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Pete Buttigieg: “The Montana Corrupt Practices Act in 1912 stood for nearly a…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete's Opening Message, Live from Butte, Montana

Published | Video Starts at 15:04

But the most important thing about the copper kings. Is that they didn't get the last word. The people of Montana did. And you did it through a ballot initiative. The Montana Corrupt Practices Act in 1912 stood for nearly a hundred years. It stood through decades. It stood through generations. No bully, no corporation, no copper kingpin. Could take down the Corrupt Practices Act. Until it ran into the Roberts Court in 2010. (15:04–15:08)

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