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Protesters Dressed as Founding Fathers Crash D.C. Fundraisers

Rolling around the capital in a dark-green trolley Wednesday morning, a troupe of actors dressed as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross visited three D.C. fund-raising hotspots to protest special interests and crusade for the Fair Elections Now Act, a bill that would establish a public funding system for House and Senate elections and limit outside sources of cash for congressional campaigns. "We cast off the yoke of British tyranny, and today we are called on again to cast off the yoke of British Petroleum," an actor playing Thomas Jefferson said outside the ...

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