Super PAC Backer Says Big Money Entitles Donors to Campaign "Oversight"
Huge Jeb Bush donor Al Hoffman explains how he and his cohort see their money as buying them seats on the board of a corporation they control.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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