During a March 2000 address at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vice President Al Gore said that campaign finance reform is “one of the most important steps we can take to return government to the people.” His father (Al Gore Sr.), Gore asserted, lost a Senate seat in 1970 in part because of “special interest money that was funneled into his opponent’s campaign by the infamous Nixon ‘dirty tricks’ operation.” This event, Gore maintained, has shaped …showed first 75 words of 2194 total…

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