Melat Kiros Credits Win over Opponent’s Acceptance of Donations from Corporations and Special Interest Groups

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KIROS: "You know, it’s not the congresswoman herself. It’s the campaign finance system that has incentivized members of Congress like Diana DeGette, to take millions of dollars from big pharma, big energy and oil, defense contractors. At the end of the day, the reason why we are not seeing legislation like Medicare-for-All and universal child care and an arms embargo on Israel passed despite a supermajority of support from the voters of this party is because when corporations and special interests donate to campaigns, it’s not that they’re going to get an immediate return with legislation that is favored for them, but sometimes the return that they get is stalling on legislation that would actually make a meaningful difference for families. And so at the end of the day, the only way we can trust that the Congress members are actually fighting for that kind of legislation is to not be taking money from the very corporations and special interests that do not want to see that kind of legislation from passing. In fact, the National Nurses United policy director said as much about the congresswoman’s co-sponsorship of Medicare-for-all while also taking money from the very health insurance companies that would be legislated out of existence. We can’t trust that that kind of donations coming in for Congress members isn’t going to result in some kind of return, and sometimes that return is that we're not actually going to get anything done."