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Errr, actually the seven. Since that’s what I could screengrab. Mother Jones calculates how much money incumbents raise per hour on a typical day. (via ymgonzaland endthebushtaxcuts)
The average member of the House of Representatives has to raise $367 for every hour they’re supposedly serving their constituents to pay for their re-election campaigns. The average senator needs to wrangle $819 per hour. …
Data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Assumes 40 hours a week of fundraising, 50 weeks a year, for full term in office. Based on cost of members’ most recent election.
Posted on Monday, June 25th 2012
“They don’t use their title. They don’t refer to their years of service. They don’t show pictures of themselves in committee meetings. They have to acknowledge the anger, the frustration. They’ve got to run as agents of change.”
Posted on Thursday, June 21st 2012
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