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Donavan McKinney: “The average member of Congress spends about 5% of their…”

Featuring: Donavan McKinney, Michigan House of Representatives, District 11

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CAN DETROIT ELECT A PROGRESSIVE? | Donavan McKinney

Published | Video Starts at 05:22

This is the fifth portion of the restaurant district in the country or something. And so like what's happening is we got a guy in there, he uses his office allotment, taxpayer money to promote himself. So The average member of Congress spends about 5% of their office budget promoting themselves. He spends 11 times that. Jesus, 55%. And so that's why you'll see them on the big billboards you see them on TV year round, you'll see them with big mailers. (05:22–05:30)

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