I didn't have the money for a conventional con- gressional campaign; I had to make up for it with hard work. But I was determined to show them. People had to know that it was possible for someone with decency and a fighting spirit to overcome the system by beating it with its own weapons. For years in Brooklyn and New York City and Albany, I had watched the rotten political system that stands in the way of change, because its operators are beneficiaries of the status quo. They are committed against change, because they have things wired for their benefit now; changing the system to benefit the
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