In his effort to convince voters to send him to the U.S. Senate, Chris Pappas, who currently represents the eastern half of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives, has begun touting an agenda to keep big money out of politics.
“One of the major issues that we’re hearing about everywhere across New Hampshire is how we confront the culture of corruption in Washington, how we address the influence of big money in our political system, which is so corrosive to our democracy,” Pappas said at an event in Manchester last week. “And we’ve got to clean house in order for us to be able to make progress on the things that people are counting on.”
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