult to expect that a Congress beholden to special interests will enact any of the other necessary legislation that Americans support. Gore has vowed to make campaign finance reform a top priority and has said the McCain-Feingold would be the first piece of legislation passed under his administration. Bush has been thus far unwilling to make this commitment...
Kors says only putting more students and faculty on the board will allow it to make decisions independent of the University. Neither group would be beholden to the interests of the general counsel or the Corporation in the same way that administrators...