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Colin Allred: “In my time in Congress, I never took a single dime of…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 08:25

And we have a real problem with that in Texas because it's not just that it's wrong that we have some folks who I would consider to be unacceptably corrupt, but it's also that it costs you more money. And you know, In my time in Congress, I never took a single dime of corporate PAC money. I never, you know, had traded a single stock, never had anything that anyone could even, you know, point to to have anything other than that. (08:25–08:31)

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Asserts that he did not accept corporate PAC money during his congressional tenure.

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