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The Ticket: The Past, Present and Future of Campaign Finance

This week on The Ticket: The Tribune's Jay Root and KUT's Ben Philpott dive into the billions of dollars flowing through our campaign finance system.

By Ben Philpott, KUT News, and Jay Root, The Texas Tribune
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The Ticket was a weekly look at presidential politics from a Texas perspective in the leadup to the 2016 election. It included veteran political reporters Jay Root of The Texas Tribune and Ben Philpott of KUT News. Find it on SoundCloud and Stitcher. 

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This week on The Ticket: The Tribune's Jay Root and KUT's Ben Philpott dive into the billions of dollars flowing through our campaign finance system. They give a history of campaign finance to explain what led to past regulations. And they examine how the unchecked millions flowing through Super PACs has affected the 2016 race for the White House.

 

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