By RICHARD BADALAMENTE
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Initiative 735 is needed to fix campaign finance issues

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Last updated 9/22/2016 at 12:08pm



The feigned outrage over the Clinton Foundation by Republican operatives is the height of hypocrisy, but most people won’t realize this.

“Never heard of it.” This was a response I got all too often as I went door-to-door as a volunteer collecting signatures for I-735, a grassroots movement to make Washington the 18th state to ask Congress to overturn Citizens United. It was disheartening to learn that so many people knew so little about something so important.

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in the 2010 Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission (FEC), gave corporations an...



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