How Campaign Finance Reform Could Help Business

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🗓️ 6 September 2012

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cash from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.1	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.5	I'm talking today with Russ Feingold, former Wisconsin Senator, and the founder of
0:38.9	Progressive United, a political action committee that works to limit corporations influence over government.
0:44.4	Senator, thanks so much for talking with us today.
0:47.0	Good to be on the show.
0:48.0	Senator, you're extremely well known for your work on campaign finance reform and I wanted to start our
0:54.4	conversation today there and I thought we just dive in I wanted to ask you about
0:58.7	something I've heard you say before and I'm paraphrasing a little bit here
1:01.8	but I've heard you say before that campaign
1:04.1	finance reform isn't just intended to curtail bribery or the impression of
1:08.4	bribery but also to limit extortion so in other words to put a cap on the amount of money that
1:14.6	candidates could request from private companies. Could you just explain your
1:19.5	thinking on that and how you began to see both sides of that coin.
1:23.0	Exactly.
1:24.0	This is one of these things that really needs to become part of the discussion
1:28.0	about campaign finance reform.
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