Cenk Uygur
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Republican Jim Rubens fights DC establishment, empowers small donors in run for US Senate
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3:36Now PlayingNot all Republican candidates are all bad all the time. Jim Rubens is a Republican Senate candidate who is very vocal in his opposition to corruption and money in politics. He even acknowledges that Middle East wars have failed to make us safe. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"On paper, Jim Rubens doesn’t sound like a Republican Senate candidate. For one thing, he believes that US wars in the Middle East have backfired and spread terrorism, apostasy among Beltway Republicans. Rather than lay out any sweeping conservative “vision,” his campaign platform details a long list of wonky policy proposals that are hard to pin down ideologically, like his plan to break up cable and internet monopolies. Or his plan to unilaterally eliminate land based nuclear weapons. On top of that, he has promised to fight the influence of money in politics, a position that until recently would have been a disqualifier for any candidate claiming to be a conservative…
But 2016 is shaping up to be the year that political finance reform becomes a major campaign issue, thanks to a new crop of advocacy groups and Super PACS dedicated to reducing the corrupting role of money in elections. Rubens has been riding that wave, railing against both Big Government and Big Business, and accusing his opponents of being “career politicians” beholden to Wall Street and other special interests.”*
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