"Too Much" weekly on-line, 1/ November/ 2010

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[Excerpt]

The city of Sitka sits on an island off mainland Alaska. Most Americans have no idea Sitka exists. Most of those who do know Sitka likely only know the city as the background for the 2007 bestseller, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, a novel that offered a glimpse of how modern history might have unfolded if European Jews had been offered an Alaskan refuge from Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.

Now Sitka has another claim to fame. The city’s mayor, Scott McAdams, has run a spirited race for the U.S. Senate — and offered a glimpse of how this fall’s elections might have unfolded if candidates took inequality seriously.

“For far too long,” the Democrat McAdams noted in one TV debate, “the United States Senate has been a millionaires club doing the bidding of billionaires.”

Few candidates this fall have so straightforwardly addressed the grand divide between the rich and the rest of us. Why so few? Most candidates, from both major parties, remain deadeningly dependent on rich people's cash. We have more, on that score, in this week’s Too Much.

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