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It is not simply a matter of big money in politics. There is big money in all of American life. The more pervasive problem is that we now have self-interested political institutions — the parties — that are considered “too big to fail.” Are we supposed to protect them and their refusal to share power with the people at all costs?

Free Rev. Sharpton…From the Democratic Party
June 5, 2001

My good friend Rev. Al Sharpton is in jail again. There are two places I've tried to keep him out of over the years - prison and the Democratic Party. Obviously, I'm not doing too well on the first goal. What about the second?

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The Way we Live Now, Questions for Lenora Fulani; Odd Bedfellows
June 9, 2000

As a person, first of all, I don't dislike Pat. I wish him well. Just not in the Reform Party. It's not like we spent hours together. We came together out of politics and that's what we did. What we agreed to is that he run on the issue of political reform.

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Talkin Left/Right Coalitions
April 27, 2000

A lot of the talk on the political pundit circuit lately is about how independent presidential candidates will affect the campaigns of the Democrat and the Republican.

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Fear and Loathing on the Left
February 15, 2000

The left's ongoing hysteria over Patrick Buchanan's turn to the Reform Party, and his subsequent endorsement by Reform's progressive Black leader Lenora Fulani, speaks volumes about the state of the American left. It tells us that beneath the anti-Buchanan...

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