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A crowd of protesters gathered at the Arlington headquarters of ALEC last week to demand that Dominion Resources, the parent of public utility monopoly Dominion Virginia Power, drop its membership in the right wing "bill mill." On the very same day, a jury convicted ex-Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife on federal corruption charges, setting off a new round of debate about Virginia's lax ethics laws. The two news items sound like different topics, but in fact they are both about the corruption undermining our democratic system.
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