Matt Gaetz Under Investigation

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(04-08-2021, 09:39 AM)Au165 Wrote: In the 2020 congressional races, of the 28 million given to candidates by lobbyists 23 million went to the incumbents. While the new challenger often needs MUCH larger amounts of money to win the challenger rarely gets the money from lobbyists. 

OK, that is interesting. But I figure if there were term limits or anything of the like, this statistics would change. Lobbyists' money always goes somewhere and I doubt the budgets for buying politicians would get reduced or cut.