"People across the political spectrum are demanding that billionaires not be able to buy American democracy," says Sanders, noting that 16 states and more than 600 communities have called on Congress to begin the process of amending the Constitution to say that money is not speech, corporations are not people and citizens and their elected representatives have a right to organize elections where votes matter more than dollars.
Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate, has been encouraged to seek the presidency in 2016.
Sanders is still in the process of deciding whether to run--and how. Though he has run all of his US House and Senate campaigns as an independent, the Vermonter might enter the Democratic primaries as a challenger to presumed front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Bernie Sanders will not, however, be entering "the Koch brothers primary."
More importantly, he is challenging "the money primary" mentality that has made the Kochs and their kind outsized players in American politics.
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