In the long term Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.
There's enormous progressive activism and more often than not success at the grassroots level – everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
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What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.