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Alsadius91 karma
Laws cannot overturn Citizens United - it was a Constitutional decision, so you'd need to amend the Constitution. Which requires even more elected officials who agree with you, naturally.
Alsadius77 karma
Because he isn't being paid to do it. There's no explicit quid pro quo, nor even really an implicit one in most of these cases.
People hire ex-political figures as lobbyists all the time, but only friendly ones - Comcast might hire Pai, but Google sure wouldn't, and you wouldn't expect them to. He's made a big public stand strongly against their interests, and thus he's not a reliable ally.
Alsadius67 karma
And if he wants to feed money to his kids, why not just donate it to his son's Senatorial campaigns? Nobody would bat an eye at that.
Alsadius222 karma
Hear hear.
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