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Trevor Potter 'Everything Depends on Fixing Campaign Finance'

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Former FEC Chair and Nonresident Senior Fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings institute, Trevor Potter spoke at the Chautauqua 2013 lecture series on 'Markets, Morals and the Social Contract.' The lecture focused on the ever expanding role of money in politics and the unique challenges America faces in a post-Citizens United world.

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