City Pages\u00a0<\/em>to cover it before they’d comment!<\/p>\nMITCH: \u00a0Aaron Rupar?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0Aaron RUPAR?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yes…well…<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0Spill it.<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0OK. \u00a0He’s just repeating what Sally Jo Sorenson writes.<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0And?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0Like usual.<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0We’ve talked about this before.<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0I know. \u00a0Anyway – This probably violates campaign finance laws!<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0 Says who?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Sally Jo Sorenson.<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0 Huh. \u00a0Well, on the one hand, pretty much everything you do, and everything you don’t do, violates one campaign finance law or another. \u00a0Campaign finance laws are mainly designed to protect incumbents. \u00a0They make campaigning a niggling, nonsensical regulatory maze, full of arbitrary restrictions on free speech.<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0But it keeps money out of politics!<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0No, it doesn’t!<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Yes it does!<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0How?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0It’s the law!<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0Right. \u00a0So the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, which alone outspent the GOP candidate in 2010, doesn’t spend money?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0That’s different. \u00a0Unions are The People.<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0Oh, for the love of…<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0The laws keep big money from influencing campaigns.<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0Clearly they work wonders.<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0Of course!<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0So here’s a question: \u00a0who’s paying Sally…<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0…whoah, look at the time. \u00a0Gotta get to class! (LIBRELLE dashes into room).<\/p>\n
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