'They want to hear, ‘Are you down for me?' And the only way that you can truly be down for people, for communities, is to not take money from corporations. I firmly believe that.' –mh4oh
not to accept money from “registered lobbyists or individuals who are employed by a payday lender or firearm manufacturer.”
“I believe we have let politics get to a place, even among Democratic representatives, where there's just way too much money floating around,” she said. “I do believe you lose sight of the first responsibility of being a representative, which is to the people that you are serving.” Harper added that funding her campaign through small donors — as Senator Bernie Sanders did during his 2016 presidential run — is critical to engage people who may have given up on politics.
“They want to hear, ‘Are you down for me?’” Harper said. “And the only way that you can truly be down for people, for communities, is to not take money from corporations. I firmly believe that.”“I do take some PAC money because it’s so important for me to be in the room,” she told“I get a little offended, and I’m only speaking for me, when people say if somebody writes me a thousand-dollar check or a $2 check or a $2,000 check, that they own me. My record speaks for itself.
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