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MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - 8 October 2010: Rachel emphasizes the most important issue involved in the mad-scientist right-wing Art Robinson. UNLIMITED campaign donations from anonymous sources. Robinson allegedly believes in "hormesis," low levels of radiation are good for you, believes he has disproved man-made climate change, and makes money off home-schooling DVDs that are based on racist 19th-century author, G.A. Henty, believing public schools should be abolished.
RACHEL: "What is really important about Art Robinson is not just how unusual he is as an American or as a candidate. What is important about Art Robinson is that he is potentially viable this year as a Congressional candidate... because of this..."
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"Concerned Taxpayers of America. That group is running $150,000 worth of that ad in this rural district in southern Oregon to make Art Robinson seem totally mainstream, totally electable. $150,000 from lord knows where. Concerned Taxpayers of America doesn't have to tell anybody where the money is from that is running that ad. The only thing we know about where the money is coming from to try to promote this man's candidacy, to try to make him not just the guy who lives in the self-declared scientific institute distributing racist children's books on the edge of town, but rather a viable Congressional candidate, the only thing we know about Concerned Taxpayers of America is THIS:
This piece of paper filed with the Federal Elections Commission, this is it. This is the sum-total of Concerned Taxpayers of America's existence. In this filing, the Concerned Taxpayers of America helpfully notes nothing about their donors, nothing about where they intend to raise money from.
They only note that they intend to 'raise funds in unlimited amounts...'- snip -
What if it were $500,000? What if it were a million dollars? What if it were 150 million dollars?
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We are not allowed to know. That's just how it works now."